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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
One-on-One With New FTC Chief Technologist Steven Bellovin
Earlier this month, Columbia University computer science professor Steven Bellovin was named the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) chief technologist, taking over...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Octonaut
A space-traveling squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Might Turing Have Won A Turing Award?
A bit of fun Ann Sobel is a software engineer who is active, besides her research and teaching, in the IEEE Society. She regularly runs a column in their Computer...
From Apophenia
Three conversations for parents: navigating networked publics
This post was originally written for A Platform For Good.org, a new site dedicated to creating opportunities for young people and adults to engage with technology...
From Wild WebMink
Iona Tour – Last Gig
We went to hear the last concert of the Iona tour Sunday night. It was a tremendous evening of music with gorgeous soundscapes enfolding intelligent, thoughtful...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“A Robot With a Reassuring Touch”
The New York Times’s John Markoff has penned another article on robotics today, this time featuring the efforts of Rodney Brooks and Rethink Robotics to engineer...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Making the Most of Conference Travel
When I'm lucky enough to go to a conference through school, I try to make the most of the time spent in a new place. This year, the Grace Hopper Celebration of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Seeking Input on New mHealth Public-Private Partnership
The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) announcing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Decorate For Inspiration
Last week Mike Zamansky (blog at C'est la Z Twitter @Zamansky), who is the head computer science teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City, tweeted about...
From Putting People First
A report on the Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston
Report by Experientia researcher Anna Wojnarowska Harvard Medical School hosted this weekend the Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston. The fifth edition of the event...
From Putting People First
Experientia researcher speaking at Harvard’s Medicine 2.0 conference
Experientia researcher Anna Wojnarowska spoke this Sunday at the Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston on her research on the influence of the hospital environment,...
From Putting People First
Book: Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction
Make It So – Interaction design lessons from science fiction By Nathan Shedroff & Christopher Noessel Rosenfeld Media September 2012 ISBNs: paperback (1-933820-98...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extending Watson
IBM continues to seek to extend the potential of AI, now broadening the potential of Watson to the average user. Will this take a Siri like advisers to a new level...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iRobot Acquires Evolution Robotics
In this development, iRobot seems to be playing for more in-home applications, but it still appears to be floor cleaning. Does this mean we are out of other in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2012
One of the ways that one can help young women with an interest in computing and related fields is to provide recognition for the world they have already beenNCWIT...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Controversies For Fun and Discussion
I love a good discussion. Pros and cons and honest and hopefully friendly discussion of issue with different opinions make for good learning experiences. One of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Don’t Panic
The other day I was looking through the analytics for this blog to see what sort of searches people were doing that let them here. Mostly I was seeing things IThe...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 17
September 19 Markup: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will review pending legislation, including a concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi Goes Native in Silicon Valley
In AdAge: An idea we tried as well. Its a useful idea, but think it is more useful to embed silicon valley into your own contexts to get better ideas and testable...
From Wild WebMink