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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
Are You The Best Part Of A Student’s Day/
Yesterday is used a quote from an educator friend of mine that “I may be the best thing that happens in my students and my staff's lives that day. I can handle...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 10
Congress has returned from its August break, and will attempt to get a little work done before it breaks for fall campaigning in early October. September 12 Hearing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Yes I’m Still Excited about Computer Science
It’s the start of a new school year and a new chapter in my life. I thought I would report this from about a year ago. The short version is that 38 years after...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Maintenance
Old approaches to maintenance doesn't work any more. A predictive maintenance in a smarter planet. A favorite topic of mine, including context in prediction:...
From Wild WebMink
Tweetlog for September 10, 2012
Some cool demo shots of Lytro’s refocussable photos: Lytro http://t.co/DBUj0phy September 10, 2012 at 09:02AM - – - – - Chill out. Watch some clouds drift by http...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tabeo: A Child Focused Tablet
In CIO: Not sure I agree. Why not just have a collection of Apps aimed at the child? Yet I imagine it will engage the parent that is not comfortable with the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding People and Places with Photos
In Queue: Was discussed this today in an enterprise innovation lunch, relating photos to reality. I have worked in this space before, and it deserves a better...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Will tablets kill PCs?
I have always been a fan of the personal computer. I worked all summer once to buy myself a cloned PC XT. I probably would not be a computer science researcher...
From My Biased Coin
Happiness Is...
NSF saying yes to your grant... (Isn't that one of the lyrics?)Once again, thanks to the NSF, I get to remain in business* for the next 3-4 years or so. (Arguably...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Tech’s New Wave, Driven by Data”
Technology writer Steve Lohr had a great piece about the future of computing — and other fields — in The New York Times yesterday: TECHNOLOGY tends to cascade into...
From Schneier on Security
Another Stuxnet Post
Larry Constantine disputes David Stanger's book about Stuxnet: So, what did he get wrong? First of all, the Stuxnet worm did not escape into the wild. The analysis...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 September 2012
Happy Monday! I actually want to start this post with something my friend Paul R Wood @paulrwood said on Twitter last week. Paul is a technology director at aDoug...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Consumer Research
A worthwhile reprise based on several comments and calls. Virtual research is a powerful concept:We didn’t just decide to leverage some industry standard research...
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
Useful Download Links for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Development
Part of my job is to help people find valuable resources. I especially like it when they are free. Free is good. These links are for students, faculty and professional...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Welcome to My New Blog Home
This blog has actually existed for a while but had not been my real blog home. Recent changes (Leaving Microsoft) mean that I can no longer blog about computerprevious...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CEO Data Data Driven Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Colleague Julie Anixter makes good points " ... there is one very heartening trend that we're observing as the drumbeat for CEO action...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM RedBooks
Last week at a very informative Smarter Commerce meeting I was re-introduced to IBM Redbooks. Positioned as 'no cost know how'. They are written by a considerable...
From The Noisy Channel
Content, Connections, and Context
This is keynote presentation I delivered at the Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web, held as part of the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender...
From The Eponymous Pickle