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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 Eponymous Pickle
Countering Fraud and Financial Crime
I was invited to a meeting on Fraud and Financial crime last week, but due to a number of issues could not make it. I believe the detection of detecting fraudIBM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microchips in Your Head
Beyond wearable, embedded. An old idea that continues to make steps towards the bionic human. Can we master the interface to the brain? ... " ... Google Wants...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Global Forum 2014
Recently Microsoft ran their big annual Microsoft Global Forum which brings together top teachers with technology from all over the world. I really want to go some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Lie Detection
In New Scientist. Can lies be detected? A new kind of emotion detection. " ... An AI system trained on false statements is highly accurate at spotting deceptive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Looks at Google Glass for Expertise
CACM looks at Google Glass. Another view, positive and negative. Still looking at what I would call 'office' applications that link to embedded intelligence and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Teacher Leader Testifies in Illinois
CSTA is now advocating for improvements to computer science education in many states and members of the CSTA Computer Science Advocacy and Leadership Team (CSALT)...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Coming to the 2014 CSTA Conference?
As you may have already heard (especially if you are a regular reader of this blog), the Computer Science Teachers Association is in full swing for our 2014 annual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Networking Your Toothbrush as Over-Design App Included
A step towards an Internet of Everything? Or should everything be just as intelligent as it needs to be? My former enterprise develops a smarter toothbrush "From...
From Schneier on Security
Liveblogging the Financial Cryptography Conference
Ross Anderson liveblogged Financial Cryptography 2014. Interesting stuff....
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Launches Job Board
In the last year CSTA has received an increasing number of requests from schools and organizations looking to find computer science teachers to fill new jobs. At...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Planning for Go Code Girl 2014: Python and Pis
Last year's Go Code Girl was a great success. This year, we wanted to build on that as well as try something a bit different. Keeping the same overall format,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FTC on In-Store Tracking and Data Security
In Retailwire: Key to follow for those that want to gather additional big retail data. " ... Advertising Age recently reported on five expected areas of focus...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Presidential Innovation Fellowship for USPTO Patent Quality Initiative
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program invites applications from individuals interested in helping the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) improve patent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Light, Efficient Lighting and Sensors
Using light as a means of network construction has existed for some time. It has interesting advantages and constraints. We tested it for very specialized retail...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Software Partnership Roundtable on Crowdsourcing Prior Art for Software Patents on April 10, 2014
The USPTO will hold a Software Partnership Roundtable on April 10 to discuss crowdsourcing and third-party preissuance submissions to identify prior art for software...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Turing’s Theory of Morphogenesis Validated
A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Brandeis University have provided the first experimental evidence that validates Alan Turing’s theory...
From Apophenia
Why Snapchat is Valuable: It’s All About Attention
Most people who encounter a link to this post will never read beyond this paragraph. Heck, most people who encountered a link to this post didn’t click on the link...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Data Flow
Agree with the points made here, the topic of lifecycle management is rarely considered seriously. It also goes beyond lifecycle, to better understand the context...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Changing The View Of Code
The other day I was working on a code project and ran into a frustrating bug. I looked at it for at least an hour and got nowhere with it. I used breakpoints, debugging...
From The Eponymous Pickle