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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 Community Consortium Announces New Council Members and Executive Committee
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed six new members to the Computing Community Consortium...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Annual Conference Reminder
If you haven't yet registered for the CSTA Annual Conference, time is running short. The conference takes place in St. Charles, Illinois (west of Chicago) on July...
From Schneier on Security
Feedly Victim of DDOS Blackmail
So far they're resisting. Evernote and Deezer are also suffering attacks. I haven't seen anything linking the three different victims, and the other two have not...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Instacart Shared Economy
Instacart brings "sharing economy" model to the supermarket. In the NYT.Instacart is bringing a business model of the "sharing economy" to the supermarket, using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning How Memories are Made
We continue to slowly learn how memories are planted in the brain. This could further lead to the stronger interaction between brain and machine. In Nature: "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BOI Solutions at Ten Years and Beyond
I have now worked with them for years. BOI Solutions brings together expertise in IT, Multi-media components, content delivery technology, networks and automated...
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks from Remote Controlled Smart Devices
We're starting to see a proliferation of smart devices that can be controlled from your phone. The security risk is, of course, that anyone can control them from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chatbots Tricking You
In the BBC: This is not new, has been going on for some time, but there is a new level of sophistication being seen. This is also related to the recent Turing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dell Diversifies the Supply Chain
I have not looked at Dell Computer for some time, was reintroduced to some of their high performance computing offerings. And here, more about their supply chain...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
That Was (Not) Easy
Someone mentioned in a comment somewhere (I wish I could find a link) that sometimes they create a project for students that they haven’t built themselves first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Digital Principles
In McKinsey: Digitization is rewriting the rules of competition, with incumbents most at risk of being left behind. Here are six critical decisions CEOs must make...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Will Big Data Grow Up?
In the HBR. Not unlike other heavily hyped technologies. Have ridden several. It's also finding itself attached to a new kind of user: An Internet of Things....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets Become More Important than PCs Were
Some interesting statistics and graphs. Well, yes, for convenience. But if we were to normalize this with the stats of the emergence of the smartphone as well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diabetics App with Image Analysis
In CACM: An innovative diabetics App. " ... A smartphone-based system developed by researchers at the University of Bern makes it easier for diabetics to plan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Test Breakthrough, Could Mr Clean do Better?
The Turing Test is the classic test for AI. Can a machine consistently fool a person into thinking it is a person rather than a machine? Article claims that just...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Fulbright Israel Post-Doctoral Fellowship: a computer scientist’s story
The United States-Israel Educational Foundation, the Fulbright commission for Israel, offers fellowships to American post-doctoral researchers in support of work...
From Computational Complexity
Fair question? Trick question?
The following problem was on my final for Formal Lang theory (Reg, P, NP, Dec, c.e.) For this problem you may assume P\ne NP and NP\ne coNP. For each of the following...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterpise Mobile Apps
In BaselineMag: The tradeoff between using enterprise developed apps, nicreasingly provided in large companies and consumer available applications. Slide show...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson