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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
Encryption in Cloud Computing
This article makes the important argument that encryption -- where the user and not the cloud provider holds the keys -- is critical to protect cloud data. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 November 2012
I spent a little time tweaking this blog layout last week. Just trying to make it look a little less cookie cutter. I also wanted to add the share buttons at the...
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Simple Advice for Being Effective in School
As a result of hijacking a few recitations in MIT's 6.005: Software Construction course to evangelize Scala, I have come into contact with numerous undergraduates...
From The Noisy Channel
Data By The People, For The People
I was fortunate this year not only to be able to attend the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012) in Maui, but also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drawing Together
David Sibbet, on the use of visualization capabilities with groups, as demonstrated by a mentor and friend at TED. "... It's a simple, inviting, clear demonstration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examination of Computers in 1984
I remember thinking about the advances in computing that year, and how the forecast of dire changes did not occur. This article surveys computing, hardware and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Tablet is not a Book, Yet
In UX Magazine: A complaint that reading a book on a tablet is not the same as reading a physical book. I have thought that for some time, and in general only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rewarding Responsible Innovation
Had never heard it expressed quite this this way. So what is responsible innovation? " ... We are talking about ethics, in that ethics is responsibility-taking...
From My Biased Coin
More from Simons Institute
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the following. For #2; note that those with existing postdoc positions are eligible (the Simons people hope they'll be able to...
From Computational Complexity
Fifty Years of Computational Complexity
From Juris Hartmanis’ Observations About the Development of Theoretical Computer Science on the research leading to his seminal 1965 paper On the Computational...
From Putting People First
Finally a serious research study on tablet use in schools
Although there are many tablet deployments in schools worldwide, there is a glaring lack of serious research on what actually happens in the classrooms with these...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Whole Systems, Whole Students”
At last week’s meeting of the Council of the Computing Community Consortium – held at Microsoft Research in Redmond WA – UC Berkeley’s Eric Brewer gave an inspirational...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
I Can't Cook, But I Can Teach CS
Almost everyone I know can cook. And what I mean by cooking, is that they can make themselves some semblance of a balanced meal that tastes good. I, on the other...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Giving Customers the Mobility to Play
I have had the need to give mobility payment options to customers. As a result have needed to examine options that are available, and I now tried several, ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook as an Offline Retail Tool
In Adage: A replacement to the common circular? " ... studies have indicated that online posts can have a huge impact on consumer action away from the platform...
From Putting People First
A tablet still is not a book … not yet
Dan Turner discusses why the experience of reading a book on tablets (iPads in particular) is a chore rather than a delight. In a long article for UX Magazine,...
From Putting People First
More NEXT Service Design videos
Last week I posted links to a few videos from NEXT Service Design, the European conference for designing digital services, which took place on 8 October in Berlin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Performance Computing in the Cloud
Featured in CN Computing Now: " ... High performance computing is no longer limited to those who own supercomputers. HPC's democratization has been driven particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Rocket Parts
Colleague Walter Riker points me to this SciAM article about the 3D printing of rocket parts. Another move forward.
From The Eponymous Pickle