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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
Ruth Hartsook’s CS Teaching Resources
Ruth Hartsook posted links to some interactive web based teaching resources on the Advanced Placement Computer Science discussion forums that I think are just wonderful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Consumer Products Companies Know
Gib Bassett of Teradata on What Consumer Products Companies Know About Consumers. " ... With widespread adoption of mobile devices and participation in socialSome...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Awards $50 million for Cybersecure Research Projects
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $50 million for research projects designed to build a secure cyber society and protect the US infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsico Search for Tech in Brazil
In CGT: " ... PepsiCo is bringing PepsiCo10, its three-year-old technology incubator program, to Brazil. "Along with the search for new ideas, PepsiCo10 supports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Behavior and Psychology
Correspondent Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk In her Interdisciplinary Blog, ' ... "You can talk about behavior without knowing anything about psychology" according to Christopher...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Easy Button for Big Data?
Bill Franks, who has an excellent book out on big data analytics, writes about the lack of an 'easy button' for big data. Insightful thoughts. " ... It is good...
From Schneier on Security
Quantum Cryptography
Long article on quantum cryptography and cryptanalysis.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can We Afford To Wait For a CS Sputnik Moment
I was having a talk with a teacher online recently and he reminded me of the Sputnik scare that started a lot of renewed interest in science and math in education...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictions for Self Driving Cars
Recorded Future posts one of their future looking views of the future of self driving cars. Another good example of how their technology works, especially for...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Interactive Storytelling Talk at a Local Sci-Fi Con
An unexpected opportunity presented itself when I was asked to speak at a local sci-fi convention, Can-Con. A friend had referred me as a potential academic speaker...
From Computational Complexity
A new kind of Spam
(In this post I quote attempted posts to the blog. I transcribe them as they are, so if you see a missing period or awkward language, its not me (this time) its...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM’s Watson Collaborating with MDs
A couple weeks ago, we featured the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) release of a new landmark study titled Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning...
From Putting People First
Latest RSA Animate on the truth about dishonesty
In this new RSA Animate, Dan Ariely, bestselling author and professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University, explores the circumstances under...
From Putting People First
Book: Observing the User Experience
Observing the User Experience A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research by Elizabeth Goodman, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pentaho and Cisco Partner for Big Data Analytcs
In A Press Release: We did lots of work with Cisco, especially in the retail space with devices that enabled price checking. Was involved in a number of innovation...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Teaching Students About Their Digital Footprints
This year my high school added a new course that is a survey course for computing. One of the first lessons we did covered what a digital footprint was; how it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Mobile is Remaking Marketing
A useful presentation by correspondent Phil Hendrix of Immr and GigaOM. Contains a number of good case studies on the subject.
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerability in Windows 8 Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
This is the first one discovered, I think.
From The Eponymous Pickle