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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Ensuring Teacher Voices Are Heard
This is an exciting time for CS education. There seems to be a growing national consensus that achievement in the sciences is critical both for the next generation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Object Oriented Recipe Development
An interesting piece out of GigaOM interviews media chef Alton Brown about using social media constructs to file and adapt food recipes. The link points to a video...
From Wild WebMink
MariaDB Foundation
I was pleased yesterday to see the MariaDB community starting the process of creating a Foundation to host open collective governance for their community. I’ll...
From Schneier on Security
Roger Williams' Cipher Cracked
Another historical cipher, this one from the 1600s, has been cracked: Senior math major Lucas Mason-Brown, who has done the majority of the decoding, said his...
From Putting People First
Design patterns for mobile user interfaces targeted at older adults
The use of smartphones is becoming widespread among all sectors of the population. However, developers and designers do not have access to guidance in designing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sharing is Learning
Last week was a great week for sharing among teachers. Microsoft ran their Partners in Learning Global Forum in Prague Czech Republic. They had 500 educators from...
From Putting People First
No one likes a city that’s too smart
This week London hosts a jamboree of computer geeks, politicians, and urban planners from around the world. At the Urban Age conference, they will discuss the latest...
From Putting People First
Using ethnography to study asthma
Ethnography can be used to inform important health and policy decisions. But there are few public case studies that illustrate the value of ethnography for this...
From Putting People First
What does it mean to be a digital native?
The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won, argues Oliver Joy on the CNN website. It was a bloodless conflict fought not with bullets...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Postdoc “Best Practices”
The Computing Research Association has adopted a set of “best practices” for postdocs, the result of work done by Anita Jones and Erwin Gianchandani under the auspices...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Amazing Zeta Code
But can it encode itself? src Sergei Voronin was an expert in analytic number theory, especially the Riemann zeta function. He proved a sense in which the Riemann...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration is the Thing
In Supermarket News: " ... Haggen and other retailers are showing how to collaborate with trading partners on mutually rewarding promotional and merchandising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Confidence
In Linkedin: Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO on creative confidence, with some useful links as well. " ... creative confidence is the ability to come up with breakthrough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Games Improve Vision?
I recall a conversation with an eye doctor a long time ago who swore to the use of eye exercises for improving vision. Can games be used as simulations to specifically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Package Goods Firms Seek Data Scientists
Adage makes the breathless claim that even Consumer Package Goods firms (CPGs) are now seeking data scientists. Well excuse me, they have always used data scientists...
From Wild WebMink
Intended to Fail?
Was Freiburg’s cancellation of its open source migration a foregone conclusion? With friends to support my terrible German, I tried to find out – see ComputerWorldUK...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Importance of Funding
More than five years ago, my school expressed an interest in adding computer programming classes to the curriculum. Since I had not taught programming in over ten...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Advice to Microsoft Education Marketing–Computer Science
For nine years my job at Microsoft was to promote the use of Microsoft technology in computer science education. I started with universities but moved over to K12...
From The Noisy Channel
Continuing to Post on LinkedIn
I just posted another pair of articles on LinkedIn: Understanding Relevance Relevance is Complicated I’ll continue to use The Noisy Channel as a personal blog,...
From The Eponymous Pickle