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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
Defending Native Ads
Interesting question from CES. Reach and scale versus engagement on banner ads versus native ads. Panelists respond to the question.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
HS Computer Club Works with the Community
In our most recent CSTA Central NJ Chapter meeting one of our members shared activities that her HS computer club enjoyed. Our chapter members were very excited...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Video
Last week, I blogged about an upcoming Discovery Channel program with actual video footage of a live giant squid. ABC News has a tantalizingly short sneak peak...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Google and the Federal Trade Commission Reach Agreements
On January 3rd, the Federal Trade Commission completed its antitrust review of Google. After 19 months of investigation, the Commission announced that Google will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Innovation no Longer Driving Growth?
In the Economist: A pessimistic view that is challenged. With some useful statistics along the way. " ... Has the world run out of ideas? ... Some economists...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Computing Community Consortium: A Force Multiplier for CRA
The following is an article published in the January 2013 edition of Computing Research News. If you would like receive CRN via email, you can sign up here. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charmin Site and US Currency
A popular legal blog takes a look at the 'Charmin Corporate Site', and makes comments about the symbolism between basic Charmin functionality and currency. Is this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singularity Rising
Moore's law and Artificial Intelligence. What does it mean to be 'smart' for machines? A new book: Singularity Rising. describes the problem. What will the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walgreen's Mobile Strategies
An overview of what Walgreen is doing and experimenting with. I have followed them for some time and their implementation is very good. Includes mention of Foursquare...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Government regulations… as software
Socialists accuse me of being a libertarian. Libertarians accuse me of being a socialist. I am actually a pragmatist: I believe that we should set things up to...
From Wild WebMink
An Open Source Take-Over
By poaching the key developer from VMware, Red Hat has made a chess move derived from extensive experience of open source. It’s gained control over future development...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Generating Revenue from MOOCS
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) made available by organizations like Coursera, an online education company that offers free college courses, are gaining popularity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blaming the Dewey Decimal Innovation Problem
A good piece in Fast Company about how innovation can go wrong based on the infrastructure and culture that it exists in. We used this example of classification...
From Schneier on Security
Experimental Results: Liars and Outliers Trust Offer
Last August, I offered to sell Liars and Outliers for $11 in exchange for a book review. This was much less than the $30 list price; less even than the $16 Amazon...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
STEM Modeling Challenge–Florida Virtual School
I saw this announcement on the Advanced Placement Computer Science teacher forums and thought it worth sharing. Let’s Raise the Bar for STEM Education! Whether...
From Putting People First
How research misses the human behind the demographic
Deutsch’s Douglas Van Praet discusses how focus-group feedback, and the whole notion of the consumer, are misguided and how research should focus on understanding...
From Putting People First
Intel’s ‘Women and the Web’ report
From the press release: Intel Corporation released a groundbreaking report on “Women and the Web,” unveiling concrete data on the enormous Internet gender gap in...
From Wild WebMink
WYWOA
(While You Were Out, Again) Today I have a roundup of the digital rights stories that caught my eye over the break, on ComputerWorldUK.
From CERIAS Blog
On Student Projects, Phoenix, and Improving Your IT Operations
Back in about 1990 at Purdue University, I was approached by an eager undergrad who had recently come to Purdue. A mutual acquaintance (hi, Rob!) had recommended...
From The Eponymous Pickle