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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
Fate of the PC
Scoping the fate of the PC. They seem to be morphing into the tablet. What aspects of devices are true requirements?![[Paper] Designing customer-centric branchless banking offerings](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Paper] Designing customer-centric branchless banking offerings
Designing Customer-Centric Branchless Banking Offerings Claudia McKay, Yanina Seltzer The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) 20 December 2013 pdf, iBook...
From Schneier on Security
The Changing Cost of Surveillance
From Ashkan Soltani's blog post: The Yale Law Journal Online (YLJO) just published an article that I co-authored with Kevin Bankston (first workshopped at the ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Nominations for the CSTA Board of Directors 2014 Election
Are you an active member of the Computer Science Teachers Association and looking to get more involved? The CSTA Board is a working board that develops policy for...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Run For the CSTA Board of Directors
Are you an educator or adminstrator with skills and drive? Have you considered putting those skills and drive to work for your CSTA? There are six vacancies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Socialogical Systems
In the Future of the CIO: Future From a Mechanical to Sociological System. Is this a digital shift? An academic view.
From Schneier on Security
HEADWATER: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's implant from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: HEADWATER (TS//SI//REL) HEADWATER is a Persistent Backdoor (PDB) software...
From Computational Complexity
A short History of Crypto
I taught a 3-week summer course to High School Students called Computer Science: A Hands Off Approach which did some theory. One thing I did was the following...
From My Biased Coin
Andreessen Tweets
My brother pointed me to this article on a great exchange of tweets about the origins of Netscape. The two highlights, for me at least. First, Andreessen expressed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Comp Sci Prof Explains Quantum Computing
A relatively non technical article in the WSJ on the state of Quantum computing, An interview about what it is, what it might be good for, and where it may be going...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Convincing People that Smartphone Shopping is Safe
Recent events have made this more difficult, but the solutions and behavior needed are still there. What is the particular nature of the Smartphone that makesConvincing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Growing Scope of the Internet of Things
Gartner says it will grow 30 time to 26 billion by 2020. My guess that it will grow even larger, as more devices, some that we were not expecting, come online...
From Schneier on Security
Debunking the "NSA Mass Surveillance Could Have Stopped 9/11" Myth
It's something that we're hearing a lot, both from NSA Director General Keith Alexander and others: the NSA's mass surveillance programs could have stopped 9/11...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teachers and Role Models in CS Education
There was an interesting bit of chatting going on over Twitter about the importance of teachers as role models over the weekend. A lot of people think that having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gardeners vs Architects
In Innovation Excellence: A kind of designer vs analytics argument that is interesting. We dealt with this when we added a design function. But like in this...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching Functional Programming With A Chicken That Crosses the Road
I'm currently teaching a third year course on programming paradigms. For functional programming we look at Scheme, and for logic programming, Prolog. I took this...
From Schneier on Security
SOUFFLETROUGH: NSA Exploit of the Day
One of the top secret NSA documents published by Der Spiegel is a 50-page catalog of "implants" from the NSA's Tailored Access Group. Because the individual implants...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
So What Now?
The Hour of Code was a great success and you may have had more interest than ever before in computer science, but what do you do with all that momentum? How do...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Her - The Movie Influences User Interface
Back when I was giving talks at our innovation centers, the most frequently mentioned media was the move 'Minority Report'. Then just out and portraying an advertising...
From The Eponymous Pickle