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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 Schneier on Security
TrueCrypt WTF
I have no idea what's going on with TrueCrypt. Good summary of story is a ArsTechnica, and SlashDot, Hacker News, and Reddit all have long comment threads. See...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms That Dominate the World
A fun example list of how algorithms are being used today in just about everything we do. At first I thought these were detail level examples, but they are more...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Enough with the Lecturing, Already!
Findings from studies comparing lecturing to active learning in undergraduate education show that fewer students fail science, engineering and math courses that...
From Schneier on Security
Eben Moglen on Snowden and Surveillance
This is well worth reading. It's based on a series of talks he gave last fall....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Two Administration Big Data Reports Hint At Policy Challenges Ahead
In early May the White House and the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) each issued reports on ‘big data’ as part of the Administration’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Goods Visionaries: Procter's 1,Consumer Place
I see that Steve Aaron, former colleague, has been identified in Consumer Goods Technology as the architect of P&G's revolutionary 1, Consumer Place. See an interview...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Books on my desk (May 2014)
Manning sent me the second edition of their Hello World: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners. At less than $25 on Amazon, this 450-page color book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Content Aggregation by Retailers
In Retailwire: Interesting thought, but also check out the comments at the link, which points out some problems. The piece points to this article. ' ... What...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You as an Idea Machine
The Ultimate Guide for Becoming an Idea Machine, by James Altucher. A long piece that looks to be worthwhile, just reading. Ideas are the fodder of innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Educating the Big Data Generation
In Fortune: Educating the 'big data' generation ... Classes—and even degree programs—focused on data analytics are cropping up all over the U.S. Behind them?With...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supermarkets and Social Media
In SupermarketNews:" ... Supermarkets should expand their online presence and include more recipes and meal ideas to connect with consumers beyond coupons and promotional...
From Putting People First
Renting isn’t lending: the ‘sharing economy’ fallacy
The sharing economy is a harmful misnomer, writes John Harvey, a researcher at the University of Nottigham. It conflates people who actually share with those who...
From Putting People First
When big data meets dataveillance: the hidden side of analytics
Among the numerous implications of digitalization, the debate about ‘big data’ has gained momentum. The central idea capturing attention is that digital data represents...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Funding Opportunity to Support Early-Career CISE Researchers
The following is a special contribution to the blog from Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate...
From My Biased Coin
ITCS 2015
I was asked to announce the call for ITCS. Here is a link to the call for papers, with the most important info:ITCS (previously known as ICS) seeks to promote...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking Back To Move Forward
I think most teachers do some introspection at the end of the school year about how things went for them. They think about what worked and what didn’t work so that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing and Contrasting Analytics Types
In Smart Data Collective: I have heard this debated a number of times. Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive. Some even add additional types, but I think"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taxing Enjoyable Work, and Uncanny Valley of Work Related Social Events
Taxing new things, like work satisfaction. I am sure this is all being thought of today. And how do we determine if something is fun, or just engineered to be...
From Putting People First
Open government requires having the end user in mind
Simply making data available online isn’t enough – it needs to be created with the end user in mind, writes Jed Miller in The Guardian. “But online or off, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle