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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 Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computing Projects for Girls
This is a big topic on my mind of late. There is some discussion of this in the comments on my Boring Projects post and well as some responses via Twitter. Joanne...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Officially Launches Robotics Grand Challenge – Watch Pet-Proto Robot in Action
Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially kicked off its newest Grand Challenge, DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). As we’ve blogged previously...
From Schneier on Security
Risks of Data Portability
Peter Swire and Yianni Lagos have pre-published a law journal article on the risks of data portability. It specifically addresses an EU data protection regulation...
From Putting People First
Core77 report on the Design Research Conference
A few days before the EPIC conference in Savannah, Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design organised and hosted its yearly Design Research conference. Although no videos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dash Boards and all that
Interestingly thoughts by Stephen Few. On the use of dash board displays for control. Dashboards are just simple displays.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Up again, Learning Again.
I have many close watchers who have noticed this blog has been dark for several days. This is the first time this happened for years. A number of people noticed...
From My Biased Coin
STOC 2013 Submissions
I was asked to post the following regarding STOC 2013 submissions:1) Please read the Call for Papers carefully and pay special attentionto length and formatting...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Let Me Buy You a Beer: A Message from a CSTA Advocate
While I'm truly honored to be the first recipient of the CSTA Leadership Cohort APP (Advocacy Points Program) award, I wish to recognize members of CSTA Chicago...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces “Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability” (XPS) Program
This week, the National Science Foundation issued a solicitation for its new Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) program. The program aims to support groundbreaking...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
When is a bitmap faster than an integer list?
You can represent a list of distinct integers no larger than N using exactly N bits: if the integer i appears in your list, you set the i th bit to true. Bits for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Boring Projects
Recently someone I really respect posted a recommendation against using Visual Basic saying “ I find most textbooks for Visual Basic to have boring assignmentsSkins...
From Wild WebMink
Concentration of Power
Hearing that Amazon had remotely wiped someone’s Kindle, I decided to investigate and find out if it had actually happened. It hadn’t, but what had happened instead...
From updated sporadically at best
Why Do Women Want to "Have It All?"
Last week, former State Department director Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic piece "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" spurred a flurry of internet discussion: there...
From updated sporadically at best
FAQ: Applying to Graduate School for Computer Science
Over the years, I have gotten various e-mails asking me about what it is like to be a graduate student at MIT and how to apply. I have compiled this list of frequently...
From Putting People First
How Xerox uses analytics, big data and ethnography to help government solve “big problems”
Through the application of analytics to Big Data, as well as ethnography — the design and implementation of qualitative field studies to observe cultural patterns...
From Computational Complexity
Song of the Complexity Classes
I tweeted the audio of this song last week and here is the video. Recorded at Dagstuhl on October 18th. Written by Fred Green who also plays piano. Performed by...
From Schneier on Security
Camera Jammer that Protects Licence Plates
noPhoto reacts to a camera flash, and then jams the image with a bright light. The website makes the point that this is legal, but that can't last.
From Putting People First
Smartphone ethnography apps
The Qualitative Report website contains a very hard to find but highly recommended page on smartphone ethnography apps (or, as they call it, “Mobile and Cloud Qualitative...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson