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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink as a Condiment
Burger King introduces a black burger with ketchup that includes squid ink. Only in Japan, of course.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Myth of The All-nighter
All-nighters, those storied tales of spending all night in the computer lab or the library trying to meet a school deadline, came up in a Facebook conversationlaw...
From Schneier on Security
How To Tell if Your Hotel Guest Is a Terrorist
From the Department of Homeland Security, a handy list of 19 suspicious behaviors that could indicate that a hotel guest is actually a terrorist. I myself have...
From My Biased Coin
Posts from FOCS (Part 3)
Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler.[Editor: This is Part 3 in our series of posts covering FOCS 2012. Part 4,...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Seeking Nominations for the 2013 Women of Vision Awards
I serve on the Advisory Board of the Anita Borg Institute, an organization focused on increasing women's participation in the technology workforce --- as technologists...
From Wild WebMink
Finessing Stallman’s Pragmatism
Not a title that you might expect to see, but Richard Stallman has indeed posted a pragmatic proposal for dealing with software patents – to limit enforceability...
From Schneier on Security
How Terrorist Groups Disband
Interesting research from RAND: Abstract: How do terrorist groups end? The evidence since 1968 indicates that terrorist groups rarely cease to exist as a result...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Ready for Computer Science Education Week?
I’m a big fan of CSEdWeek (Computer Science Education Week) and in the past I have done school visits and hosted field trips at Microsoft offices during the week...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Seeking Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Interested in Computing!
Do you have a deaf or hard of hearing student in your class who is interested in math, science and/or computing? Encourage your student to check out the Summer...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Seeking Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Interested in Computing!
Do you have a deaf or hard of hearing student in your class who is interested in math, science and/or computing? Encourage your student to check out the Summer...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Power Of Guessing
Some results and ideas on guessing and nondeterminism David Doty and Michael Wehar are theorists who work in different areas of computational complexity, and are...
From Schneier on Security
Gary McGraw on National Cybersecurity
Good essay, making the point that cyberattack and counterattack aren't very useful -- actual cyberdefense is what's wanted. Creating a cyber-rock is cheap. Buying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Devices and Software
O'Reilly talks about Square Wallet and a number of other software developments. I have also been introduced recently to some Apps that interact with health data...
From Computational Complexity
Andrew Goldberg guest blog on new max flow result
Guest Blog by Andrew Goldberg on the recent Max Flow in O(nm) time algorithm. Maximum Flow in O(nm) Time Recently, Jim Orlin published an O(nm) maximum flow algorithm...
From Schneier on Security
Micromorts
Here's a great concept: a micromort: Shopping for coffee you would not ask for 0.00025 tons (unless you were naturally irritating), you would ask for 250 grams...
From Wild WebMink
Driving Open Source
Here’s my interview with this month’s Oracle Java Magazine about the forces driving open source and the need for open source skills.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Should Computer Science Teachers Be Paid More Than Gym Teachers
I first ran into the question of paying faculty based on the subject they taught some years ago during an industry advisory meeting for a university computer science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
At the VA Center for Applied Engineering
Gave a talk at the VA Center for Applied Engineering today in Indianapolis on the integration of design and analytically driven innovation. Also got to see poster...
From The Eponymous Pickle