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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
Solving the Turing Test by 2029?
At The Wall Street Journal’s
From My Biased Coin
On NPR (Morning Edition)
Groupon is being discussed on NPR (Morning Edition), which means we get a phone call again. Our graphs are reproduced on the site, and John Byers speaks for us...
From Schneier on Security
Naming Pets
Children are being warned that the name of their first pet should contain at least eight characters and a digit.
From Putting People First
Digital devices as embodied experiences in remote Indian village
In arguing that digital technologies enable embodied experiences that reshape the very ways in which we conceptualize our everyday life, Nishant Shah, founder and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows 8 Developer Camps and Hackathons
A new series of Windows 8 developer events are coming soon! These are special two-day events, with a DevCamp on day one featuring a full day of sessions plus an...
From Geeking with Greg
Puzzling outcomes in A/B testing
A fun upcoming KDD 2012 paper out of Microsoft, "Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Five Puzzling Outcomes Explained" (PDF), has a lot of great insights...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Patent for Head Mounted Display Tech
Now Apple has also entered the fray with a patent on head-mounted display technology, with a different approach. In Slashdot. In the next iPhone? If only it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Medical Sensors
In Medgadget: From LifeWatch AG (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland) An Android smartphone packed with medical sensors. Quite remarkable: " .... The tests...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics at Work
Finally made it to the 2010 book: Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results by Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris and Robert Morison. A fairly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fog Computing
In Wired: Fighting leaks with the spread of believable misinformation. This is a very old idea, but using systems technology to do it effectively is not.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Blog
A blog devoted to Data Science, and apparently often concerning Big Data: Data Science 101: Learning to be a Data Scientist. Short and generally accessible articles...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First Person: Margo Seltzer on Women in CS
Harvard computer scientist and CCC Council member
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Teachers
Next week is the CSTA Computer Science & Information Technology Conference in Irvine CA. I
From Schneier on Security
So You Want to Be a Security Expert
I regularly receive e-mail from people who want advice on how to learn more about computer security, either as a course of study in college or as an IT person considering...
From Putting People First
Designing for context: the multiscreen ecosystem
In a long article, designer Avi Itzkovitch explains how, when connecting applications across smart devices, UX designers can create product ecosystems that dynamically...
From Wild WebMink
Bosonics
What is a Higgs Boson? I think this animation from PHD Comics is brilliant.
From Wild WebMink
How ACTA Nearly Won
ACTA was defeated today in the European Parliament, but one British Liberal-Democrat MEP voted for it. Understanding why helps us to understand how the political...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junaio Virtual Reality Update
Junaio has updated their mobile App capabilities for commercial augmented reality. Full report accessible here. Also see a short video explaining mobile augmented...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
James Paul Gee's Games for Change Keynote
Dr James Paul Gee is one of gaming's best advocates by promoting the fact that good games are good for learning. But what exactly is a 'good' game? What makesGames...
From The Eponymous Pickle