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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teachers Association
20% and Open Doors
I recently read Ken Auletta's book Googled, about the creation and rise of Google. I read it as both a techno-geek and as an educator. There were two particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking Smartphone Tags
I happened on a demonstration of Talking Tag by Air Arts via Ven Cheva while I was in Chicago yesterday. A clever and simple idea that attaches an audio track (or...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Learning Computer Science and Algorithms with Augmented Reality
This is the third and last post in a three-part series of design proposals for augmented reality learning applications. These are from a paper I wrote in my computers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Products from Procter
From the WSJ: Expect a flurry of new products from P&G: ' Robert McDonald, CEO of Procter & Gamble, said the company's growth strategies "are starting to work"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
World's Most Addictive Sounds Discovered
From Martin Lindstrom: Analyzing sounds" ... The article probes the results of a new 9-month study conducted by the New York Buyology Inc., team, in partnership...
From Schneier on Security
Al-Mabhouh Assassination
It reads like a very professional operation: Security footage of the killers' movements during the afternoon, released by police in Dubai yesterday, underlines...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Nostalgia
Last week someone on the SIGCSE mailing list mentioned that they learned to program in FORTRAN, using punch cards on an IBM 1130. Well so did I and I said so. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and Dating
Steve King reports on Data and Dating in Small Biz Labs. The topic has always been of interest to me. I worked with some matching algorithms in the enterprise,...
From Putting People First
Design bugs out
The Design Council and the Department of Health partner to combat the spread of infection in U.K. hospitals. David Sokol reports in Metropolis Magazine. “Patients...
From Computational Complexity
A problem about Graph Partitions (guest post)
(Guest post from Richard Taylor who requests information on a problem.) The following graph partition problem arises in connection with studies I am doing on...
From Schneier on Security
Opening Locks with Foil Impressioning
Interesting blog post, with video demonstration, about an improved tool to open high security locks with a key that will just "form itself" if you insert it into...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-18
Who Owns Your PC? New Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update "Phones Home" to Microsoft Every 90 Days It's bad enough to buy a product and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cheating In Computer Science Classes
This story on cheating in Computer Science classes is one of those things that really makes you think. Years ago one of my students was so tired of students looking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery Barcode Scanning Comparison
For a research investigation I have been comparing smartphone-based 2D barcode scanners using an IPhone 3G. Specifically for typical grocery scans of multiple items...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NBC, the Olympics and the Internet
A considerable criticism of NBC's use of the Internet to provide coverage of the Vancouver Olympics. I have done only a little of searching around for alternative...
From Putting People First
BBC
During a keynote address at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Erik Huggers, the BBC Director of Future Media and Technology, shared his plans to make BBC Online...
From Putting People First
English via your mobile
The BBC reports on Janala, a service that is revolutionising the teaching of English in Bangladesh using simple mobile technology. “Janala – it means Window –...
From Schneier on Security
Bruce Schneier Facebook Page
I finally have control of my Facebook page. There'll be nothing on it that isn't on my blog, but some of you might prefer following my writing from there. (ITwitter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insincere Flattery can Work
Roger Dooley reports on a recent study that appears to show is ' .. that even when we realize we are being flattered, and
From Computational Complexity