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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
Would You Like to Pilot a New Game Development Course?
Would you like to pilot a new game development course (or two) in your school? With free curriculum and software? Microsoft is starting a new XNA online community...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brilliance by Fulcruum
Seen at the recent Continuous Web meetings: A new online magazine by Fulcruum Publishing called Brilliance. The Premiere issue of June 1 is called: Escaping the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visirule: Logic Programming
In the heady AI/Knowledge Systems days of the 90s we wrote dozens of rule based systems that contained thousands of rules. These were designed to capture and reproduce...
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 March issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From Schneier on Security
My Next Book: Title and Cover
As my regular readers already know, I'm in the process of writing my next book. It's a book about why security exists: specifically, how a group of people protects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clorox Shares Green Data with an App
The increased focus of Apps is revealing. Note also the integration of UPC code scanning. Here Clorox shares their green data on a smartphone App. " .... Clorox...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What Were They Thinking? The Important of Feedback
Asking for honest, anonymous feedback can be scary. Really scary. But over the years, I've learned that the benefits of getting real feedback far outweigh the possibility...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Soliciting Innovative Research Proposals
Late last month, DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) issued a solicitation calling for research proposals that “investigate innovative approaches that enable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Wal-Mart Case
A reasoned and understandable explanation of the Wal-Mart discrimination case supreme court ruling. Lots of corporate implications.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Test Drive Your Competitors
A good article in the Harvard Blogs on really knowing you competitors by using, not just casually experiencing their products. Doing that does not imply disloyalty...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-21
Disastrous Implications of New Apple Patent for Blocking Cellphone Video – storify.com What an amazingly dangerous world Apple are exploring here. The scope for...
From Schneier on Security
The Problem with Cyber-crime Surveys
Good paper: "Sex, Lies and Cyber-crime Surveys," Dinei Florêncio and Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research. Abstract: Much of the information we have on cyber-crime...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft at ISTE 2011
As I promised yesterday, here is more information about Microsoft at ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia. First off the good stuff. OK well the stuff that means the most...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Award Winning Keynoters at CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference 2011
This year, CSTA
From Wild WebMink
? Bitly and Spam Links
I was interested last week to discover that, unknown to me, the link shortening service bit.ly was displaying a warning message when anyone clicked on one link...
From Computational Complexity
I am conducing a NEW POLL on P vs NP
In 2002 I did a poll that appeared as SIGACT News Complexity Theory Column 36 on what people thought of P vs NP. See here. That article is now linked to on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond the Bounce Rate
A post in the blog at Catalyst Online. Brought to my attention this week. Honestly I have not heard the measure of the 'bounce rate' used very often in the enterprise...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog