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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces Round Two of Its
Last Wednesday, the NSF announced the second round of an international grant competition designed to spur cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences...
From Putting People First
Design!publiC: design for governance in India
LiveMint.com, the Indian online partner publication of the Wall Street Journal, reports on India
From Schneier on Security
Identifying Tor Users Through Insecure Applications
Interesting research: "One Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch: Exploiting P2P Applications to Trace and Profile Tor Users": Abstract: Tor is a popular low-latency anonymity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trolls and Copyrights
A judicial case addresses the right to re-post. But I don't think this is the last we will hear about fair-use in blogs.
From Apophenia
The Politics of Queering Anything
Sitting at an academic conference years ago, I was struck by the marginalization of various voices under the guise of inclusion. There were queer panels and race...
From Wild WebMink
? The Tyranny Of The Urgent
I’m nearing the end of the amazingly busy patch that March has turned out to be for me, and I can tell I must be getting older because I am running out of energy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leadership Lessons from P&G
From the Burghard Group: Leadership Lessons From P&G, 10 Lessons from Leaders: 1.Get to know people as individuals. Group activities are great for building teams...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Open Algorithm Contests Powering Predictive Analyses
A number of news organizations
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Putting Money Where it Counts: Teacher Salaries
President Obama wants to spend $90 million on ARPA-ED, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Education. The goal is to fund porjects that will "transform teaching...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Google Books Settlement Remains Unsettled
The ongoing saga of the Google Books case will continue, according to a recent opinion from the judge overseeing the negotiated settlement. Google Books prompted...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Words and Phrases in Encrypted VoIP Calls
Interesting: Abstract: Although Voice over IP (VoIP) is rapidly being adopted, its security implications are not yet fully understood. Since VoIP calls may traverse...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks Mobile Payment Popular
Starbucks payment method using mobile phones and 2D bar code scanning is apparently quite successful. Now over three million people have used the capability. There have...
From Schneier on Security
Transmitting Data Through Steel
This is cool: Tristan Lawry, doctoral candidate in electrical and computer engineering, has developed equipment which can transmit data at high rates through thick...
From Putting People First
Google UK
Think Quarterly is a 64 page magazine published by Google UK “that brings together some of the world’s leading minds to discuss the big issues facing businesses...
From Putting People First
Motion and the clay of interaction design
David Malouf, Professor of Interaction Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design, is in constant pursuit of the
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From Putting People First
Open cities empower citizens
A recent Knight Foundation/Pew Research study shows how important, demonstrating that if citizens believe their city governments behave in a transparent manner...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Online Magazine
Google has started a quarterly online magazine, based in the UK. Think Quarterly. There is also a good Mashable review of the first issue. Glossy format, overviews...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Know the biases of your operating system
Douglas Rushkoff wrote in Life Inc. that our society is nothing more than an operating system upon which we (as software) live: The landscape on which we are living...
From The Eponymous Pickle