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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 Computational Complexity
March Madness
Once again, America's favorite binary tree, the NCAA Men's National Championship Bracket. The tree seems to get more unbalanced every year. There are four regions...
From Wild WebMink
Free Money!
Kiva are giving away $25 to anyone who asks today. It’s true. The catch? You have to loan the money to someone who has far, far less money than you do and who will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualization on the iPad
iPad visualization Apps. Some interesting examples of ways to visualize things on a tablet. Tablets are ways to simplify interaction, as are visualization technologies...
From Schneier on Security
Jamming Speech with Recorded Speech
This is cool: The idea is simple. Psychologists have known for some years that it is almost impossible to speak when your words are replayed to you with a delay...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Tag Challenge: 5 Thieves, 5 Cities, 12 Hours on March 31
The U.S. Department of State has unveiled the Tag Challenge, a “social gaming
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 March 2012
In between the usual meetings, email exchanges, phone calls and meeting basketball stars (Why College?) I managed to collect a good number of links this week....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Legacy of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami
Mark Montgomery of Kyield writes about the legacy of the Tohuki earthquake. Its broad managerial implications and governance. This reminds me of the preparation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kahn Academy Has an App
In FastCompany: Look forward to taking a closer look. Will this prove to be a fundamental change in the educational process?" ... Khan Academy, the wildly popular...
From My Biased Coin
A Brief Comment on Conference Software
I'm currently juggling serving on two PCs. One uses HotCRP. One uses EDAS. In my humble opinion, HotCRP hugely dominates EDAS. Perhaps EDAS isn't actually so...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Daylight Savings Time and Costs
MJ Perry on Daylight Savings Time. Including an analysis of its cost. I find the Wikipedia article on the topic also quite interesting.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Allostatic Load and Post Traumatic Stress
Some time ago I got the chance to interact with Allostatix, the best known practitioner of the measurement of Allostatic Load, a multiple component human health...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantifying the Patient of the Future
More on quantifying the patient. Back to who owns the data and can ultimately leverage it. Can you afford the sensors needed? The quantified self movement's practitioners...
From Wild WebMink
? Sunday Cabbage
Close-Up Cabbage, originally uploaded by webmink. I was cooking for 10 today, so decided to saut
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
For March Madness, the Mathematics Behind Bracketology
Just in time for the kickoff of
From My Biased Coin
Housing Day Midterm
As a sign I just must be getting old, I don't get an issue some students have with me.Since I've been professing, I hold the midterm for my class the Thursday before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Acquires Rapportive
Have used Rapportive for years. If you have many contacts it usefully provides information about them on a right hand column in GMail. It makes sense thatthey...
From Wild WebMink
? A Day At The Races
As a child, my parents used to regularly take me point-to-point racing. I wasn’t very interested in the horses, but there were often trees to climb and always a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and the Stalker Economy
Correspondent Jerry Michalski comments in Forbes on Big Data and the Stalker Economy. Based in part on our conference call about Big Data from this Monday. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demographics of Digital Platforms
Colleague Dean DeBiase on this topic. Good points, Dean. " ... One of the most interesting aspects of the analysis issued recently by Nielsen company NM Incite...
From Computer Science Teachers Association