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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
Studio K
The other day the Kodu team announced Studio K. What is Studio K you ask? In my opinion it
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Universal Remotes
I see in Engadget the military is looking for universal remotes for drone fleets. I was thinking about the general idea of how to make a remote universal the other...
From My Biased Coin
Simons Institute Call
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the call at http://simons.berkeley.edu/cfp_summer2012.html for the Call for Proposals for Simons Institute programs. The deadline...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shelf Publishing on the Kindle
Brought to my attention. Worth examining as an alternative to blogging with the ability to directly monetize the interaction.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Safeway Digitizes Club Card
An approach I think will continue to advance. Safeway takes some good steps. Making connections more digital, more App-like. This will connect data, information...
From Schneier on Security
England's Prince Phillip on Security
On banning guns: "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat,which he could do very...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Traditions of New Year
Teachers get to celebrate two New Years per year : The secular one in winter and the academic one in summer. As I finalize my grades, I can't help but reflect...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 18
June 19 Hearing: The Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the public policy...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On the quality of academic software
Software is eating the world. Despite a poor year, Facebook has a market capitalization of $65 billion. This little company with barely 2000 developers is worth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Code Failures
Instructive examples of where the use of QR codes failed for specific brands. " ... review of hundreds of 2D-based campaigns, for every one campaign that does...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Academies
Last week, the National Academies released a report
From Computational Complexity
Name My Book
As many of you know I have been working on a non-technical popular science book on the P versus NP for a general audience. The book is mostly finished but the biggest...
From Wild WebMink
Book Me In The USA!
If you’d like me to speak at your corporate event, user group or conference in the USA, you’ll be interested to know that I expect to be in the USA in mid-July...
From Schneier on Security
Honor System Farm Stands
Many roadside farm stands in the U.S. are unmanned. They work on the honor system: take what you want, and pay what you owe. And today at his farm stand, Cochran...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 June 2012
Some of you may remember that I was nominated for the Top 30 Fascinating Technology Teacher blog voting. I came in at number 7. Thanks to all of you who voted'Who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Associated Risks
In GigaOM: This goes to the expected places, well written and worth examining closely for any business. Further, I think that some of the companies that are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kinect Glasses
Microsoft intending to compete with Google Glasses using Kinect Glasses. Will Mac Glasses be next? Will we all voluntarily identify with this level of geeky...
From The Eponymous Pickle
OR Exchange for Analytics Questions
Just discovered this. The OR Exchange. Constructed by Informs to act as a social exchange for questions about business analytics. I have been a member ofInforms...
From The Eponymous Pickle