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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
Grades and Tuitions are Inflated
Data and graphs from Mark Perry on the inflation of grades and college costs. Are they related? Hearing more talk about the necessity of a college education....
From Wild WebMink
Java ME Fragmentation
Sun acknowledged in 2008 and 2009 that Java ME was fragmented – and had been for years – without any help from Android. More in today’s article on ComputerWorld...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Scanning the Robots at ICRA 2012
Our colleagues at IEEE’s Spectrum have posted a neat montage of the exhibit hall at last week’s
From Schneier on Security
The Problem of False Alarms
The context is tornado warnings: The basic problem, Smith says, it that sirens are sounded too often in most places. Sometimes they sound in an entire county for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolving Mind Mapping
I worked with concept and mind mapping for a number of years, and use it still for consulting interactions. It is still evolving. Allowing us to co-create conversations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Centenary
ACM Turing Centenary Celebration to Be Webcast Live!If you can't attend ACM's Turing Centenary Celebration, you can still experience the thrill of rubbing elbows...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
21st Century Computer Architecture
In April, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) commissioned members of the computer architecture research community to generate a short report to help guide...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Planning a Summer Institute
I think my last blog was written while I was monitoring my final exam. This one is written as I take a break from planning for a summer institute for teachers for...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 29
May 31 Hearing: The Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on international proposals to regulate...
From My Biased Coin
More Entrepreneurial Harvard?
One thing I noticed talking to CS graduates from Harvard this year is -- entirely anecdotally -- more seem to be going to small start-ups. This has been an increasing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taming the Big Data Wave
I have been reading: Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics by Bill Franks. I read this in preparation...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2012: Call for Participation
Human-computer Information Retrieval (HCIR) combines research from the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and information retrieval (IR), placing an emphasis...
From Computational Complexity
Theory Jobs 2012
The theoretical computer science job market has mostly settled so time for the annual spring jobs posts. I set up a Google Spreadsheet that everyone can edit so...
From Schneier on Security
Backdoor Found in Chinese-Made Military Silicon Chips
We all knew this was possible, but researchers have found the exploit in the wild: Claims were made by the intelligence agencies around the world, from MI5, NSA...
From Schneier on Security
Interview with a Safecracker
The legal kind. It's interesting: Q: How realistic are movies that show people breaking into vaults? A: Not very! In the movies it takes five minutes of razzle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 29 May 2012
Links are a day late because of the Memorial Day holiday. A day of remembrance. I spent a little time with my father, a combat veteran of World War II which was...
From Putting People First
The right to be forgotten
Dr Paul Bernal, a lecturer in information technology, intellectual property and media law at the University of East Anglia (UK), provides clarification on what...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science