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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
Navigating the Future, Today
Sorry I saw this very late, someone should have sent it to me! On a TED talk by Christopher Ahlberg, who worked with us on the question of how to understand and...
From Geeking with Greg
The problem with personalized education
Personalized education has had some spectacular failures lately, in large part due to how tone-deaf the backers have been to the needs of teachers, parents, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Google's Quantum Computer.
Google has been working on the idea for some time, including testing the D-Wave computer mentioned here a number of times. Now some interesting details about the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Preferences for Autonomous Control
Some research that seems to indicate how people think about robots that take control. We will ultimately have to deal with these questions." ... If a company wants...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 8
Congress has returned from recess, so hearings have resumed. September 9 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Cool New Science Show for Kids on TVO
I recently checked out the pilot episode for a new science show that premiered on TVO called Annedroids. Although I found one of the characters overly annoying...
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Payment Security
Apple is including some sort of automatic credit-card payment system with the iPhone 6. They're using some security feature of the phone and system to negotiate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 September 2014
Busy busy last week. I feel like I am getting back into the rhythm of school but grading takes up a good bit of time. As it always does. Still enjoying working@...
From Putting People First
Experientia @ Epic 2014: focusing on relationships and values
It’s that time of year again, when ethnography professionals come together to exchange knowledge, discuss ideas, and share experiences about the practice of ethnography...
From Putting People First
How to see into the future
Billions of dollars are spent on experts who claim they can forecast what’s around the corner, in business, finance and economics. Most of them get it wrong. Now...
From Putting People First
11 reasons computers can’t understand or solve our problems without human judgement
It is true that our ability to collect, analyse and interpret data about the world has advanced to an astonishing degree in recent years, writes Rick Robinson,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stress Detection from Google Glass
In Engadget: Saw similar work at MIT in previous years, and tested the use of affective sensors attached to glasses to detect emotional reaction to product in context...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Magic via Big Data and MagicBand
Interesting examples of a company providing magic via big data. Disney, quite an entertainment colossus now, is known for leveraging emerging technology. Only"...
From My Biased Coin
Teaching Sorting
For many years now, while teaching the introductory Algorithms and Data Structures, I have told students that we won't be starting with (or really covering) sorting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of Build it Yourself Software
In GigaOM: This has been happening for a long time, but recent excursions through enterprise halls show this is becoming more true. Much less is being purpose...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advisory System for Recipes
Bon Appetit articles on the use of advisory systems to build or enhance food recipes. Including a number of actual recipes created this way. Are the creative?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Retiring InMaps
We were exposed to this tool some time ago as a means to gain insight into corporate structure. Now Linkedin is retiring it. Would like to hear of cases where...
From Putting People First
Nudging and behavioral regulation gaining interest across Europe
Behavioral regulation is afoot in Europe and is drawing the interest of a growing number of OECD countries. Professor Alberto Alemanno has just posted a brief overview...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Updating Our Address in the Galaxy
I like to know my address. GPS now provides me with one accurate location metric. Now Nature reports on another measure: " ... Earth's new address: 'Solar System...
From The Eponymous Pickle