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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
Technologies of Surveillance
It's a new day for the New York Police Department, with technology increasingly informing the way cops do their jobs. With innovation comes new possibilities but...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Do We Teach Debugging?
I spent some time debugging student code today. Actually I spend a lot of time debugging student code these days. It is not something I mind at all. I see it as...
From Putting People First
The disappearing interface
Where static computer screens and smartphones suck in our gaze and extract us from the world around us, many of the most interesting new tech gadgets and ideas...
From Putting People First
Designing the political future
After technology received so much attention as a key differentiator for Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, Cooper Managing Director Doug LeMoine asked Scout Addis...
From Putting People First
Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
Who needs a kettle with four heat settings? A washing machine with a ‘freshen up’ function? A toaster with six browning modes? What happened to the good old days...
From Putting People First
Language issues. An Interview with Brigitte Jordan
Last September, social anthropologist Nora Schenkel had the opportunity to interview Brigitte Jordan, described by Cat Macaulay as one of the “godmothers” of design...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
President Obama Answers Question About Computer Science
If you haven't seen it yet, check out the two and a half minute video of President Obama on Google+ Hangout. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlOySsg7oxY When...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Air Travel Costs
M J Perry writes that flight travel cost per mile has decreased 50% since 1980. Interesting statistics and very surprising. Some of the commenters suggest that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Sim City
A new version of SimCity is coming out tomorrow to considerable enthusiasm. SimCity opened the eyes of a number of executives to the use of simulation when it...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congress to Consider Patent Litigation Reforms This Week
Two events on Capitol Hill this week will focus on potential patent litigation reforms. Both will be available by live webcast. Congressional Briefing on “Patent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification and Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: How gamification influences open innovation. Two favorite topics with spending numbers and forecasts. We used gamification to innovate...
From Wild WebMink
Saying “Copy” Was A Screw-Up
Why using the word "copy" was probably the screw-up that took away our rights and allowed publishing middle-men everywhere to eternally tax culture.
From Schneier on Security
New Internet Porn Scam
I hadn't heard of this one before. In New Zealand, people viewing adult websites -- it's unclear whether these are honeypot sites, or malware that notices thepop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Stall at Disney's Tomorrowland
I have grown up around both personal and job related visits to Disney. So this review of Tomorrow Land hit home. Seen it since the late 60s. Exactly what I had...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where are the “big problem” jobs?
Several authors, scientists and entrepreneurs have lamented our poor ability to innovate. It seems that industry is recruiting few people to work on hard problems...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Do Not Track Legislation Reintroduced in Senate
On Thursday Senator Rockefeller of West Virginia introduced legislation to establish an option for people to opt out of tracking their online activity. It is S.418...
From Computational Complexity
Do we ever NEED the adv pumping lemma for Reg langs?
Recall the Pumping Lemma and the Advanced Pumping Lemma for Regular languages: Pump. Lemma: If L is regular and infinite then there exists n such that for all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disfluency
In The Edge: Why do simple cues so influence what we perceive? Reminds me of Semiotics, which is also a way to look at how cues change our view of the world, recently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ultrasound on Smartphones and Tablets
More sensor developments we need to watch. Directly how practical and accurate remains to be seen. " ... Qualcomm, in the fourth quarter of 2012, acquired the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM