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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Director:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director Regina Dugan recently sat on an panel sponsored by
From The Eponymous Pickle
Formalizing the Water Cooler
Good thoughts about why and how to gather corporate knowledge from obvious, but rarely captured sources, like informal conversations. Points to less formal places...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Young Can/Should You Start Teaching Programming?
Or perhaps how young should you try? And to top if off, why do you want to start them so young in the first place? I received the following from a teacher friend...
From Schneier on Security
"Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake"
Good essay on the dangers of cyberwar rhetoric -- and the cyberwar arms race.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Analysis App
Boris Agranovich of the Global Risk Community has posted an early look at a new free App that: " ... will offer simple way for decision-makers to identify the potential...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Guest Post on Cybersecurity Legislation from Chris Bronk
What follows is a guest post from Chris Bronk, Information Technology Policy Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He’s a new member of...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Mobile Devices in the Classroom
This fall I took an online class to learn about ways to use cellphones in the classroom. There has been much in the media recently about ways to utilize this ubiquitous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing Page
A reconnect with some IBM researchers led me to revisit their cognitive computing presence:" ... Researchers at IBM have been working on a cognitive computing...
From Wild WebMink
? Is Windows to blame for viruses?
A historical post, for a change. A comment on a mailing list tonight – that something was “rather like blaming Windows for getting viruses” –
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Future
BBC Future a nicely designed site that features future tech. See also their Neuroscience topic sub section.
From Computational Complexity
Nash and the NSA
By now most of you have heard about Nash's recently released letters to the NSA (press release, letters). Not only did John Nash think about computation and cryptography...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification for the Small and Medium Size Business
Some simple thoughts about why to use gamification for the small and medium sized business. More of a why than an exactly how, but a quick and useful read.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One week left to enter the Kinect Fun Labs Challenge!
I know that here and there you might have some really great Kinect game or app ideas at your schools. If they haven
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers: Interview on The Browser
I was asked to talk about five books related to privacy. You're best known as a security expert but our theme today is "trust". How would you describe the connection...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Celebrate HER
Serena and I were nominated for Celebrate HER.Celebrate HER is an Ottawa-based gender inclusive non-profit organization. Our vision is to facilitate greater social...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 27
February 29 Hearing: The Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Will Use More Analytics
Did you know that CPG giant Procter & Gamble is planning to quadruple their business analytics resources, despite decreasing their spending in many other areas?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Right Data
I am a proponent of getting a handle on big data via transformation, be it data management, analytical models or visualization means. But more important is getting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart Systems, Medicine the Focus of Recent Challenges
In recent weeks, open innovation company InnoCentive has launched a pair of competitions with significant R&D questions requiring advances in computing. One is...
From Putting People First