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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
Teachers: It's Okay to Ask For Help!
I recently participated in a workshop held during SIGCSE 2012 in Raleigh, NC. The workshop was designed to expose beginners to a tool that will help students learn...
From My Biased Coin
Inaccessible
The major reason for my lack of blog posts recently is that I was cut off from the Internet for a week.* Surprisingly, the experience was not so bad. I actually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Brand Engagement on Facebook
In AdAge: " ...The common view that Facebook "likes" equate to brand engagement took a hit last month when the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute shared some interesting...
From Putting People First
Do m-health tools really work? Testing the impact of mobile technology on maternal and child healthcare
MobileActive has posted an in-depth new case study that focuses on evaluating mobile health interventions. Written by Kate Otto, the case study looks at testing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers Challenge the Wallet
Multiple retailers, including Target and Wal-Mart, to take on the challenge of Google Wallet. The consortium is setting up their own mobile payment system to challenge...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA CLIQR Quest Challenge Underway
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is conducting a Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes (CLIQR) Quest Challenge, “a prize-based...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nature Special Edition: Turing at 100
Pioneer of artificial intelligence Alan Turing is celebrated in the 100th anniversary of his birth. A special edition of Nature Magazine. " ... In this collection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever CMO Says Brands Must Adapt
The continued evolution of brands and their environment:Unilever Chief Keith Weed on How Brands Must Adapt to Evolution by Consumer SelectionUnilever chief marketing...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Vision
Some squid can see aspects of light that are invisible to humans, including polarized light. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on the Menlo Report
On Monday USACM submitted comments to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the Menlo Report, which was issued in September 2011. The goal of the report...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Susan Graham Receives CRA
Congratulations to Susan Graham,
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers: The Big Idea
My big idea is a big question. Every cooperative system contains parasites. How do we ensure that society's parasites don't destroy society's systems? It's all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantified Self
In the Economist: The trend of using technology to track your own health and then using social technology to compare data. Good piece describing the trend. I...
From Wild WebMink
? Hollow Point
Each time I am told I should unreservedly respect decisions made by authorities in secret, I remember this song by Chris Wood. I always cry. Folk music is still...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE, MPS Seeking to Advance Quantum Information Science
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From Computational Complexity
Turing's Titanic Machine!
In the March CACM, Barry Cooper writes We quote Peter J. Denning introducing the ACM Ubiquity Symposium on "What is Computation?" as saying: "Researchers in biology...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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Interesting new student competition from Time Warner Cable (TWC). As part of Connect a Million Minds (CAMM), the company’s five-year, $100 million commitment to...
From Schneier on Security
GPS Spoofers
Great movie-plot threat: Financial institutions depend on timing that is accurate to the microsecond on a global scale so that stock exchanges in, say, London...
From Wild WebMink