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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Fiona Apple Wears a Squid as a Hat in New Video
Even I think this is weird.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSEA Legislation Timeline
There is so much momentum around the need for more computer science education in the country's schools, and many organizations in addition to CSTA are now working...
From Schneier on Security
D-Link Router Backdoor
Several versions of D-Link router firmware contain a backdoor. Just set the browser's user agent string to "xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide," and you're in. (Hint...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dilbert in the Enterprise
In the HBR: We were heavy users of the Dilbert strip in the enterprise. They found their way into many slide shows. We thought that Scott Adams must have been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Google in the Supply Chain
So true, worth looking at again:Why distributors should pay attention to Amazon, Google Amazon's B2B online channel Amazon Supply and Google's Google Shopping for...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Participation: 2014 Workshop on ACM History
The ACM History Committee (http://history.acm.org/) is sponsoring a two-day archiving workshop to help diffuse knowledge of professional archival practices into...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Deadline for Proposals for CSTA Conference Approaching
The deadline for session and workshop proposals for the 2014 CSTA conference on K-12 computer science education is November 15, 2013. In addition to 3-hour workshops...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying Cell Phones Through Sensor Imperfections
There seems to be a bunch of research into uniquely identifying cell phones through unique analog characteristics of the various embedded sensors. These sortsSlashdot...
From Putting People First
What behavioral economics is not
Essay: The Nature of the BEast: What Behavioral Economics Is Not 10/16/13 Matthew Darling, Saugato Datta, and Sendhil Mullainathan People are complex; they defy...
From Putting People First
An obstacle to patient-centered care: poor supply systems
It is widely acknowledged that patients and their families should be deeply involved in the design of and decisions about the health care that the former receive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Gym from IDEO
For a recent talk I had to research some of the work that IDEO did for P&G. I re-discovered this Bloomberg article about the design work that IDEO did to helpWayne...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Injecting Serious CS into a STEM Course
My school district has a STEM course in the high school that is meeting the district's computer science graduation requirement. That means that the STEM students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Topology Mapping for Analytics
Seems Vincent Granville has been thinking similarly lately. See his article and code in Data Science Central: A little known component that should be part of...
From Schneier on Security
"A Court Order Is an Insider Attack"
Ed Felten makes a strong argument that a court order is exactly the same thing as an insider attack: To see why, consider two companies, which we'll call Lavabit...
From My Biased Coin
Simons Research Fellowships Post
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post a note about the Simons Research Fellowships positions at Berkeley. But since that's where Justin Thaler (my now-ex student)...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Toward Star Trek economics
Characters in the Star Trek universe often claim that their future Earth has abolished money. Everyone gets what he needs and nobody works for money. Unfortunately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Model of Persuasion
In Neuroscience Marketing: " ... The Persuasion Slide™. In short, it’s a simple model for persuasion that encompasses a variety of conscious and non-conscious factors...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Career Technical Schools and Computer Science
Over the years I have gotten involved with a number of career technical schools in New England. Several in New Hampshire where I live and several in Massachusetts...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Slides from 'Coherent Emergent Stories in Video Games' / GHC13
I gave a talk at this year's Grace Hopper on what I've been working on for my thesis project:Coherent Emergent Stories in Video GamesCrafting satisfying narratives...
From The Eponymous Pickle