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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 Wild WebMink
Personal URL on Google+
I’m pleased that Google+ now offers personalised profile URLs – mine is https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SimonPhipps/ All I need now is for them to allow me to have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telling Your Story with Twitter
An approach to tell your life story via only your Twitter stream. Course that means you have to be using twitter all the time. Have seen similar approaches with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Big Data
Several recent projects have involved public big data, so have become used to the thought of seeking out such data and mashing it up with internal data. Geographic...
From Computational Complexity
My Pope Number is 2: The Smaller World Hypothesis
I proofread Piergiogrio Odilfreddi's book (which is on Lance's List of Favorite Complexity Books) for which I got a generous acknowledgment. I have also visited...
From Schneier on Security
The Story of the Bomb Squad at the Boston Marathon
This is interesting reading, but I'm left wanting more. What are the lessons here? How can we do this better next time? Clearly we won't be able to anticipate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA Voice November 2013
If you are a member of the CSTA you should have gotten this update in email. If you didn’t you may want to make sure that CSTA has your email address right. Ifmore...
From Putting People First
Tesla’s groundbreaking UX: interview with UI manager Brennan Boblett
“Dashboards of the past are littered with physical buttons that can never change, forever ingrained into them. The [Tesla] Model S, by contrast, has a fully upgradeable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovations of Hadoop 2
Innovations of Note: " ... Hadoop 2 has brought along with it new ways of processing data and storing even more data. It suggests the Hadoop community understands...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Deputy Division Director Position Available at NSF CISE
The National Science Foundation is looking to hire a Deputy Division Director in the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, a unit within the Directorate...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The "Why Are We Learning This?" Guide for Arts and Social Sciences
In my Intro to Computer for Arts and Social Sciences class, I have been introducing the students to a bit of programming and algorithmic thinking in addition to...
From Schneier on Security
More NSA Revelations
This New York Times story on the NSA is very good, and contains lots of little tidbits of new information gleaned from the Snowden documents. The agency’s Dishfire...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hofstadter Making Machines Think
In the Atlantic: An extensive article on author Douglas Hofstadter and machine learning. We read with great gusto his book : Godel, Escher Bach back in the 80s...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Critical Questions for CS Education Research
This weekend CSTA Chair Deborah Seehorn and I were attending the ACM Education Council meetings and, as part of the meeting, we participated in a group discussion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Color From L'Oreal
In Clickz: New ways to market cosmetics in context. With similarity to some of our virtual makeover work. " ... In a location perhaps better known for rats and...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 4
November 4 Meeting: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is meeting to discuss national security surveillance programs (the meeting was originally scheduled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Infringing IBM Patents
A piece in Gigom: Had a number of discussions with IBM when when they were doing lots of social media exploration for improving internal communications, so not...
From Putting People First
Experientia presents “BancoSmart”, the innovative ATM interface designed for UniCredit Bank
The user-centred approach is moving into finance, as banks increasingly connect to their customers’ needs and wants. As part of this trend, global banking and financial...
From Putting People First
Experientia rivoluziona la user experience degli ATM con “BancoSmart”, l’innovativa interfaccia degli ATM UniCredit
Le banche stanno cercando sempre più di entrare in sintonia con le esigenze ed i desideri dei propri clienti, innovando i propri prodotti e servizi secondo una...
From Schneier on Security
badBIOS
Good story of badBIOS, a really nasty piece of malware. The weirdest part is how it uses ultrasonic sound to jump air gaps. Ruiu said he arrived at the theory...
From Putting People First