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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
Transparency and Accountability
As part of the fallout of the Boston bombings, we're probably going to get some new laws that give the FBI additional investigative powers. As with the Patriotmost...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 CSTA Board Election Results Announced
CSTA Election results are announced Congratulations on reelection to Patrice Gans, Dave Reed and new member Stephanie Hoeppner. Oh and I have been elected too. ...
From Putting People First
New NESTA paper on good and bad futurology
A new NESTA paper, Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, navigates the myths and realities of good and bad futurology, from economic forecasting to science fiction...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
This Week in Federal Policy
Topics to be addressed in Congressional hearings this week include: internet video, accessibility for people with disabilities, federal computing research, big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Competition in Free Cloud Storage
ComputerWorld Reports that Google Drive has increased their free cloud storage to 15 GB. With Skydrive and Dropbox and iCloud and others the space available for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi's Touch Tower
Touch Tower, which appears to be Pepsi's response to Coke's Freestyle machines, which now seem to be common but not universal. Coke says there are about 7000late...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NBC News Features New Robotics Era
Today, a feature story in the technology section of NBC News, Dawn of the bot? New era nears, experts say, brings additional attention to the exciting future of...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Study on Student STEM Interests
I recently came across an interesting publication that looks at patterns in STEM education and it provides some surprising insights into students' interests in...
From Computational Complexity
Mother's Day Math
Problem: On Mothers day (May 12 this year) restaurants are very crowded because many people take their mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, etc out to lunch...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer (and Math) Humor
I like this one in part because it is subtle. There are two basic standards for opening the curly brace in C-type languages. Not everyone will pick up on it....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Team With Facebook
In AdAge: Always looking for ways that big social media can leverage their participants, and this one is interesting. In particular how online can drive in store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sending Scent
A long followed idea. We did actual experiments in the space. Can digital scent signatures be transmtted and reconstructed? We found out no at the time. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 May 2013
Just about a month left of this school year for me. In between trying to keep things going with grading and teaching I’m starting to think about what I want toRay...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scraping Tweets to Gather Data
In GigaOM: As one who frequently fumbles about for specific information in a Twitter stream, this looks good. " .... A new beta version of ScraperWiki makes I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PARC Future View
We visited them frequently in the early days of having an information technology research group. In recent years I have heard less from them. Here they are asked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile BI Applications
Key steps for Mobile BI applications, a process I am now studying. But it is not only about the devices to be used, but what the decision process is.
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Elevators Phone Home
In GigaOM: This has been described before as the internet of things. But what are the most interesting that this network can do, beyond the obvious? Networking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia Change Map
In ArsTechnica: An open source map of changes to the Wikipedia. Had we been successful in building an enterprise wikipedia inspired knowledge map, this could...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP