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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 Wild WebMink
Still Nutty After All These Years
Madness @ The Roundhouse, a set on Flickr. I was lucky enough to win tickets for an iTunes Festival show again this year. I was even luckier that it was my wife’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automatic Mapping
Via MIT News: A prototype wearable sensor system that can automatically map a building interior. Seen as useful for emergency responders. " ... In experiments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Don't Rely Entirely on Big Data
CIO Article: An interesting article, though I don't quite agree with the premise. Unless your problem is very simply constructed you cannot have it depend strictly...
From Wild WebMink
But What About Patents?
News of government support for open source in the US and EU this week is great. But at the same time, software patents are stifling innovation and the same administrations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Obsession of Mobile
Mobile makes people more productive. It is clear that it has become an obsession to be connected for many people. Productive, but to a breaking point?
From Geeking with Greg
Code Monster and teaching programming to kids
I recently launched Code Monster from Crunchzilla. It helps parents teach a little programming to their kids. A lot of parents want their kids to learn a little...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Artificial Intelligence for Developing Technology for Older Adults – AI for Gerontechnology Symposium
The following is a contribution to this blog from Parisa Rashidi, Assistant Professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. In this blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Full Scale Virtual Research Continued
I made another working visit to John Milby's Full Scale Virtual Research laboratory today and remain very impressed by their abilities and direction. He has taken...
From Putting People First
How cultural differences affect mobile use
CNN reports on mobile phone culture and how use differs starkly across cultures. Whereas the article is rather superficial, the “open mic” videos from New York...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Processing Workshop Materials
Last weekend I taught a one-day workshop called 'Create Interactive Art and More! Learn to Program with Processing.' I developed the materials from scratch for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Funding of Innovation
In Technology Review: On the funding of innovation. The thoughts of Nathan Myhrvold.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Find The Bug
The big problem I have with using professional quality sample code in class is that it is too professional. By that what I mean is that it is too complete and often...
From Apophenia
Free Speech, Context, and Visibility: Protesting Racist Ads
On Tuesday, Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy was arrested for “criminal mischief” – or “the willful damaging of property” – when she responded to disturbingly...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Microsoft Groundbreaking Speech and Report on CS Education
Today Microsoft's General Counsel Brad Smith spoke at the Brookings Institution at an event on education and immigration reform and the presentation (and the report...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vanishing Electronics
Research into disappearing electronics. Electronic 'pills' that dissolve inside the body after their function is done.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics in Action Talk
Analytics In Action: What do Jeopardy, Pampers and Major League Baseball have in Common?A number of my former colleagues will be presenting. October 24, 2012Full...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Provide Economic Data
An economist looks at how smartphones are a gold mine of economic data. " ... An economist taps into payment apps for their every financial transaction ... "
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
GNS Healthcare and Aetna Collaborate to Make Use of Big Data
GNS Healthcare, a healthcare analytics company and Aetna, an American managed health care organization, are collaborating to make use of GNS’ supercomputer “REFS”...
From The Eponymous Pickle