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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Overcoming the Isolation of the Computer Science Teacher
This morning I had a conversation with the other computer science teacher at my school. I told him I wasn't sure what to use for an exercise for my students inLocal...
From Apophenia
What does the Facebook experiment teach us?
I’m intrigued by the reaction that has unfolded around the Facebook “emotion contagion” study. (If you aren’t familiar with this, read this primer.) As others have...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Do Your Students Still Surprise You?
As my year concluded I was reflecting on the students, my courses, and the changes I need to make for next year. I was thinking about what students surprised me...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Remembering Ann Yasuhara
Ann will be missed Ann Yasuhara was a mathematician and a complexity theorist, who passed away this June 11th. She lived over half of her 82 years in Princeton,...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Remembering Ann Yasuhara
Ann will be missed Ann Yasuhara was a mathematician and a complexity theorist, who passed away this June 11th. She lived over half of her 82 years in Princeton,...
From Schneier on Security
How Traffic Shaping Can Help the NSA Evade Legal Oversight
New research paper on how the NSA can evade legal prohibitions against collecting Internet data and metadata on Americans by forcing domestic traffic to leave and...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Seeks Members for Cloud Computing Working Groups
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking for individuals from industry, government, and academia to participate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Scene Modeling
In the CACM: This tool looks very similar to work we did with a large technology company around 2000. How do you take normally flat surveillance footage from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Age of Context: Sensors, Data and Privacy
Starting to read, very good so far, more coverage later.Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy Paperbackby Robert Scoble and Shel Israel...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Don't Panic
I originally wrote this (for the CSTA blog) near the start of the last school year. I have to say though that as this year ends and I am fired up about preparing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Staples and the Future Home
In ReadwriteWeb: Staples not an expected participant in the idea, but have been in the past been impressed by their forward orientation. Have not examined yet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Obvious Patents
Evan Schuman on patenting the obvious. He says the Supreme Court did not go far enough, but this gives judges the opportunity to do the right thing.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC and CRA Add New Members
Today, July 1, new talents were added to the ranks of both the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council and the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FleetRisk Advisors for Predictive Risk
At the recent Big Data and Analytics Summit I attended a talk and had a chat with Vikas Jain of FleetRisk Advisors. I had worked some similar projects with several...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Final Thoughts–ISTE 2014
There is still one more day for ISTE but today was the last day for me. My brain is full and I am tired so I am ok with missing another day. ISTE is a huge conference...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 30
July 1 Field Hearing: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a field hearing on Internet rules to foster competition. 10 a.m., Davis Center at the University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Assists with Recipes
A strong area of interest of mine as well. Note again the assistant mode of expertise delivery:" ... IBM has found a new partner for its supercomputer called Watson...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Resources: Wolfram Programming in the Cloud
Last week I posted about Wolfram's in the Cloud implementation of what they are calling 'Knowledge-Based Programming'. I have been asked by a client to explore...
From The Eponymous Pickle