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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Collaborative Next Gen Analytics
A Webex recorded seminar by Robin Bloor in the Briefing Room. Good overview of the topic. Requires some registration. " ... Experienced analysts know there is...
From Schneier on Security
Lessons From the FBI's Insider Threat Program
This article is worth reading. One bit: For a time the FBI put its back into coming up with predictive analytics to help predict insider behavior prior to malicious...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup Kodu Challenge 2013
I wasn’t sure if this sort of event would happen again but it has. I saw the announcement yesterday. If you have students looking for a challenge and they are...
From Wild WebMink
Demand A Proper Consultation
The UK’s Home Office continues to push for maximum surveillance powers with minimum accountability in the latest adjustments to the Communications Data Bill. I...
From Putting People First
Ethnography: Ellen Isaacs at TEDxBroadway
Ellen Isaacs (personal site), a user experience designer and ethnographer at PARC, spoke on January 28 at TEDx Broadway about the power of ethnography and how it...
From Putting People First
Smart homes: our next digital privacy nightmare
The hyper-connected smart home of the future promises to change the way we live. More efficient energy usage, Internet-connected appliances that communicate with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buzz and Lift
In AdAge: Buzz online creates little or any product lift in the short term for Coke. Article provides some interesting statistics, with uncertainties. The comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Behavior and Decisions in Organizations
A very nice piece in Bain&Company, Why we Behave and Decide the way we do. Lots of information out there on why individuals act the way they do. Even aspects...
From Schneier on Security
FinSpy
Twenty five countries are using the FinSpy surveillance software package (also called FinFisher) to spy on their own citizens: The list of countries with servers...
From Computational Complexity
Will they use EasyPope to pick the Pope in 2050?
AP press 2050: The new pope was elected in just 2 hours using EasyPope, the software based on EasyChair, software designed to deciding which papers get into a conference...
From Wild WebMink
Python Trademark Safe In Europe
Seems all that community pressure worked. The Python Software Foundation confirmed that the UK hoster that was threatening their name has withdrawn its trademark...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering the Cloud
Good Thoughtful podcast piece on the topicManaging TechnologyUp in the Cloud: Hype and High Expectations for Cloud ComputingCloud computing is creating waves in...
From My Biased Coin
Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day 2013
I was asked to advertise the upcoming Second Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day (CAEC'13);information is available at http://caec.seas.harvard.edu/It's...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Apply to be a Pilot Sites for the AP CS Principles Course
As you may know a new Advanced Placement Computer Science, usually called AP CS Principles, is being developed by/for the College Board. The College Board is now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Peace via Vending Machines
A curious project from Coke using vending machines to promote world peace. Would they then need a vending App too?
From My Biased Coin
Update: Andrew Auernheimer Watch
Well, this is going to give me nightmares for a while. TechNewsWorld:"Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as "Weev," was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Framing Devices With an Interactive Twist
You may recall that I recommended inklewriter as one tool for testing story ideas. I recently found an interesting piece of interactive fiction made with it and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Changing Face of Education and Computer Science
Any person involved with education today can tell you that it is an ever changing field. What was common place just a few short years ago has been replaced by something...
From Schneier on Security