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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
NSF/CISE to Hold Sustainability Webinars
As we’ve previously reported in this space, the National Science Foundation (NSF)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Standing-Room Only at a VLDB Challenges & Visions Session
Attendees of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2011)
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is an app?
In the Mobile Game Design and Mobile App Design categories of the NFTE World Series of Innovation students are asked to design an app or a game for a mobile device...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is an app?
In the Mobile Game Design and Mobile App Design categories of the NFTE World Series of Innovation students are asked to design an app or a game for a mobile device...
From Schneier on Security
Risk Perception and Terrorism
I've been posting about a lot of academic articles of late, because that's what I'm reading. Here's another. Clinton M. Jenkin (2006), Risk Perception and Terrorism...
From Wild WebMink
? Whitacre Concert
If you were blissed-out by the amazingly beautiful choral music I linked to on Bank Holiday Monday, and if you happen to live within reach of London, you will definitely...
From Putting People First
Dan Lockton on how architecture and urbanism can be used to influence behaviour
Dan Lockton is continuing publishing extracts from his Brunel University Ph.D thesis
From Putting People First
What
When we talk about customer or user experience in the financial services arena, what do we actually mean? The understanding of banks and banking is not a straightforward...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Many Pages on the Internet
I like numbers. Have heard many estimates over the years. Billions at first. Trillions some say. Now a new effort is underway to estimate the size of the net...
From My Biased Coin
Rabin's Birthday Celebration
While I was not blogging, we spent the few days before the semester started with an 80th birthday workshop for Michael Rabin. Impressively, we were able to pull...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Watson Does Diagnoses
Another piece about uses for the IBM Watson Computer. Once again, patient diagnosis was an early application for artificial intelligence. In particular pulmonary...
From Apophenia
Guilt Through Algorithmic Association
You’re a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you’re a terrorist. They keep typing in Google...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Makes a Workshop Work?
This past summer marked the addition of a full day of workshops to the CS&IT Symposium. More than 120 individuals attended morning and afternoon sessions on a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
9/11 Myths
A few years ago I had the displeasure of talking to a person who was absolutely convinced of and promoting several of the prominent 9/11 myths. Damaging and disturbing...
From Schneier on Security
More 9/11 Retrospectives
Joseph Stiglitz on the price of 9/11. How 9/11 changed surveillance. New scientific research as a result of 9/11. A good controversial piece. The day we lost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Labs Addresses the ZMOT
Good piece in AdAge on the reason for Walmart Labs: Suggesting that Wal-Mart is in an increasing bind due to the online world. " ... Developments in Search and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and Sybase Unwired
After talking with SAP on a panel last week and asking about their mobile business intelligence solutions, they have sent me a link about their SyBase Unwired mobility...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posterous Becomes Social
I have recommended Posterous for a beginner's blogging engine for beginners. In particular for its ability to work with mobile. I created a few templates for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Our Nature
I am a big fan of Steven Pinker, read a number of his books. On his forthcoming book. The Better Angels of our Nature:Why Violence has Declined.The author of The...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM