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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
Computer Crackers are Evil
Recently a friend of mine, Vicki Davis, received a pre-publication copy of the new book by Kevin Mitnick the famous cracker. Vicki wrote here review of the book...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Back to School Tablet Sales
Forbes suggests that tablet sales will boom with the new school year. Not unexpected, but I still think that laptops are today still more versatile, and tablets...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Analytics Tool
A new Facebook Analytic tool of interest. ...PageLever shows impressions (any time a story loads in a browser whether on your page or not) for any date range,...
From Schneier on Security
New Information on the Inventor of the One-Time Pad
Seems that the one-time pad was not first invented by Vernam: He could plainly see that the document described a technique called the one-time pad fully 35 years...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoD Enters National Robotics Initiative
Back in mid-June, we noted the President’s announcement of a $70 million National Robotics Initiative (NRI) — a multi-agency investment spanning the NSF, NIH, NASA...
From Computational Complexity
If I was a tweeter (is that a word?)
Since Lance is not tweeting this week, I will take up the slack. So, here is my once-in-a-while post If I tweeted AND if tweets didn't have to be so short, here...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
mHealth Winter Institute Announced
The NIH has just announced a Mobile Health Winter Institute — to be held in conjunction with the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington, DC, in early December. Applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Code Mistakes
Good Mashable piece on the use of QR codes. A useful quick read for anyone considering a QR code based promotion idea.
From Schneier on Security
Identifying People by their Writing Style
The article is in the context of the big Facebook lawsuit, but the part about identifying people by their writing style is interesting: Recently, a team of computer...
From Putting People First
Ezio Manzini on the economics of design for social innovation
Sarah Brooks of Shareable has just published the second part of her interview with the Italian design strategist Ezio Manzini, who is one of the world
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup Projects
Many of the best projects that are entered in the Imagine Cup are inspired by real people solving problems that have deep meaning for the project team. For some...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Do I Want to Be an Entrepreneur?
Even though it's early, I have been starting to think about what I want to do when I graduate. Teaching is high up there is I can find a good local job doing it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skype on the iPad
Skype now has an available native App on the iPad. Tested it and it works quite well on wifi.Could use better contact management and additional client options....
From Schneier on Security
Developments in Facial Recognition
Eventually, it will work. You'll be able to wear a camera that will automatically recognize someone walking towards you, and a microphone that will automatically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Science Fiction Behind Search
In the Google Quarterly. A looking at what works very well, not quite so well and not at all in search by Google, and how we may start to think about the future...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eight Pillars of Innovation
In the Google Quarterly. "... The greatest innovations are the ones we take for granted, like light bulbs, refrigeration and penicillin. But in a world where the...
From Putting People First
Book: Design for Services
Design for Services Series: Design for Social Responsibility Authors: Anna Meroni and Daniela Sangiorgi Gower Publishing, August 2011, 298 pages In Design for Services...
From Putting People First
Design research: what is it and why do it?
In a long post on reBoot, Panthea Lee has laid out some basic principles, approaches, and tools of design research so public institutions can better understand...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Could the Next Big Thing
It’s not everyday the national news media envisions computing research. But it happened on Sunday, when
From The Eponymous Pickle