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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 Geeking with Greg
Project Euler and blending math and computer science for education
Project Euler is a simple and surprisingly good educational tool for a blend of computer science and math. Highly recommended. You are given a problem (good examples...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Character Animation for Story Telling
In the CACM: On animation, rately used, but can be powerful for making points with process and data. Or for producing a story board of human behavior (abstract)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Technology v Brand Loyalty
In the HBR: Fundamental question, with an interesting discussion. " ... Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty? ... Does the ability of consumers to...
From Schneier on Security
The Human Side of Heartbleed
The announcement on April 7 was alarming. A new Internet vulnerability called Heartbleed could allow hackers to steal your logins and passwords. It affected a piece...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Matter of Focus
My students are wrapping up the year with final projects. For the most part these are great learning experiences. Sometimes though students get hung up on the wrong...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Butlers
A long followed topic. Doing common home tasks is very difficult to do robotically. The classic 'robotic butler' task has been much talked, but rarely delivered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Cheaply Done
MJ Perry describes an example where an individual has been much more efficient than the government. Here scanning documents. Many more examples like this exist...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
DARPA Launches Cyber Grand Challenge
Today marks the start of the Cyber Grand Challenge, organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The New York Times has a lengthy article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Cosmetics Reality at Sephora
Have seen this idea tried many times. Give consumers the ability to have a mirror that shoes how cosmetics will look on their face. 'The 'magic mirror' idea.Here...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
I’ve had some fun with a line from the movie The Princess Bride and meme generator below inspired by working with students. Programming is so non intuitive for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dark Stores for Fulfillment
Had not heard the term 'dark stores' for some time, but experimented with the concept some years ago. It also allows experimentation with the structure of the store...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 2
June 4 The Privacy, Technology and the Law subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on a location privacy bill. 2:30 p.m., 226 Dirksen...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter- Cybersecurity Education EAGERs
The Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) along with the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Walls for Offices or Living Spaces
Augmenting walls to create enabled office spaces is something we experimented with. Had innovation sessions with office furniture makers. Fastcompany relates ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Analysis Resources
Nathan Gilliatt connected and mentioned he runs a blog on social media analysis that I had missed. " ... The Business of Monitoring, Measuring and Understanding...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 2 June 2014
I used to tell people that I liked to blog because I knew that classroom teachers didn’t have a lot of time to look for things. As the school year comes to a close...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social TV, A Study
In Knowledge@Wharton. Video podcast and transcript.As social media grows more popular, it’s increasingly becoming a way for industries, companies and brands to...
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Hacking of the US
Chinese hacking of American computer networks is old news. For years we've known about their attacks against U.S. government and corporate targets. We've seen detailed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A View of Rebel Statistics, But What Were we Using?
Vincent Granville in Data Science Central: Data Science Has Been Using Rebel Statistics for a Long Time. Makes some fascinating comparisons between data science...
From Computational Complexity