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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 Schneier on Security
Comparing al Qaeda and the IRA
A really interesting article: Al Qaeda played all out, spent all its assets in a few years. In my dumb-ass 2005 article, I called the Al Qaeda method "real war"...
From Putting People First
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Jane Wakefield, BBC technology reporter, explores how the social experience of real shopping can help improve web retail, and how the online social shopping experience...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Programming at South Dakota Gear Up
South Dakota Gear UP is an outstanding program run at the South Dakota Schools of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. This year a programming mini course was added...
From Putting People First
Report: Behaviour Change and Energy Use
The Behavioural Insight Team of David Cameron’s Cabinet Office – widely known as the ‘nudge unit‘, has published the repor, Behaviour Change and Energy Use, setting...
From Putting People First
Web 3.0 is all about social personalisation
Forget Web 2.0. During a panel on social media at the recent Wharton Global Alumni Forum, industry experts argued that we are now in a “third wave” of disruption...
From Apophenia
How to Take an Email Sabbatical
It’s summer time and many folks are heading off to vacation and fretting about coming back to overloaded inboxes. Folks keep asking me about my email sabbaticals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printer Produces Chocolate
Long time interest in remote manufacturing and the remote transmission of foods. Here is a simple example. What other foods might be assembled remotely via digital...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alan Haberman of Barcode Fame Dies
Alan Haberman, Who usered in the Bar Code, Dies at 81On a summer morning in 1974, a man in Ohio bought a package of chewing gum and the whole world changed....
From My Biased Coin
Various Goings On
I've not been a Facebook user, but I was invited to join Google+, so I set up a picture and am waiting to see what it's all about. I'm afraid that for the most...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 4
July 7 Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity threats and threat assessment.
From Wild WebMink
? Brazil Signs Up To Develop Office Suites
At FISL in Brazil last week, I had the opportunity to speak as the co-presenter in a session about the evolution of OpenOffice.org – I think there will eventually...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Proof You Don't Need to Stick to Just MS Office for Arts and Social Science Students
My arts and social science students expected a relatively easy class that mostly taught them the ins and outs of Microsoft Office software. They were probablypushed...
From Putting People First
Niti Bhan on emerging markets tech event in East Africa
Niti Bhan, the emerging markets strategy specialist, went to Kenya to participate in the Pivot 25 conference and wrote this guest contribution on her experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence for Small Companies
Agree that today there are many options for using BI tools and applying them to the needs of enterprises large and small.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Releases Core Program Solicitations
Just a heads up that NSF’s CISE Directorate has issued solicitations for its core programs: Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) — Algorithmic Foundations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Azore Garage
About helping the inside Entrepreneur. I thought of myself as this kind of operator for years and here is a startup devoted to them. " ... The azore garage was...
From Schneier on Security
Man Flies with Someone Else's Ticket and No Legal ID
Last week, I got a bunch of press calls about Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, who flew from New York to Los Angeles using an expired ticket in someone else's name andmakes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Post BASIC World?
What does is mean to be in a post BASIC world? This is the question that comes to mine when I read about an article titled How are students learning programming...
From Putting People First