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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 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
Brain and Brain Vibrations
Martin Lindstrom in his latest article writes about phantom cellphone vibrations That have us reaching for our pockets even without any conscious cues. He relates...
From Schneier on Security
Attacking PLCs Controlling Prison Doors
Embedded system vulnerabilities in prisons: Some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Congratulations Louis Zulli Jr. and Doug Bergman
There were nine winners in the Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum, four second place winners and five first place winners (one of these was...
From My Biased Coin
Fun Links, via Google+
One fun aspect of being on Google+ is occasionally a link comes along worth further notice.The first, from David Karger, is a link to a report (by Democrats, says...
From Wild WebMink
? Kiva Free Trial
Kiva is a project that allows you to make tiny loans, together with many other people, that accumulate to make a larger loan that will prove huge for an otherwise...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Is Computer Science Antithetical to the Liberal Arts?
Many of us who teach college level computer science have been happy with the latest news about computing and IT related jobs. With the promise of fast growth in...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The
The NSF’s Science Nation has a great feature today on the “Science of Shopping,” describing how computer scientists Rajeev Sharma and Satish Mummareddy have developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scavenging Power
Fascinating Fastcompany article about scavenging power from waste paper and data. Must be some sort of energy conservation involved, though we will always have...
From Schneier on Security
Breaking the Xilinx Virtex-II FPGA Bitstream Encryption
It's a power-analysis attack, which makes it much harder to defend against. And since the attack model is an engineer trying to reverse-engineer the chip, it's...
From The Eponymous Pickle