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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
My Goal: Inspiring Students
Unlike the solar calendar which marks January as the beginning of the new year, my new year, like that of all teachers, begins in September. A new school year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindjet for IPhone and IPad are now Free
I used Mindjet extensively in the enterprise. Promoted it and taught it. It inspired us to think about the process of 'knowledge mapping' more generally. Admittedly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More About the Second Screen
More in Mashable about a Nielsen study about how people use smartphones and tablets when watching TV. The phenomenon of the second screen. You wonder what it does...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Mathematica Conference Available Free
I see that all the presentations and keynotes from the recent Wolfram Mathemetica virtual conference are available online. I have just started to examine some...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Preparation to Teach High School Computer Science
“What qualifies you to teach computer science?” The question took me off guard. The tone as much as the words seem to be more of a challenge than anything else....
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Shoppers Want in an App
From the FMI Daily Lead, makes sense.What consumers want from their supermarket's app : Consumers' top three interests for grocery mobile applications are receiving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ParAccel and MicroStrategy
We had some conversations with ParAccel a while back. I note that they have announced an effort with Microstrategy on social media analytics. Worth examiningParaAccel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT/Stanford Venture Lab on Augmented Reality
An upcoming meeting on the venture future of augmented reality. AR has a good future in retail as a means to effectively combine online and physical spaces. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Learning with Smartphones
A case study of using Smartphones to engage with the learning process. " ... The users are given a smartphone that has access to more than 15 virtual course modules...
From Computational Complexity
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
We lost another computing pioneer of a very different kind. Dennis Ritchie, who developed C and co-developed Unix, passed away last weekend. Ritchie and Ken Thompson...
From Schneier on Security
Official Malware from the German Police
The Chaos Computer Club has disassembled and analyzed the Trojan used by the German police for legal intercept. In its default mode, it takes regular screenshots...
From Wild WebMink
? Eric Whitacre Concert
Eric Whitacre Concert, originally uploaded by webmink. Busy day Tuesday, which included the great pleasure of going to hear Eric Whitacre conduct his superb choir...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Research Plan: The Role of Story in Educational Games
I've (finally!) been working on a concrete thesis research plan and wanted to share a general idea of what I'm intending to do. The short version is that I want...
From Computational Complexity
If Bill Tweeted what would he tweet (Steve Jobs Edition)
A more nuanced view of Steve Jobs: here. A less nuanced view of Steve Jobs: here. The next Steve Jobs: here A very nice NON-Steve Jobs post here. Is thisAndrew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Card Deck Invention Games
Mind Hacks discusses the use of card decks for innovation. A game prompting invention. Several card deck examples I had not heard of. We used this technique...
From Putting People First
The many meanings of ethnography
Ethnography, Ethnography or Ethnography? What Happens When the Same Word Means Different Things to Different People? is the title of a new paper on ethnography...
From The Eponymous Pickle