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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
Story of a CIA Burglar
This is a fascinating story of a CIA burglar, who worked for the CIA until he tried to work against the CIA. The fact that he stole code books and keys from foreign...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Layers and Layers
Several years ago a teacher asked me to help with a problem one of her students was having. The student had decided to combine all of the semester’s projects into...
From Putting People First
Five new articles on UX Matters
Tips on Prototyping for Usability Testing By Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, Philadelphia, PA, USA Because user research studies peoples...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
What’s Blue and White and Red All Over?
Election and debate special from GLL Aram Harrow is both a computer scientist and a physicist—something that makes him unique and special. Few people can explain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Government Big Data Initiatives
Information Week on multiple government big data initiatives. And you can add another, the DARPA xData initiative. " ... A trio of federal agencies is looking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Clouds e-Book
A 74 free e-book. Registration required. There is much confusion on this topic.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Will I get a job with this degree?
In Quebec, we have had massive student protests. Students were asking for free higher education. It seems that things have quieted down as the new government has...
From Computational Complexity
Cruel XOR unusual Punishment
(This post was done with the help of Lane Hemaspaandra and John Purtilo.) The 8th amendment of the US Constitution states Excessive bail shall not be required...
From Schneier on Security
New Developments in Captchas
In the never-ending arms race between systems to prove that you're a human and computers that can fake it, here's a captcha that tests whether you have human feelings...
From Putting People First
Videos of keynote presentations at The Web and Beyond 2012
The Web and Beyond is a bi-annual conference organized by Chi Nederland, focused on the practice and business of user experience. On September 26, our 425 attendees...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 October 2012
It’s the Columbus Day holiday in the US. Or as we call it in my family Leif Landed First day. Either way a lot of schools have a holiday today. I’m traveling today...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2012: A Personal Report
Human-computer information retrieval (HCIR) is the study of information retrieval techniques that integrate human intelligence and algorithmic search to help people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peapod's Virtual Store
In PopAI: More on Peapod's Virtual stores, including a good video of it in operation. " ... The campaign stretches all across the U.S., littering 100 subway This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where is Artificial General Intelligence?
We expected Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to follow quickly when we formed an artificial intelligence team and lab in the late 1980's. Surely once we started...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
NSF Funding Opportunities and Effective Proposal Writing Strategies (GHC12)
Even though I'm a Canadian grad student, the Grace Hopper session on National Science Foundation (NSF) opportunities was very relevant to me. As my collaborators...
From My Biased Coin
Allerton Panel
This year was the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (website). Hard to believe it's been around that long. I think my first...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Go Lean, Go Agile: Are We There Yet? (GHC12)
The concept of agile development has always fascinated me, particularly because I haven't had the opportunity yet to work on an agile team. (This despite having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Research Mind Mapping
I have used IThoughtsHD for some time as a mind mapping tool. The main reason for choosing it was that it was usable as an iPad App and could readily communicate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla's Lab is Saved
An example of unappreciated genius. Nikola Tesla. Wireless and energy transmission pioneer. I have seen the ruins of his lab from afar. I have stayed in a room...
From The Eponymous Pickle