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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Go Code Girl 2014: Impact Survey Results
This year's Go Code Girl event, which focused on programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi, was a great success. The impact surveys the girls filled in at the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2014 Computing Innovation Fellows Workshop: Research, Innovation, Impact
The Computing Innovation Fellows (CI Fellows) project, was a program that granted short-term postdoctoral fellowships to help keep recent graduates in the field...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Avoiding Monsters and Non-Monsters
A new insight into the structure of some exotic mathematical objects Karl Weierstrass is often credited with the creation of modern analysis. In his quest for rigor...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Avoiding Monsters and Non-Monsters
A new insight into the structure of some exotic mathematical objects Karl Weierstrass is often credited with the creation of modern analysis. In his quest for rigor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The NYT on Innovation
Mashable expands on the recent NYT Innovation article. Includes Mashable's takeaways. And a good summary of the challenges related. My only further thought would...
From Schneier on Security
The Economics of Bulk Surveillance
Ross Anderson has an important new paper on the economics that drive government-on-population bulk surveillance: My first big point is that all the three factors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Laboratory for Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Another interesting example of a corporate innovation lab. I have reported here many times on the value and direction of the idea. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Blog
Tina Groves of IBM has an interesting blog on Big Data, " ... leverages her 25 years in analysis, event processing and information-driven applications to lead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Comics and Story Visualization
Via Kevin Winterfield, A look at Scott McCloud's classic book on the comics. The sequential panel model of comics can be used as a means for storytelling a storyboard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Brain Implants
Implant charging is a key need for deep brain implants. In Engadget. " ... Stanford researchers have figured out a way to wirelessly charge electronic devices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategies for a Digital Age
Recently connected to author David L Rogers. His new book: The Network is Your Customer: 5 Strategies to Survive in a Digital Age. See his site for more information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and T-Mobile to Offer Tablets
In CNet: The idea has been pushed since at least 08. It is already being done by retailers in Europe. " ... Walmart and T-Mobile to offer tablets with free data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Let's you Program a Quantum Computer
Google simulates the programming of a quantum computer. Not create one, but simulate its programming. In ReadwriteWeb. Also, the D-Wave computer, developed by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning Arguments
In Mind Hacks: On the Psychology of winning arguments. " .... How do you change someone’s mind if you think you are right and they are wrong? Psychology reveals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examples of Biological Swarms
A strikingly photographed piece on examples of animal swarms and their advantages. Recently broadcast on US PBS and available here. This does not address how...
From Computational Complexity
Review of People, Problems and Proofs By Lipton and Regan
(A version of this either already has or well appear in SIGACT NEWS book rev column.) A review of the blog-book PEOPLE, PROBLEMS, AND PROOFS by Richard Lipton...
From Wild WebMink
Elections In Middle Earth
The Middle Earth elections are over and there’s a new alliance of elves and men in control, but all I can find on local TV is news of Tom Bombadil crushing Bilbo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 May 2014
There are still a couple of weeks of school for me and my students. Well the seniors are done with their finals on Friday but underclassmen have some time after...
From CERIAS Blog
Patching is Not Security
I have long argued that the ability to patch something is not a security “feature” — whatever caused the need to patch is a failure. The only proper path to better...
From CERIAS Blog