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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 Teachers Association
Teaching with Lousy Health
There are about 1800 students at Henry M. Gunn HS (Palo Alto, CA). Enrollment in CS has grown from 90 students three years ago to 110 to 130 last year to 190 this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beauty Packaging to Link Real and Virtual Worlds
This was an area we explored at length. During a visit to China in 2003 I saw a remarkable number of examples in retail spaces. Now QR codes and smartphones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cray Takes on Big Data
Via Mark Montgomery of KYield. ... Supercomputing and big data appliances. Venerable Cray take a plunge into the thirst for big data understanding and analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Tries Finances
In another move forward for AI-style interactions, IBM is working with Citicorp:" ... IBM and Citigroup recently announced plans to explore how America's favorite...
From Wild WebMink
? Lessig! Doctorow! London!
The Open Rights Conference is coming up in London on March 24 and has a glittering array of speakers including Lawrence Lessig and Cory Doctorow. Read all about...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visualization Technologies for Human-Environment Interactions
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) — the newest of the national synthesis centers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) focused...
From Schneier on Security
Cloud Computing As a Man-in-the-Middle Attack
This essay uses the interesting metaphor of the man-in-the-middle attacker to describe cloud providers like Facebook and Google. Basically, they get in the middle...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Register for CSTA's 2012 Annual CS&IT Conference
CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference This is the big and best professional development event of the year for middle and high school computer science educators. The program...
From The Noisy Channel
Making Love with Data: Avinash Kaushik
Just watch the presentation, which stole the show at Strata 2012. The written word cannot do justice to Avinash’s passion and his extraordinary ability to communicate...
From Schneier on Security
NSA's Secure Android Spec
The NSA has released its specification for a secure Android. One of the interesting things it's requiring is that all data be tunneled through a secure VPN: Inter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Shopper Centric e-Book
From DemandTec. This was precisely the approach we emphasized for many years within the enterprise. It is all about how the shopper behaves in their increasingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uplift Modeling
A new term? The term perhaps, but we have been doing this new thing for years. It deserves attention, now being lionized as the next big thing in predictive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Key to Focus
A good interview by Todd Henry with Peter Bregman. On focus and priorities. " ... In this interview, Peter describes how he came to his 18 minute methodology,...
From Computational Complexity
When a+b is harder than b+a
Is 1+4 a harder calculation than 4+1? It may be if you are 2+3 years old. I asked my 7-2 year old great niece Noelle the following sequence of questions. I include...
From The Eponymous Pickle
iRobot Reorganizes
iRobot, the company that first brought practical robotics into the home, is reorganizing. Based on what they have done well, this makes sense. " ... iRobot...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST Establishes National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
At a press briefing featuring high-ranking Federal, state, and local officials on its Gaithersburg, MD, campus last month,
From Schneier on Security
How Changing Technology Affects Security
Security is a tradeoff, a balancing act between attacker and defender. Unfortunately, that balance is never static. Changes in technology affect both sides. Society...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Using Kinect for Windows with XNA Curriculum
I mentioned Rob Miles new Using Kinect for Windows with XNA curriculum in Monday
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast is bit packing?
Integers values are typically stored using 32 bits. Yet if you are given an array of integers between 0 and 131 072, you could store these numbers using as little...
From The Eponymous Pickle