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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
The 25 “Coolest” Computer Networking Research Projects
Network World is out with a list of the 25 “coolest” computer networking research projects: University labs, fueled with millions of dollars in funding and some...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing!
Do you know a digital diva, web chix, or coder girl? Encourage her to apply for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing! It is time to start those applications...
From Computational Complexity
Poset Games are PSPACE-complete
Consider the following game on a poset, each player takes turns picking an element x of a finite poset and removes all y ≥ x. First one to empty the poset wins....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Secure and Trustworthy Computing Solicitation Issued
The National Science Foundation (NSF) last week issued a new solicitation for its Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) program: Cyberspace — a global “virtual”...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA and the Risk of Off-the-Shelf Devices
Interesting article on how the NSA is approaching risk in the era of cool consumer devices. There's a discussion of the president's network-disabled iPad, and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thinking About Databases
Some years ago I had students write a program that involved managing a checkbook and balancing it. I was so proud of it. Later a student told be she linked the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How well does peer review work?
Since the second world war, science has relied on what I call traditional peer review. In this form of peer review, researchers send their manuscript to journal...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Conferences Galore
Early registration for the FOCS conference in New Jersey is September 27th. There is some travel support available for students and postdocs, deadline is this Friday...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Big Data Gets Its Own Photo Album”
From The New York Times‘s Bits Blog: Rick Smolan, the photographer and impresario of media projects, has tackled all sorts of big subjects over the years, from...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of PIN Data
An analysis of 3.4 million four-digit PINs. ("1234" is the most common: 10.7% of all PINs. The top 20 PINs are 26.8% of the total. "8068" is the least common...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Improving the International Focus on STEM
I've been doing a lot of research lately for different projects I have at my school. Every time I research something for my unit plans or projects, I keep stumbling...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to be happier while annoying your wife
About a year ago, I read Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World by Mark Frauenfelder. It is a simple book with a simple message. How to be happy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advancing Analytics to Machine Learning
Things are changing in advanced analytics. Simple statistics is not enough anymore. An example from Orbitz. Read the whole article: "... I lead the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Neuro Courses
Via NeuroRelay: A number of free online courses from Coursera on topics Neurological from Coursera. Not too much on the Neuromarketing side, but worth taking...
From Schneier on Security
Recent Developments in Password Cracking
A recent Ars Technica article made the point that password crackers are getting better, and therefore passwords are getting weaker. It's not just computing speed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
We Are Making Things Too Hard
I once had a conversation with Bill Gates. Yes, in person, face to face. And while I will not go into the whole meeting he said a couple of things that I continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Market Shifts
In Forbes: Adam Hartung: Growth - Dealing with Market Shifts. Innovation Matters; It’s Why You Care More About Apple than Kraft ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling the Cloud
Nicely done overview, with good graphics, about the cloud and its business implications. " ... The next stage of cloud computing will require companies to turn...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Horizons for Erwin Gianchandani
Erwin Gianchandani joined the Computing Community Consortium as our inaugural Director in April 2010. Much of the success that the CCC has achieved is directly...
From The Eponymous Pickle