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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 Putting People First
From GoPros to vanity camera drones
Nicolas Nova went skiing and saw a lot of GoPro cameras on people’s heads. He got intrigued, and wrote an Ethnography Matters column where he questions informal...
From Putting People First
The “intentional fallacy” and the “affective fallacy” of interaction design
How seriously should we (as researchers, practitioners, users, and members of society) seek to understand and factor in the intentions of the designers who made...
From Schneier on Security
New al Qaeda Encryption Tool
There's not a lot of information -- and quite a lot of hyperbole -- in this article: With the release of the Asrar Al Dardashah plugin, GIMF promised "secure correspondence"...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making Money or Making a Difference
I found this very interesting info graphic (OK Doug Peterson tweeted the link so really he found it first) from Seattle University at Training in Technology: The...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Are You Playing a Character, or Just Coaching Them?
Think of your favourite games that are about a particular character. Do you actually play that character, or are you just the coach? That is, are you able to fully...
From Schneier on Security
Massive Police Shootout in Cleveland Despite Lack of Criminals
This is an amazing story. I urge you to read the whole thing, but here's the basics: A November car chase ended in a "full blown-out" firefight, with glass and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
On Grades and STEM
The other day I was reading () Desire2Learn Acquires Course-Suggestion Software Inspired by Netflix and Amazon. The article discusses a program that uses information...
From Computational Complexity
Proving DFA-langs closed under concat and * without using equiv to NDFA's
While teaching the Equiv of DFA, NDFA, Reg exps, I wanted to impress upon my students that the best way to show DFA-langs are closed under concat and * is to first...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 11
February 14 Hearing: The House Select Committee on Intelligence will hold a hearing on advanced cyber threats. 10 a.m., HVC-210 Capitol Visitors Center The Research...
From Schneier on Security
Our New Regimes of Trust
Society runs on trust. Over the millennia, we've developed a variety of mechanisms to induce trustworthy behavior in society. These range from a sense of guiltThis...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Principles–An Update
The About the Program page for the CS Principles, A New First Course in Computing website has some updated documents since the last time I visited it. Of particular...
From My Biased Coin
Daily Show
Anyone else watching Jon Stewart making fun of Harvard w/regard to the "cheating scandal".[I need the exact wording for the punch line -- "Open Internet? Is this...
From Schneier on Security
Really Clever TLS Attack
This is an extremely clever man-in-the-middle timing attack against AES that exploits the interaction between how the protocol implements AES in CBC mode for encryption...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The big-O notation is a teaching tool
One of my clients once got upset. Indeed, the running time of our image processing algorithm grew by a factor of four when he doubled the resolution of an image...
From Schneier on Security
Platform Fragmentation as a Security Issue
Interesting article about the difficulty Google has pushing security updates onto Android phones. The problem is that the phone manufacturer is in charge, and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 February 2013
Last week was a great one for me. It ended with a massive snowstorm that hit New Hampshire Friday though Saturday. I love snow and we haven’t had as much as I would...
From Apophenia
Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen Practices Challenge Organizational Boundaries
At the ASTD TechKnowledge conference, I was asked to reflect on networked learning and how tomorrow’s workers will challenge today’s organizations. I did some reflecting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recipes and Components
Online grocery start up HelloFresh raises 'millions' in funding from Rocket, Kinnevik and others. More details. As an amateur cook I like the idea of task lists...
From Putting People First
Interview with Michael Griffiths, Director of Ethnographic Research, Ogilvy & Mather China
Michael B Griffiths is Director of Ethnography at Ogilvy & Mather, Greater China, Associate Research Fellow, White Rose East Asia Centre, and External Research...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog