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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
Calling for Proposals: Envisioning Frontiers of Computing Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) — a standing committee of CRA that seeks to catalyze and empower the computing research community to pursue audacious,...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post on NYCE (Giorgos Zervas)
GUEST POST by GIORGOS ZERVAS I was at NYCE 2011 this past Friday. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and productive experience. I feel like I got a conference's worth...
From Wild WebMink
? Tricks
The special trick that helps identify dodgy stats I’d heard of Benford’s Law before, but it was a timely reminder. There are quite a few banks of data that it would...
From Schneier on Security
Complex Electronic Banking Fraud in Malaysia
The interesting thing about this attack is how it abuses a variety of different security systems. Investigations revealed that the syndicate members had managed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 September 2011
I really had to post the information about the new Game development course yesterday (Game Development with XNA Curriculum
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 September 2011
I really had to post the information about the new Game development course yesterday (Game Development with XNA Curriculum–Semester Course). I’m pretty excitedImagine...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity-Based Teaching Practices
As we embark on the school year, creating an equitable classroom environment is important for supporting girls and other underrepresented groups in a positive learning...
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of what has caught my attention recently:"60 percent of Netflix views are a result of Netflix's personalized recommendations" and "35 percent of [Amazon] product...
From Schneier on Security
Pretty Creepy Type of Cyberstalking
Luis "Guicho" Mijangos, "sextortionist."
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Knowledge Yield in the Workplace
Mark Montgomery of KYield, writes about Optimizing Knowledge Yield in the Digital Workplace . Some very important topics. I am currently in the process of trying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Right BI Tool
Thoughtful piece about choices of BI tools. From MICHAEL TARALLO Pentaho Director of Enterprise Solutions. I have looked at Pentaho several times. It looked...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 19
September 21 Hearing: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on Cloud Computing. 10...
From Computational Complexity
Conferences Again
Lots of conference news and views going around. Let's sort it out. FOCS early registration deadline is September 29th, fast approaching. Deadline for applyingstudent...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft East Region Bloggers
These days I am part of a larger team than I used to. There are some 22 of use including our manager. Everyone has a blog. This is the complete list. NameBlog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Gamification a fad?
A post about the claim. I think not. We used the idea of 'game dynamics' to encourage engagement in and outside the company. The term itself may be overstating...
From Schneier on Security
The Effectiveness of Plagiarism Detection Software
As you'd expect, it's not very good: But this measure [Turnitin] captures only the most flagrant form of plagiarism, where passages are copied from one document...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson