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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 Schneier on Security
Dry Ice Bombs at LAX
The news story about the guy who left dry ice bombs in restricted areas of LAX is really weird. I can't get worked up over it, though. Dry ice bombs are a harmless...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stores Tracking Phones
In Forbes: Ways to opt of being tracked in a store using your Smartphone. The obvious way is to turn off your Bluetooth and Wifi. The tracking approach is getting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Population Pattern Viewer
From RTI International: More interesting public data visualizations of economic drivers.Web-Based Map Allows Users to See Intricate Patterns in U.S. Population...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Kit
We worked with similar systems that tested RFID approaches. Kits, with all the required components, are very useful in understanding a technology space that includes...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Workshop on Opportunities in Robotics, Automation, and Computer Science
Manufacturing currently comprises about 12% of the US GDP — roughly 1.8 trillion USD. Although there is a perception (and some truth) to the fact that manufacturing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Invents a Plastic
Nice example of innovation in the enterprise, in an area not associated with the big CPG enterprise, but essential to its operation. Estimates of $1 Billion a...
From Schneier on Security
Can I Be Trusted?
SlashDot asks the question: I'm a big fan of Bruce Schneier, but just to play devil's advocate, let's say, hypothetically, that Schneier is actually in cahoots...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Closing the Gender Gap in Computer Science infographic
I get email about posting things to my blog pretty regularly. Often the items have little or no relevance to my usual topics and I ignore them. Sometimes they are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny Games
We also experimented with what we called micro games, to engage people that visited a web site. But also to get consumers to solve little problems, trading small...
From Schneier on Security
Defending Against Crypto Backdoors
We already know the NSA wants to eavesdrop on the Internet. It has secret agreements with telcos to get direct access to bulk Internet traffic. It has massive systems...
From Putting People First
How teachers in Africa are failed by mobile learning
Only projects that work with existing education systems will improve learning and cut poverty, says Niall Winters of the London Knowledge Lab at the University...
From Putting People First
Book: Status Update by Alice E. Marwick
Last year, I posted about the very interesting PhD dissertation by Alice E. Marwick (downloadable here). Based on ethnographic research of the San Francisco technology...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New National Robotics Initiative Solicitation Announced
A multi-agency partnership of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institutes of Health...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata and P&G for Consumer Relationships
Press release from Teradata: " .. the leading analytic data solutions company, has signed a new multi-year agreement with The Procter & Gamble Company establishing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing for Better Employee Feedback
Pretty simple idea. " ... A new study links job satisfaction with review satisfaction. Use these 5 crowdsourcing techniques to improve your employee reviews--and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheaper, Better Home Robotics
Have had a long time interest in the use of home robotics. And experimented with their us in the enterprise, and with the customers of the enterprise. We examined ...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 21
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 Hearing: The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will hold a hearing on “The Evolution of Wired...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Review the First Sample Chapters For Our CS Book For Beginners
You may remember hearing about a project I've been involved with for the last couple of years. We're working on a book about computer science designed for beginners...
From Computational Complexity
Teaching without a net
As a grad student I was teaching the linear-time Median finding algorithm and I FORGOT that I needed to solve the more general problem of selection. After less...
From The Eponymous Pickle