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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Time-saving versus work-inducing software
At a glance, office software like Word, PowerPoint or Excel, are great time savers. Nobody would want to go back to the era before Word Processors? Unfortunately...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS&IT and Summertime PD
The flowers are blooming (finally) here in Massachusetts so spring has indeed arrived, which means, summer is not too far away. Some of us think, can it get here...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 16
May 19 Meeting: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology will meet. The meeting will be webcast. 9 a.m., Marriott Metro Center, 775 12th Street...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading: Reality is Broken
I am doing some research in the area of 'gamification' and the use of games to solve serious work processes. That and some emerging project work has led me toReality...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Jeff Naughton
Jeff Naughton, a top database researcher from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, has made available a superb keynote that he gave at the 26th IEEE International...
From Computational Complexity
On demand Publishing (guest post)
Cambridge Press (and others) offers PRINT-ON-DEMAND for some books. This is a guest post by Lauren Cowles from Cambridge Books about this, and then my commentsWhats...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marginalia in the Digital World
It is not as easy as it once once. Yet is still exists. Good thoughts and software that can help. And in one sense isn't all of the Web and hyperlinks a form...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Edward Tufte
In the Washington Monthly, a good article on visualization guru Edward Tufte. " ... Edward Tufte occupies a revered and solitary place in the world of graphic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flying Robots Form Emergency Network
From IEEE Computer.Org a kind of mobile computer sourcing.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Live Webcast: The U.S. Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop
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From Schneier on Security
The Inner Workings of an FBI Surveillance Device
This FBI surveillance device, designed to be attached to a car, has been taken apart and analyzed. A recent ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirms...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Posts 16 May 2011
Computer Science teacher Pat Yongpradit seems to be everywhere on the educational blogosphere lately. I posted about his 5-6 week XNA course curriculum last week...
From Wild WebMink
? Speaking at OSBC
If you’re at the Open Source Business Conference, OSBC, in San Francisco today and tomorrow, you have three opportunities to hear me speak (or three sessions to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zoomable Sky Survey
A very impressive zoomable sky survey. Will this mean that ultimately we will not care if the sky is hopelessly washed out by light? I hope not. " ... What do...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Big Data and Analytics
Mark Montgomery of KYield sends this along, Yes, lots of interesting statistics. He writes: This needed to be done by someone and they did a good job --comprehensive...
From The Noisy Channel
In Search Of Structure
A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a summit that Greylock Partners organized for its portfolio companies at LinkedIn to discuss the power of data. Invited...
From Putting People First
UX Lx, a user experience conference in Lisbon
Jeroen van Geel and Vicky Teinaki report on Johnny Holland on UX Lx, the international user experience conference that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, May 11-13...
From Putting People First
The kitchen-table industrialists
My favourite New York Times writer Anand Giridharadas delved into the topic of “making stuff” in this week’s Magazine. “The American romance with making actual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Textbooks Flunk a Test?
In Nicholas Carr's Roughtype blog, a look at early experiments with e-textbooks. Does not look good, but again, with many adjustments, likely inevitable:" ... But...
From Putting People First