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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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Gladys West: Where’s my satellite? Where’s my child? #BlackHistoryMonth
Gladys West solved the maths problems behind the positioning of satellites. She worked closely with programmers to write the code to do calculations based on her...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science – problem-solving brain teasers
Imagine being able to pick up an ordinary banana and use it as a phone. That's part of the vision of 'invoked computing', which is being developed by Japanese researchers...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Cold hard complexity: learning to talk in nature’s language
Think of an ecosystem like a sentence – there are thousands of words in the English language but in order to make a sentence you have to put them together in the...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Love your data
Some councils put up 'Ignore your sat nav' signs because drivers kept relying more on the wrong information from electronic directions instead of trusting their...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Delicious computing: gestural computing with bananas and pizzas…
Imagine being able to pick up an ordinary banana and use it as a phone. That's part of the vision of 'invoked computing', which is being developed by Japanese researchers...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Hiding in Skype: cryptography and steganography
Computer Science isn't just about using language, sometimes it's about losing it. Sometimes people want to send messages so no one even knows they exist and a great...
From Apophenia
Some Thoughts on Technophilia
The New Media Consortium is hosting a Symposium for the Future October 27-29. I was asked to write a few thoughts that might provoke conversation in preparation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Good are Mashups Anyway?
Interesting piece on the nature of mashups. Oddly I have seen less about the idea of late, but think its a good concept. " ... A new breed of Web-based data integration...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM