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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 Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone Development Training Online
SO you probably know that a new version of the Windows Phone software is coming very soon. If you are planning on teaching phone development you may also be thinking...
From Wild WebMink
? Artist Sampler Is A Masterpiece
If you enjoy listening to good singer-songwriter music, chances are that you’ll love the sampler that Amazon.Com is giving away free this week (sadly the same sampler...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overview of Business Intelligence
A good semi technical overview of BI in CACM: " ... Business intelligence (BI) software is a collection of decision support technologies for the enterprise...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Free Course Gives Rise to Interesting Questions
A colleague of mine, Sebastian Thrun, has decided that education should be free and open to all. Just over a week ago, he created a website: http://www.ai-class...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Wiki
This looks to be a useful resource. About game mechanics and other resources.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Sensing
The Foresight Institute on Open Source Sensing. " ... Establishing standards now for current and near future widespread sensing based upon smart phones owned by...
From Schneier on Security
Interview with Me
Here's an interview with me from the Homeland Security News Wire.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the June issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How an Innovation Effort can get it Right, Mostly
A very good post and video about how newspapers saw their future in the early 1990s. Which describes how a Knight Ridder innovation group saw the future of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Total Cost of Ownership
Mark Montgomery points me to a post on Boris Evelson's blog on Forrester's site regarding the total cost of BI ownership. Some very good comment interaction including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Replacing Wi-Fi
LED lights can be flickered very quickly to transmit data. It could replace Wi-Fi under some conditions, though it does require line of sight or easily reflected situations...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Engaging in Public Service
The three men in the image on the right have something in common: Rush Holt, who
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Painted on Canal Narrowboat
Pretty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Summer Recap: Comments on NSTIC Governance
Often things slow down in the summer, but that’s not been the case for USACM this year. We’ve been busy commenting on various government proposals related to computing...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers Cover
My new book, Liars and Outliers, has a cover. Publication is still scheduled for the end of February -- in time for the RSA Conference -- assuming I finish the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sands Research on Neuromarketing
Sand's most recent newsletter on neuroscience methods covers a number of interesting papers and articles on the topic. If you have not read about neuromarketing...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Summer Professional Development
This summer I was able to attend three Computer Science conferences this summer which were CS4HS: http://www.cs4hs.com/participating-schools-2011.html at two...
From Schneier on Security
Rat that Applies Poison to its Fur
The African crested rat applies tree poison to its fur to make itself more deadly. The researchers made their discovery after presenting a wild-caught crestedAcokanthera...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog