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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 My Biased Coin
Pointers, Not Papers
Having just crammed everything we could of a 10 page paper into 5 pages for a workshop paper, I admit that besides (once again) being annoyed by having to go through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Knols are Going Away
I was just sent a message warning me that the Google Knol system will be retired by April 30. We experimented with it in the enterprise in 2007, thinking about...
From Schneier on Security
The Keywords the DHS Is Using to Analyze Your Social Media Posts
According to this document, received by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is combing through the gazillions of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Re Engineers the Touch Pad
For the launch of their iPad catalog IKEA has commissioned a clever new take a touch tablet designed for cold weather mittens. Video.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Education-Related Tools
Last month I attended the Consumer Electronics Show, the largest annual convention held in Las Vegas. The 2012 CES featured more than 2,700 vendors, 1.8 million...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS 2012 Strawman Draft Comment Period Open
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, (ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 - Strawman draft) the ACM/IEEE-CS Computer Science Curricula 2013 (CS2013) Strawman...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Shopper Behavioral Shifts
Good piece from the editor of Mobile Marketer. Behavior is changing rapidly and retailers will have to keep up to survive. The data to describe this change is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Propelled Shopping Cart
A Kinect shopping cart that follows people around the store and can track what they put into it. The 'smarter cart' as they put it. Have followed and tested...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Thank You!
I’d like to pause briefly today to acknowledge you — our readers. On behalf of the CCC Council,
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More on Signing Up for DreamSpark and AppHub
About a month ago I wrote a post (DreamSpark and AppHub Sign Up) to help people step through the process of signing up for DreamSpark and AppHub accounts. The problem...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner Quadrant for Business Intelligence
In Tableau Software's blog they publish an overview of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. A useful representation, but hardly quantitative...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Little Things Matter When Learning Math
I recently started tutoring someone for grade 11 college prep1 math. Our first topic was trigonometric equations for solving triangles. When my student got stuck...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Optimization as a Big Data Problem
A very interesting article in the SAS Blog. " ... One of the areas that high-performance analytics has the potential to improve is marketing optimization....
From Computational Complexity
The Internet of the Present
On this blog we rarely get non-spam comments on posts more than a few days old. Sometimes I can bring up a topic I had posted on just a few months ago and no one...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 5
March 6 Hearing: The Science and Space Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on research and development...
From Schneier on Security
Themes from the RSA Conference
Last week was the big RSA Conference in San Francisco: something like 20,000 people. From what I saw, these were the major themes on the show floor: Companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Documenting the Human Face of Big Data
A photographic project. What is it and what are its implications? More here.