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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Research Initiatives for the 21st Century
Today’s main message is: Check out http://www.cra.org/ccc/initiatives. Please! And tell your friends and colleagues! (Any reactions or suggestions can be posted...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case (Update 1)
(See update 2.) In a recent blog post, I said that parsing simple CSV files could be CPU bound. By parsing, I mean reading the data on disk and copying it into...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Urges Obama To Include Computer Science As A Core Component Of Science And Math Education
Yesterday President-Elect Obama announced his intention to nominate Arne Duncan for the Secretary of Education. Mr. Duncan is currently CEO of Chicago's school...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast argmax in Python
In my post Computing argmax fast in Python, I reported that Python has no builtin function to compute argmax, the position of a maximal value. I provided one such...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Synthese Recommender System
Andre Vellino has just opened his Synthese Recommender System: a recommender for journal articles. Andre works for one of the largest scientific libraries in the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case
(These results were updated.) In Parsing text files is CPU bound, I claimed that I had a C++ test case proving that parsing CSV files could be CPU bound. By CPU...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why is the free market letting us down?
I often lean on the right politically. The idea that the free market will work is compelling. Free markets may be good at generating some form of wealth, but as...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 15
FOSDEM Video RecordingsListing of videos of all the advertised talks at FOSDEM for the last few years.New Paper Shredder Actually Recycles Paper at the OfficeThis...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to December 13
Alpinisms: School Of Seven BellsCaptivating music in a style I can't quite pin down. Was sucked in by an interview and the track "Half Asleep" which is a free download...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Real World Learning in a Web Design Class
I started teaching web design to students when the World Wide Web started to explode in 1994. Back then my students used HTML and notepad to create the school's...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 12
Linux - Stop holding our kids backThe teacher in this case has the tone of someone who tried religion once at college and now is an ardent atheist. Sadly, the campaigner...
From Wild WebMink
Celebrating Anniversaries
This has been a time for anniversaries. It's been 25 years since Richard Stallman started the GNU Project, 40 years since Doug Engelbart demonstrated the future...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to December 10
HearFromYourMPBritish? Sign up to hear from your MP about local issues, and to discuss them with other constituents.Did Coldplay copy Joe Satriani?Whether theyColdplay...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
New Math and Science Study Shows Rising Elementary Math Scores, Significant Challenges
Yesterday the National Center for Education Statistics released the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). This study assesses math...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Students Do Not Take APCS
I recently heard a statistic that 30% of the students who take AP Computer Science go on to major in computer science in college. While this may sound like an...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 9
Happy The Man: The Guggenheim GrottoNew Guggenheim Grotto album, sounds pretty good (only on Amazon US so far, sorry everyone else).Dr. Dobb's - What's Open About...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to December 5
The End Of Online AnonymityI've always said that anonymity is a privilege to be justified and treasured and Sarah Perez seems to support that view her in her discussion...
From insideHPC
Time to Learn Functional
Credit to Multicoreinfo.com for the pointer to this article by Michael Swaine for Dr. Dobb’s that examines functional programming’s merits (and demerits) Michael...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog