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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 Eponymous Pickle
Using Badges in Games
Properly Using Badges To Engage Customers. Some good thoughts on how to use the concept of 'badges' when doing gamification. I still have my doubts about using...
From Wild WebMink
? The Long Road To Software Freedom
At the Community Leadership Summit in Portland back in July, I moderated a session called “The Death Star User Group”, aimed at community managers working for large...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
AppInventor Goes to New Home
My heart sank a few weeks ago when Google announced that they would be dropping AppInventor as part of their decision to get rid of Google Labs. Like many of you...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellow Miriah Meyer Named to TR35
Congratulations to Miriah Meyer, one of our 2009 Computing Innovation Fellows — and now faculty at the University of Utah’s School of Computing – who was just named...
From Computational Complexity
What inspired you to work on... whatever you work on?
Grad students often wonder how people get ideas of things to work on. The usual advice I give is (1) go to talks, (2) read papers, (3) talk to people, (4) follow...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DEV 2012 Calling for Papers
The organizers of the second annual symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2012) — to be colocated with the
From Putting People First
Book: Applying Anthropology in the Global Village
Applying Anthropology in the Global Village Christina Wasson (Editor); Mary Odell Butler (Editor); Jacqueline Copeland-Carson (Editor) 288 pp. – Nov, 2011 Left...
From Schneier on Security
Security for Implanted Medical Devices
Worried about someone hacking your implanted medical devices? Here's a signal-jamming device you can wear.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
There Is Research On That
Computers are good at games. Well sort of. Computers are good at following rules and making decisions based on rules that are programmed into them. These rulesresearch...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating at Casinos with Hidden Cameras
Sleeve cameras aren't new, but they're now smaller than ever and the cheaters are getting more sophisticated: In January, at the newly opened $4-billion Cosmopolitan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harvard Innovation Lab
Harvard starts a technology lab. There was an IBM ad some time ago which made fun of having to set aside a place to do innovation. Certainly it can be done...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cyber Security Data for Experimentation
The NSF’s CISE Directorate has issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), calling to attention the outputs
From Schneier on Security
Movie-Plot Threat: Open Airplane Cockpit Doors During Bathroom Breaks
James Fallows has a nice debunking of a movie-plot threat.
From The Eponymous Pickle
We Are the Web
Are we the web? In GigaOm. " ... Not too long ago, Om Malik blogged
From Schneier on Security
How Microsoft Develops Security Patches
I thought this was an interesting read.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chiquita Rio Gamification Case Study
Met recently with Nancy Koors at Empower and she pointed me to this video case study of the Chiquita Rio gamification example that they created. Note the movie...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Linux and the financial crisis
On December 2007, the New York Stock Exchange adopted Linux. In late August 2008, we saw one of the worse worldwide stock market crash of the last hundred years...
From Wild WebMink