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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 Wild WebMink
? Patents and Innovation
An interview with a pharmaceutical industry analyst on the BBC today illustrated a key point about patents and reminds us they are about stimulating, not rewarding...
From Schneier on Security
Prisons in the U.S.
Really good article on the huge incarceration rate in the U.S., its causes, its effects, and its value: Over all, there are now more people under "correctional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Story Telling
Steve King writes in the Small Business Blog about the rise of storytelling and a number of projects underway in that space.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP Posts Comments to Public Access RFIs
Back in November, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued two Requests for Information (RFI) soliciting broad public input about “the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wireless Brain Wave Sensors
In SCiam: General, non technical article on wireless encephalogram monitors. A number of current gaming examples are mentioned.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Beauty, Usefulness and Objectivity
How do you bring together objective truth, analytical precision and visually pleasing visualizations? Can all the infographic spin be removed, or does the mere...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Some Serious Fun With Kodu Programming
As regular readers know I am a huge fan of Kodu, the highly graphical, easy to program game development product from Microsoft Research. It is easy enough that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd Sourced Ale
A simple example of crowd sourcing, not sure if it a very good one, but the application in food and drink is unusual.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Signage Continued
I will have to mention Keith Kelsen's book: Unleashing the Power of Digital Signage once again. An excellent book that I am making my way through now. I particularly...
From Computational Complexity
Why do we have awards?
You have a month to get in your nominations for the Donald E. Knuth Prize and the SIGACT Distinguished Service Award. Why do we have these awards and others like...
From Computational Complexity
Dusting off my bookshelf I find a book on FORTRAN
The following quote is from the back of a book that I dusted off and took off of my shelf recently: FORTRAN is one of the oldest high-level languages and remains...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Federal Move to Mobile
The government is usually late to such moves. They pioneer some aspects, then wait for a long time. But when they finally decide to move it legitimizes it forThe...
From Schneier on Security
The Idaho Loophole
Brian C. Kalt (2012), "The Idaho Loophole," Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 93, No. 2. Abstract: This article argues that there is a 50-square-mile swath of Idaho...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
No Room in the Inn
I spent yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology, an outstanding university across the river from New York City. The occasion was a high school computer science...
From Wild WebMink
ACTA
Are the European Commission just trying to provoke us? Having seen the depth of feeling over SOPA and PIPA, you would expect the European Commission to regard ACTA...
From Schneier on Security
Possibly the Most Incompetent TSA Story Yet
The storyline: TSA screener finds two pipes in passenger's bags. Screener determines that they're not a threat. Screener confiscates them anyway, because of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G AdSpend, Facebook Linked to Layoffs
This article suggests that a not unexpected round of belt tightening at P&G is being caused by lower cost online advertising in venues like Facebook and Google...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
No Room in the Inn–I Mean Schedule
I spent yesterday at Stevens Institute of Technology, an outstanding university across the river from New York City. The occasion was a high school computer science...
From Computer Science Teachers Association