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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
Illustrating the Role of Fundamental Computing Research
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Deputy Director Tom Kalil and Senior Advisor Kumar Garg have highlighted the role of fundamental computing...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Motivating Students and Teachers While Raising the Bar
During the past year, a good deal of my work time has revolved around revising our state Business, Finance, and IT Essential Standards. We have organized our standards...
From Schneier on Security
New Malware: Duqu
A newly discovered piece of malware, Duqu, seems to be a precursor to the next Stuxnet-like worm and uses some of the same techniques as the original.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What if you want a PhD but don't plan to do research after?
I was thinking the other day about the different reasons a person might want to get a PhD, and I wondered if those who weren't necessarily intending to be researchers...
From Computational Complexity
Theorems that are impressive at first but then....
Mission Impossible was my favorite show as a kid. As an adult it would not make my top 20, and I wonder why I liked it so much as a kid. (Actually I do know- at...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Interbot
Interbots’ consumer robot for autism therapy took the top prize last Thursday at the nation’s first-ever next-generation robotics venture competition. The event...
From Wild WebMink
On Ecclesiastes and Pornography
Filtering “pornography” without any way to define what it is can only harm our society, and seeing it proposed is yet another reminder that the “Ecclesiastes Principle”...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup as Group Projects
One of the things that often makes Imagine Cup entries a good educational experience is that they require planning and team work. A good Imagine Cup entry is seldom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Isolating the Impactof Learning
In Chief Learning Officer (CLO): Can you isolate such a change based on any single variable?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Your Code with Myers-Briggs
In ReadwriteWeb: You can test your code's Myers-Briggs score. Does this have any real meaning?
From The Eponymous Pickle
At Atlanta Southface
I presented and interacted at Atlanta Southface today about the gathering ad democratizing enviuronemental sensor data. " ... For more than 30 years, Southface...
From My Biased Coin
John Byers on WBUR
Listening to my co-author, John Byers, streamed live on WBUR, discussing our work on Groupon. Ben Edelman is another participant in the show.Here's the link. ...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Jobs Are There For Poets
I was listening to an Internet stream of Gary Stager presenting a keynote at an education conference in Iowa the other day. The technology for this amazes me but...
From Putting People First
The rise of cross-channel UX design
“Seamless, cross-channel experiences are the way of the future, as technology fades into the background and the personal, physical, and social context determine...
From Schneier on Security
Discovering What Facebook Knows About You
Things are getting interesting in Europe: Max is a 24 year old law student from Vienna with a flair for the interview and plenty of smarts about both technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adding Interactivity to Real Objects
Augmenting reality by adding interactivity to real objects. From Engadget:" ...We'd seen Intel Lab's Oasis (Object-Aware Situated Interactive System) project a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson