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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 Putting People First
Exploring mobile-only Internet use (South Africa)
Exploring mobile-only Internet use: results of a training study in urban South Africa Using an ethnographic action research approach, the study by Jonathan Donner...
From Putting People First
Meet the 2020 Chinese consumer
By 2020, Chinese consumers will join the ranks of the world
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Shaped USB Drive
It looks great. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification in a Productive Role
More on gamification. Also known as serious play, a means to use the dynamics of games to get things done more quickly or efficiently, or to even get them done...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Navy Announces
Earlier today at a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
From Schneier on Security
BitCoin Security Musings
Jon Callas talks about BitCoin's security model, and how susceptible it would be to a Goldfinger-style attack (destroy everyone else's BitCoins).
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ARPA-E
Earlier this month, the Advanced Projects Research Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) released a $150 million funding opportunity open to all breakthrough energy technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Retailing
An interview about where cyberspace meets retail. The interaction is getting more common, and amount being sold online is challenging many assumptions.
From Wild WebMink
Why Cuban Hates Patents
Why does a successful entrepreneur like Mark Cuban hate software patents so much? Surely they are just the sort of business tool he would value? I explain why in...
From Computational Complexity
Judea Pearl wins Turing Award
(In this age of lightenting fast communication I suspect you all already know that Judea Pearl won the Turing Award. Even so, it is worth posting about.) Judea...
From Schneier on Security
Non-Lethal Heat Ray
The U.S. military has a non-lethal heat ray. No details on what "non-lethal" means in this context.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pex4fun, an online lab for APCS
Are you teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science? Are you looking for supplemental exercises that may help you students with the concepts? If so this announcement...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Literacy: Not Just for English Class Anymore
Do you remember the "writing across the curriculum" push? If you've been teaching for more than about eight years, I'm sure you do - in addition to everything else...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Judea Pearl is the 2011 A.M. Turing Award Recipient
The Association for Computing Machinery has awarded the 2011 A.M. Turing Award, considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in Computing, to Judea Pearl, a Professor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Locately Shopper Intercept
Locately on DemandTec. I was recently pointed to this path-to-purchase approach that I had not heard of before, another example of an instrumented component,...
From Schneier on Security
Assorted Schneier News Stories
I have several stories in the news (and one podcast), mostly surrounding the talks I gave at the RSA Conference last month.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bricklin on the Tablet Revolution
Dan Bricklin, inventor of the Visicalc spreadsheet, provides some insight into the tablet revolution. There are some clear similarities and striking differences...
From The Eponymous Pickle