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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
CRA 2015 Undergraduate Researchers Award Winners!
The Education Committee of the Computing Research Association (CRA-E) have announced the winners of the 2015 Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award. This year’s...
From Schneier on Security
Reacting to the Sony Hack
First we thought North Korea was behind the Sony cyberattacks. Then we thought it was a couple of hacker guys with an axe to grind. Now we think North Korea is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 December 2014
Christmas vacation for me. I love my students but I sure do need a break right now. Like a lot of teachers I can use the time to catch up with things at home and...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Modulating the Permanent
When does it become hard to compute? Thomas Muir coined the term “permanent” as a noun in his treatise on determinants in 1882. He took it from Augustin Cauchy’s...
From XRDS
Health 2.0: the digital health revolution
Diana Lynn MacLeanIn the U.S., although medical records contain patient information, medical providers---including hospitals---own all patient records, which can...
From XRDS
Staying in touch: how print and digital media can further student chapter outreach
Claudia Schulz
From XRDS
Gathering people to gather data
Diana Lynn MacLeanAn interview with Paul Wicks, Vice President of Innovation at PatientsLikeMe, a patient network and real-time research platform.
From XRDS
Opportunities of social media in health and well-being
Munmun De ChoudhuryIntelligently leveraging data from millions of social media posts is a modern public health approach that has the potential to save many lives...
From XRDS
Here comes the #engagement: a serious health initiative made trendy
Fay Cobb Payton, KaMar GallowayCreating a user experience to communicate the seriousness of HIV prevention and awareness can be both educational while entertaining...
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Challenges in personal health tracking: the data isn't enough
Matthew KayIncreasingly, personal health data can be tracked and integrated from numerous streams quickly and easily, but our feedback lingers in the land of "show...
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Did I take my meds today?
Matthew L. LeePeople tend to believe they are more aware of their own health behaviors than they really are. In this article, we present technologies that employ...
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Seeing is believing
Megan MonroeWhy visualization will play a critical role in bringing big data decision making to a hospital bed near you.
From XRDS