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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 The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Why Computer Science is Relevant No Matter What You're Teaching
I had only half an hour to put forward my case. I wanted to convince the educators who attended a special CU-WISE event last week, Discover WISE, that no matter...
From My Biased Coin
Deletion Channel Pointer : Kanoria and Montanari
For those half a dozen of us in the world who care about the deletion channel (and perhaps I'm overcounting), I'm a bit late in pointing to the now available extended...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gigabit Network Case Study
Case study of a Chattanooga network. Impressive work in a two part article.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE, With India, Calling for Building Energy Efficiency Research
The U.S. Department of Energy — together with the Government of India — recently established a Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC) “designed...
From Schneier on Security
Lockheed Martin Hack Linked to RSA's SecurID Breach
All I know is what I read in the news.
From Schneier on Security
Aggressive Social Engineering Against Consumers
Cyber criminals are getting aggressive with their social engineering tactics. Val Christopherson said she received a telephone call last Tuesday from a man stating...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
XNA and Visual Basic
I have been playing with Visual Basic and XNA for a few days now. Support has been out for VB and XNA for a little while now but the release of the Windows Phone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recommendation Engines for Art
Recommendation has exist for music and books for some time. Now it is starting to be seen for visual art as well. In ReadWriteWeb. " ... there's been no comparable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First to Market Products that Failed
An instructive list, over many years and technology contexts, of ideas that were clearly groundbreaking, but failed in their first commercial use. I knew about many...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sock Monkey Meets Karen Peterson
Last week Sock Monkey attended the spring meeting for the National Center for Women in Information Technology and had a chance to meet with Karen Peterson of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Commercial Quantum Computer
The first commercial quantum computer, from D-Wave, has been sold in a multi year contract to Lockheed Martin. More in Engadget. Impressive step towards commercial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pads in Schools:Games as Learning
Should devices like the iPad replace books and other learning materials in schools? A recent experiment in the UK asks the question. I am still a proponent of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Endeca Business Intelligence
Newly discovered: Endeca. " ... For organizations seeking to improve daily decisions or purchase decisions for customers, Endeca is a search and business intelligence...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-29
Can We Kill Off This Myth That The Internet Is A Wild West That Needs To Be Tamed? | Techdirt Excellent article. — "The internet does not exist as untouchable....
From CERIAS Blog
U.S. Memorial Day Thoughts on Cyber War
We've been hearing about "cyber war" for some time now. It has been held out as an existential threat by some people, been the topic of scores of books, and led...
From Computational Complexity
75 Years of Computer Science
As Lipton and Felten note, today is the 75th anniversary of Turing's On Computable Numbers, With an Application to The Entscheidungsproblem, the seminal paper of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Academics Move Closer to Wikipedia
I have been surprised that a large portion of academia was not sympathetic to the Wikipedia, perhaps seeing too much competition there. But once many people start...
From The Eponymous Pickle