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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 Wild WebMink
Cause and Effect
Why do people take actions that actually make things worse as they attempt to solve complex problems? I was interviewed Monday for an upcoming documentary called...
From Schneier on Security
Preventing Catastrophic Threats
"Recommendations to Prevent Catastrophic Threats." Federation of American Scientists, 9 November 2012. It's twelve specific sets of recommendations for twelvethis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Commerce is Jumping
Thanksgiving sales are being driven through mobile rather than social. A look at the future? Driven by location, in other words anywhere, as opposed to social...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Rhodes Scholar Joy Buolamwini
This year’s CCC Thanksgiving feel-good story features Joy Buolamwini, a 2012 graduate of the Georgia Tech College of Computing who was recently named a 2013 Rhodes...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What I do with my time
I am not a very productive person. I also do not work long hours. However, I sometimes give the impression that I productive. I have been asked to explain how I...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Ironman v0.8 Draft Available for Comments
Dear Colleagues, We are happy to announce the availability of the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Ironman v0.8 draft. The draft is available at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Marketing Toothpaste
Good overview of the use of mobile marketing for something as common as toothpaste. " ... Marketing toothpaste can be a challenge for brands because even though...
From Schneier on Security
Cell Phone Surveillance
Good article on the different ways the police can eavesdrop on cell phone calls.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Seize the Professional Development!
The Philadelphia Area chapter started providing professional development workshops to our members because they asked for it. We regularly query our membership as...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Developing New Ways to Search for Web Images
Collections of photos, images, and videos are quickly coming to dominate the content available on the Web. But how can text be used to search visual mediums? Currently...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Things I Like About Python
Back in May I wrote a popular post about which was a better beginners language: Processing or Python. Although I concluded that Processing was better for the audiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Midsize Insiders
Some of my blog posts will start to appear in Midsize Insiders. Quite an interesting group of other bloggers as I have read them so far: " ... Insiders are independent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Need for Thank You
In the HBR: In a long career, before search became common, and I had become a rumored expert, I was often asked to do a simple online search. Later their admins...
From Schneier on Security
Decrypting a Secret Society's Documents from the 1740s
Great story, both the cryptanalysis process and the Oculists.
From My Biased Coin
Posts from FOCS (part 5)
[Again, edited by Justin Thaler, who organized all this. The following was written by Michael Forbes of MIT.]Title: Higher Cell Probe Lower Bounds for Evaluating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Tricks for Dieting
What if we used augmented reality to scale what we eat to its caloric content? A simple idea, that might work in an era of Google Glasses type Augmented Reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and Jobs
Wharton looks at Facebook's social jobs App. A competitor to Linkedin's focus? " ... the company’s “Social Jobs” app will allow users to search approximately...
From Computational Complexity
Recursion Theorem follows from Church-Turing
During a homework assignment in a graduate complexity course I took at Cornell back in 1985 I used the following reasoning: Since a computer code sits in RAM that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Space Usage
In Progressive Grocer. A recent exploration of a Fresh Market made me take a closer look at allocation of space and the implications of the approaches being used...
From The Noisy Channel