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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 Schneier on Security
Comodo Group Issues Bogus SSL Certificates
This isn't good: The hacker, whose March 15 attack was traced to an IP address in Iran, compromised a partner account at the respected certificate authority Comodo...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rock Paper Scissors Takes To The Cloud
Rock Paper Scissors is a fun little project I have talked about before (most recently at Heuristics
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mynd: A Thought Cap by Neurofocus
In FastCompany: Thinking Cap: "Mynd" Is the First Dry, iPhone-Compatible, Portable Brain Scanner "Neuromarketing goes mobile with this lightweight, dry, and iPhone...
From My Biased Coin
Time (for those at state universities?) to switch e-mail accounts
While I've successfully resisted urges to return to blogging, I wanted to point to something. For those who might have missed this, I encourage you to go read William...
From Geeking with Greg
Latest reading
Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently:Google tries again in social, this time focusing on the common trend of having sharing buttons...
From Wild WebMink
? Switzerland Celebrates Document Freedom Day
How did Document Freedom Day gone for you? If you need a reminder about it, I wrote about why document freedom matters a month or so ago. But I note that in Switzerland...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Degrees: Future Phone View
Anna Miller sends along a link to a good article on the future of phones in her blog. She writes for Online Degree: " ... When we first started Online Degree...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
No More Excuses for Lack of Access
One of the concerns we frequently hear from our members is that administrators and policy makers are not convinced of the need for students to have access to rigorous...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Social Web or Tempo Web?
Back in 2004, Tim O’Reilly observed that the Web had changed, and coined the term Web 2.0. This new Web is made of several layers which enable the Social Web. Wikipedia...
From Putting People First
Service Design Toolkit for the design of public services
Yesterday Brussels saw the launch of the English version of the Service Design Toolkit, which Design Flanders developed together with Belgian consultancies Yellow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Educators, Enterprises and Gaming
An HBR post asks when educators will get serious about gaming? The same question could also be asked about when business will become serious about gaming constructs...
From Schneier on Security
How Peer Review Doesn't Work
In this amusing story of a terrorist plotter using pencil-and-paper cryptography instead of actually secure cryptography, there's this great paragraph: Despite...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Nicol Challenge and My Latest Idea for Girls, Computer Science, and Games
On a whim, I entered the Carleton Nicol Challenge and was thrilled to make it to the Top 8. I pitched my idea in front of a panel of judges (apparently in Dragon's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPS Check-ins, True and False
Short piece on the opportunity of using GPS check-ins for disaster relief and location. Nice idea I had been thinking about. But at the same time showing the ease...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Spring is Here!
The calendar has now reached the beginning of spring. With the arrival of the birds singing and flowers blooming also comes eighth graders and high school students...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
National Science Board Talks
The National Science Board (NSB) held an Expert Panel Discussion on Data Policies at the National Science Foundation yesterday & today, exploring the opportunities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Plays Matchmaker
In a previous post I mentioned an RFID name tag being marketing by Wizard Studios that aids in interest match-making at conferences. . Here is more about that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Computing in IEEE Computer
This month's IEEE Computer emphasizes Cloud Computing. A number of useful articles including some freely accessible.
From Computational Complexity