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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 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
Using Technology to Reinvent Math Education
What subject do high school students dislike the most? My bet is math — it’s confusing, abstract, and requires meticulous attention to detail. But at it’s heart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meaningful Play
A good Google talk on meaningful play. Sebstian Deterding - Serious Play: Getting Gamification Right. And Prof. Jesse Schell's talk at DICEon the future of...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 20
Cybersecurity appears to be the word for committees this week. June 21 Hearing: The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytical Medical tests
Algorithms for real time data analysis for predictive diagnosis. Again this was an early application of artificial intelligence. As suggested this requires that...
From Putting People First
Individual and networked privacy
Danah Boyd, researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, posted the crib of her recent Personal...
From Putting People First
Book: ethnography and the corporate encounter
Ethnography and The Corporate Encounter Reflections on Research in and of Corporations Edited by Melissa Cefkin Berghahn Books 2010, 262 pages Businesses and other...
From Schneier on Security
RAND Corporation on Trusted Traveler
New paper: "Assessing the Security Benefits of a Trusted Traveler Program in the Presence of Attempted Attacker Exploitation and Compromise": Current aviation...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 June 2011
This time next week I will be in Philadelphia for ISTE. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surviving Technological Sea Changes
MJ Perry on the survival of IBM during a hundred years of technological changes.
From My Biased Coin
New Books Worth Looking At
New books are coming out all the time, but here are two big ones that stick out in my mind (perhaps because I've seen the authors recently). [Feel free to mention...
From Computer Science Teachers Association