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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Software performance is… counterintuitive
There is a long tradition among computer scientists of counting the number of operations as a way to estimate the running cost of an algorithm. Many computer scientists...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
On Being a Software Developer
Recently Mark Guzdial had a post called High school CS teachers need to read and trace code, not develop software that got me thinking along some new lines. Working...
From Schneier on Security
GCHQ Intercept Sites in Oman
Last June, the Guardian published a story about GCHQ tapping fiber-optic Internet cables around the globe, part of a program codenamed TEMPURA. One of the facts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coaching Versus Managing
In The HBR Blog: " ... Ask 100 people if they have good common sense, and more than 95% will tell you they do. Ask them if they are good coaches, and almost as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G, Pepsi Try Foursquare Swarm
In Adage: Looked at Foursquare in its early days. Interesting that some giants in marketing space are trying the new functionality. " ... Now the company is calling...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/DIMACS Workshop for Aspiring PIs in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace
The Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), founded as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, has...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What caught my attention lately: Fun data: "How to tell someone's age when all you know is her name" ([1]) "The possibility of proper tricorder technology in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data, Charted, Noted
A Gartner hypecycle view of Big Data, among a number of other technologies. And Google live search summary. Interesting, but the meaning itself is largely overblown...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nestle Moves Towards Science
In Reuters: Seems everyone is moving away from food and towards health products. Which they oddly call science here. There is science about food products too.
From Apophenia
Will my grandchildren learn to drive? I expect not
I rarely drive these days, and when I do, it’s bloody terrifying. Even though I grew up driving and drove every day for fifteen years, my lack of practice is palpable...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Principles Summit–Virtually
In case you are not a CSTA member (why not?) and didn’t get the email this looks pretty interesting. In a new twist for 2014, CSTA is thrilled to invite youvirtual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personal Power Plants
In IEEE Spectrum: Fascinating direction. " .... Smart and agile power systems will let every home and business generate, store, and share electricity. ......
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU Robotics Program
A new Civilian Robotics program in Europe. " ... This initiative is expected to create over 240,000 jobs in Europe, and increase Europe’s share of the global...
From Computational Complexity
STOC 2014
At the just completed STOC conference I received the 2014 SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize. Part of this citation reads"His blog, and many others that followed...
From Schneier on Security
Edward Snowden Wins EPIC "Champion of Freedom" Award
On Monday I had the honor of presenting Edward Snowden with a "Champion of Freedom" award at the EPIC dinner. Snowden couldn't be there in person -- his father...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cyber Grand Challenge Announces 1st Group of Teams
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced the first group of teams from the Cyber Grand Challenge. The DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ISSIP: Services Innovation in an Interconnected World
Newly brought to my attention: ISSP: Providing Service Innovation for our Interconnected World: " ... Service innovations improve the quality-of-life of individuals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MOOCs and Traditional Business Education
In Knowledge@Wharton: Talk and transcript. Interesting points are made. Changes are occurring, but the speed and extent are still debatable. Certainly the"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Big Data at Work
Not a bad generalized overview of how Big Data is being used today, including some useful corporate examples. No details, but might be useful for an executiveReviewing...
From Computer Science Teachers Association