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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 Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Forest Monitoring
In Google Lat Long: Having been involved in several crowd sourcing efforts, its always good to see further and more complex examples. Mapping would seem to be...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Taking Advantage of the Interest in Games
I am writing this at the Games, Learning and Society Conference (http://www.glsconference.org/2012/index.html) in Madison, Wisconsin. This is an interesting and...
From Putting People First
Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman Studying Hacker Culture
As a grad student in anthropology, Gabriella Coleman was warned that studying the culture of computer hackers would make it hard to get a job teaching in a university...
From Schneier on Security
Economic Analysis of Bank Robberies
Yes, it's clever: The basic problem is the average haul from a bank job: for the three-year period, it was only
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cricket, 400, and Complexity Theory
A random cross-section of our first 400 posts (src) Brian Lara remains the only cricket batsman to score 400 or more runs in one innings of a Test Match. In fact...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My STEMinist Profile
Back in April, I was featured on STEMinist and forgot to mention it here!Find out what my answers were to such questions as 'What inspired you to pursue a career...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VSN Strategies
I have just become involved in a new collaboration with James Tenser of VSN Strategies. " ... Consultant to the retail consumer products industry and authorSee...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science in the Common Core
Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I really believe that we need more computer science in education long before university. The only national influence...
From Schneier on Security
Far-Fetched Scams Separate the Gullible from Everyone Else
Interesting conclusion by Cormac Herley, in this paper: "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They are From Nigeria?" Abstract: False positives cause many promising detection...
From Apophenia
CFP: public-facing papers on Youth Movements / Youth Organizations
Scholars, researchers, & academics – we need your help!
From Putting People First
The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life
People create profiles on social network sites and Twitter accounts against the background of an audience. This paper by Alice Marwick argues that closely examining...
From Putting People First
Context is key to making computers better conversationalists
When communicating, context is king. A breakthrough in modelling context in human communication could make computers better conversationalists, according to cognitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Postal Strategy
It has been obvious that the US Postal Service needs to adapt to change. Wharton discusses this in some detail. They have changed considerably, introducing many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Degrees of Separation
In CACM: Reexamining the popular meme of tight connectivity of our social network. The small world. In 2000 we visited the Santa Fe Institute for a workshop...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST
“How is the general population of researchers and institutions to meet [the needs of] ‘Big Data’?” That was the question posed last week by Ian Foster, director...
From Computational Complexity
The Ketchup Problem
MIT scientists are working on a bottle of ketchup where you CAN get out every last drop. See here for details and some nice videos of the new bottle in action....
From Schneier on Security
Apple Patents Data-Poisoning
It's not a new idea, but Apple Computer has received a patent on "Techniques to pollute electronic profiling": Abstract: Techniques to pollute electronic profiling...
From Wild WebMink