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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Projects Among Popular Mechanics’ Breakthrough Awardees
Popular Mechanics, the American Magazine which features regular articles on science and technology, released their annual breakthrough awardees earlier this week...
From Wild WebMink
Legal Topics For Practical People
The track I’m chairing at Open World Forum in Paris next week is now public and I think we’ve got a pretty hot schedule there what with Richard Fontana and Bradley...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks and Passbook
An example of location enabled loyalty and payment in a mainstream mobility solution. We will see more of this on many platforms. " ... Starbucks said Thursday...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Road to GHC12
After a one-year hiatus, I'm back at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing! We took a road trip down to Baltimore, and despite a feverish baby andView...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Break Some Rules
Innovators should Think like a startup, break some rules. " ... When pioneering new technology in an emerging industry segment, it's important to think outside...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Still Accepting Entries for our “Computing Research in Action” Series
A few weeks ago, we blogged about our new “Computing Research in Action” series, which is an expanded version of our “Highlight of the Week” feature. We’ve received...
From The Eponymous Pickle
User Friendly Robot Worker
Article in IEEE Spectrum: On rethinking the factory worker. Quite a coup if it works. And would be quite a worry to employment if it does. I still have my doubts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Agility Article
The below requires registration, but I found it useful.Business Agility Insights Issue 4In a recent survey from eBizQ, nearly two-thirds of business and IT professionals...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Quantum Supremacy or Classical Control?
Final summations of the Kalai-Harrow debate source—our congratulations William Unruh is a professor in the Theoretical Physics group of the University of British...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Additional Indignity
I often talk with my students about the impact of technology on our lives: the good and the bad, the capabilities and the limitations. A great example of this...
From Computational Complexity
Close to Genius
The MacArthur Foundation announced their 2012 Fellows, also know as the genius awards. Among the list two names of interest to my readers, Maria Chudnovsky and ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lifecycle Management and Innovation
Good piece in Consumer Goods Technology about the new and growing relationship between PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and innovation. How it can help retailers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal on the XBox
We also looked at how to link beauty to digital technology, this is an interesting play. " ... L'Oréal Seeks Women in Unlikely Place: On Xbox ... Beauty and Style...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Invests Nearly $15 million in Big Data and New Interagency Challenge Announced
Today at a briefing on Capitol Hill titled, “Big Data, Bigger Opportunities“, hosted by Tech America, The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Price Shopping Survey
An overview of a recent survey on how shoppers use online price comparison before buying in-store.
From Schneier on Security
Authentication Stories
Anecdotes from Asia on seals versus signatures on official documents.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spying Cameras
Covered broadly in the news. Proof of concepts developed to use smartphone cameras for remote spying via malicious Trojans. Not an unexpected capability. . And...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corporate Mobile Strategies
In Fast Company: Good overview of the need for mobile strategy. Also some excellent examples to consider. I have found that a coherent strategy for small companies...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson