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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Fun Through Fantasy and Narrative
An interesting topic came up in a recent game design class. We were talking about various types of fun after trying to define fun itself (which, by the way, is...
From Putting People First
From people to prototypes and products: ethnographic liquidity and the Intel Global Aging Experience study
The latest Intel Technology Journal (Volume 13, Issue 30 reports the research and development activities of the Intel Digital Health Group and its colleagues. One...
From Schneier on Security
Body Cavity Scanners
At least one company is touting its technology: Nesch, a company based in Crown Point, Indiana, may have a solution. It’s called diffraction-enhanced X-ray imaging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Arithmetic Stifles Creativity
Long division no longer taught, stifles student creativity. Make sure your batteries are fresh. ' ...Only 57% of college freshman at the University of Washington...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Docs to Host All File Types
In an interesting development Google says it will host all file types up to 250 MB in size. Sharing large files is always a problem. This will surely put some...
From Putting People First
Design for sustainable behaviour (part 3)
Can design change behavior? Although at times it can seem difficult to change just one person
From Schneier on Security
Airplane Security Commentary
Excellent commentary from The Register: As the smoke clears following the case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the failed Christmas Day "underpants bomber" of Northwest...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Creating the Expertise We Need
By now you have likely received the January issue of the CSTA Voice and discovered the exciting NSF plans for growing 10,000 new CS teachers and reaching 10,000...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hive Thinking
Jaron Lanier in the NYT. We were introduced to him and his Virtual Reality work years ago at the Institute for the Future. Some good points in the article, though...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives
New material has been posted on the website for the Library of Congress symposium hosted by CCC in spring 2009.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Small Business Tools at CES
A review of new small and mobile business tools from the Consumer Electronics Show. Nothing revolutionary, but a number of improvements shown.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Hub
Former colleague Rich Kiley has plans to make Cincinnati a world marketing hub. ' ... The fledgling effort to position Cincinnati as a world center for consumer...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The fundamental properties of computing
Physics works with fundamental properties such as mass, speed, acceleration, energy, and so on. Quantum mechanics has a well known trade-off between position and...
From Computational Complexity
ICS I: snapshots and the longer view (guest post)
(Guest Post by Rahul Santhanam) Title: ICS I : Snapshots & The Longer View 1. Local Arrangements: Kudos to the organizing committee for going far beyond...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Brute Force or is there an easy way?
This year being ‘10 has lead to a lot of talk about numbers that look like binary numbers 1/11/10 or 11110 for example. Related to this is talk about palindrome...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-13
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China Google doubtless understands that the Chinese government don't respond well to public...
From My Biased Coin
Algorithms and Data Structures : Course Goals
Richard Lipton has an excellent blog post up right now on "What should a course on complexity theory cover?" where he describes what he is putting in his graduate...
From Putting People First
The world in 2020: A glimpse into the future
Ten years ago we thought wireless was another word for radio, Peter Mandelson’s career was over
From My Biased Coin