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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 My Biased Coin
News Worth Reading
There's been plenty of interesting stuff popping up in the news, so it's time to collect a bit.This article describes a current patent case in cryptography, where...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy highlights computing at it’s November Meeting
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy (PCAST) met on November 12, 2013 and highlighted computing throughout the meeting. The first...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Theorems From Physics?
Can information physics extract proofs from reality? IEEE source Rolf Landauer was a physicist and computer engineer who spent most of his career at IBM north of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Program at NSF includes Computer Science Education Research
The Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) in the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a new...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code Update 26 November 2013
The Hour of Code events for CS Ed Week is shaping up to be really big. Are you involved? Here's an update I got from the founder of code.org this week. We announced...
From Schneier on Security
The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA
This is a long article about the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU), which is basically its own internal NSA. It carries out its own signals intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Site
From Bunchball, a blog I had the chance to look at again about Gamification. I was asked to provide some examples in this space, and this is a good place to go...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carver Mead on Quantum Computing
In CACM: Carver Mead was an early inspiration for our advanced computing and sensor work. In particular about the use of optical sensors. Here he writes...
From CERIAS Blog
The Passing of A Pioneer
Willis H. Ware, a highly respected and admired pioneer in the fields of computing security and privacy, passed away on November 22nd, 2013, aged 93. Born August...
From CERIAS Blog
The Passing of A Pioneer
Willis H. Ware, a highly respected and admired pioneer in the fields of computing security and privacy, passed away on November 22nd, 2013, aged 93. Born August...
From CERIAS Blog
The Passing of A Pioneer
Willis H. Ware, a highly respected and admired pioneer in the fields of computing security and privacy, passed away on November 22nd, 2013, aged 93. Born August...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Genetic Algorithms
I am a long time follower and user of genetic algorithms. Here from David E Goldberg on Slideshare: Fast, Effective Genetic Algorithms for Large, Hard Problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NEIL Learns from Images
I was involved with a startup system that used image recognition and categorization called Photrade several years ago. There I got an appreciation of how difficult...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Markets Please
More open markets and less regulation. Ultimately decreases prices. Mark J Perry does an other post on a favorite market topic of his: Ticket Scalping. Another...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senior Executives Online
Should senior execs of large enterprises like Wal-Mart, be on Twitter? Some interesting thoughts.But is this an example of attempting to micro manage consumer...
From Schneier on Security
US Working to Kill UN Resolutions to Limit International Surveillance
This story should get more publicity than it has.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Where is the CS Pipeline?
I was contacted by a CS/Math teacher last month who had an interest in hosting CS camps for elementary school students. Since our local CSTA Advocacy group was...
From Putting People First
BancoSmart video – Experientia’s ATM interface for UniCredit Bank
Experientia’s innovative ATM interface for UniCredit Bank has started to roll out across ATMs in Italy, and UniCredit has created a video to showcase some of the...
From Computational Complexity
The Institute for proving Graph Isomorphism is in P
(This post was inspired by Adam Winklers awesome book Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. Disclaimers one: Adam Winkler is my cousin and...
From The Eponymous Pickle