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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 Eponymous Pickle
Shopping Carts Tracking Every Move
A piece by Martin Lindstrom on the dynamic activation of shopping carts to track the movement of shoppers. The idea is not new, we utilized the basic idea as...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Kudos to the New RCMP Commissioner
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, our federal police force, recently had its 23rd commissioner formally installed. There have been problems with the previousRCMP...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Subliminal Sound Ads on Your Phone
In Engadget: Ads to be triggered on you phone based on subliminal sound at a given location. This is a little like augmented reality, which can be triggered by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Technology Driven World
In Forbes: How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimistic Time: A Techonomy Manifesto .. The conference mentioned is now over, but the thoughts are interesting: ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tricks of Holiday Marketing
Martin Lindstrom is interviewed in Bloomberg on the complexity of holiday retail marketing. " ... In an interview with Bloomberg.com
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Names Its 2011 Fellows
ACM is out with its 2011 Fellows, 46 of its members
From Computational Complexity
A Great Time to be a Computer Scientist
Ask your friends if they'll be driving an electric car in ten years. The answer: No, cars will be driving us. Today is the 105th anniversary of the birth of computing...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Can Coding Really Change the World?
Is there any question that technology-based innovations like PCs, the world-wide web, social media and smart phones have fundamentally changed the way we work,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Acquire DemandTec: Delivers Analytics via the Cloud
I see in a press release that IBM has agreed to acquire DemandTec. Our enterprise retail innovation center was an early evaluator of DemandTec, which brought...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Defense of Gamification
In Gigaom: " ... Gamifications can have a bad rap, admits Gabe Zichermann, CEO of Gamification.Co. He said people think it means turning everything into Angry...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IARPA Seeking Machine Learning Breakthroughs
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is out with a request for information (RFI) this month, seeking input on “a possible future IARPA investment...
From Apophenia
Opportunities not to miss
Over the last six weeks, I’ve posted various opportunities for students, academics, and other scholars that I’m co-directing/hosting, many of which have deadlines...
From Schneier on Security
Lockable USB Hard Drive
Just in time for Christmas, a USB drive housed in a physical combination lock.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why I’m Still Excited about Computer Science
It’s computer science education week and that has me thinking about what I’d like to tell students about computer science. So I decided to record something on the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
It Is All About the Celebration
CSEdWeek is all about the celebration. We celebrate the teachers who share the challenge and the excitement of the discipline with their students, we celebrateDecember...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NY Times Keeps Talking Computing
In addition to Tuesday’s special Science Times describing the future of computing, The New York Times
From Schneier on Security
DARPA Unshredding Contest
DARPA held an unshredding contest, and there's a winner: "Lots of experts were skeptical that a solution could be produced at all let alone within the short time...
From Putting People First
Why service design is the next big thing in cultural innovation
Rohan Gunatillake, the lead producer of festivalslab (the Edinburgh Festival Innovations Lab) gives four reasons why new thinking and tools can produce better experiences...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson