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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Google to Add Store Views
Google is apparently going to add 'store views' to its valuable 'street views', attached by location to its maps. More here. I am assuming with permission, but...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Peter Lee on the future of DARPA, and the Transformational Convergence Technology Office
Five months ago, Peter Lee took a leave of absence as Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University to begin a stint at DARPA as the Director...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper App Adds Barcode Scanner
Another development that brings the smartphone closer to everyday use as a sensor by the consumer. I recently reviewed the updates to the Redlaser scanner and found...
From My Biased Coin
Admissions Handling
I've been spending time on both graduate admissions and undergraduate admissions.For graduate admissions, we've moved to an all-electronic system; the applications...
From Computational Complexity
The more things change the more things change
There have been some articles on how much things have changed because of technology. One from the Washington Post Magazine, titled Going, Going, ..., Gone lists...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Function Creep
Security is rarely static. Technology changes both security systems and attackers. But there
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Facebook Development
One of the things that came up from the panel I was on last week (that panel has prompted a bunch of blog and Twitter posts already) was that students like relevant...
From The Noisy Channel
Report on the Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
Note: this post will also appear on BLOG@CACM. It is my pleasure to report on the 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), a gathering of information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superbowl Ad Biometrics
Good Wired article on a number of ad biometrics studies being done during the Superbowl, which has increasingly become a laboratory for non conscious neuromarketing...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Game Day at Carleton University
Game Day is an an annual event at Carleton University. It's a day full of lectures on various game industry topics, a LAN party, and one of many Global Game Jam...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Channels plus Context
Evan Schuman put out a good post on channels and the effect of context. Worth a full read. My thoughts on this: The original idea of the innovation centers was...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Getting Students to Test Their Programs
Animations and creation of games really does motivate students. Doesn't every student assume they can take an introductory computer science course and get a job...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Optimizes
Alison Bolen in SAScom Voices posts about Nine Optimization Lessons from Target. " ... how Target uses guest intelligence to optimize marketing and merchandising...
From Computational Complexity
Time Space Tradeoffs for SAT- good resuls but...
This is a real conversation between BILL and STUDENT (a Software Engineering Masters Student who knows some theory). As such there are likely BETTER arguments BILL...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where to get your ebooks?
If you read my blog, you probably like to read in general. Thus, if you don’t own an ebook device, you will soon. The choice is growing: the Amazon Kindle, the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Programming Language to Teach First?
Have you ever been asked a question that you have been asked time and again but suddenly decided you have a different answer for? One of the questions I hear aDon...
From Schneier on Security
Anonymity and the Internet
Universal identification is portrayed by some as the holy grail of Internet security. Anonymity is bad, the argument goes; and if we abolish it, we can ensure only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redlaser: Scanning Faster
I have been closely following scanner smartphone Apps that read barcodes by utilizing the phones's camera. In particular the Redlaser App has gone through a number...
From The Noisy Channel