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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
Ask the US President to veto SOPA and PIPA
I know from the statistics that many of the people who read this are in the USA. Apologies to everyone else, but I’d like to ask all my US readers to take a look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AlixPartners
I was recently introduced to AlixPartners, a group that uses analytical and executive expertise to solves business problems. " ... Our service expertise reaches...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers News
The Liars and Outliers webpage is live. On it you can find links to order both paper and e-book copies from a variety of online retailers, and signed copies directly...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Scientist Appears on America's Got Talent
Inaccurate stereotypes about what computer scientists look and act like abound. Our students see them in popular media and hear about them from friends and family...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Trade Planning in the Cloud
Press Release:Unilever Selects DemandTec for Predictive Trade Planning in the Cloud Global consumer goods leader drives more effective retail trade plans with...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS & IT 2012
Back in the end of November I posted the call for proposals for the 12th Annual Computer Science & Information Technology Conference. Did you see it? Have you been...
From Schneier on Security
Newly Released Papers from NSA Journals
The papers are old, but they have just been released under FOIA.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytic Metrics
A simple view of Google Analytics metrics. Useful guide, especially for beginners in Web analytic methods.
From The Eponymous Pickle
People Centric Sensing
The rise of people-centric sensing. Another example of how data gathering is increasing. " ... Technological advances in sensing, computation, storage, and communications...
From Wild WebMink
? Foxes Have Holes
The UK’s Minister of Agriculture thinks that the law against hunting foxes is impossible to enforce and should therefore be repealed. I wonder how he and his government...
From Schneier on Security
Sending Coded Messages with Postage Stamps
The history of coded messages in postage-stamp placement. I wonder how prevalent this actually was. My guess is that it was more a clever idea than an actual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Control Algorithm
An Algorithm that estimates who is in control based on speech patterns. Sounds obvious, but there are likely subtle semantic details involved.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Bliink 2012 Illinois Web Design Competition
Registration for the Microsoft Bliink 2012 Illinois Web Design Competition is now open. Bliink (http://bit.ly/Bliink) is open to Illinois students ages 13-19 participating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Poor State of US Public Domain Laws
Techdirt Post on how public domain laws are preventing access to works that should surely be available to all by now. A situation that needs to be corrected soon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US to Become Paperless?
Polls say no. we examined this for years. Paper will always be here, but in reduced amounts. I think tablets will push the gap closer than it had been.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are you a gold prospector, or a construction worker?
Most work is akin to construction jobs: you work until the house is built. You just have to keep the servers running day after day. You keep writing code day after...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Is It Smart to Use Smart Phones
While not the latest trend, I find that more of the teachers in one district I serve are using 'smart' phones among their educational tools for learning. One teacher...
From Computational Complexity