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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
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
Phillipe Flajolet passed away
Today I read on Lipton's Blog that Phillipe Flajolet passed away (1948-2011). Flajolet worked in Analytic Combinatorics. His book with Sedgewick on the field (see...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Axatra
Was just introduced to Axatra, a company that develops cloud-based solutions. See their site for more about their custom development capabilities.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Frans Kaashoek to Receive ACM-Infosys Foundation Award
Frans Kaashoek, a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (and a current member of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Energy Saving IT in Manufacturing
Short HBR piece on smart energy saving in manufacturing at GM. In my own experience in manufacturing, similar things had been done for years. Yet it is good that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flipping Education
Watch videos at home, then have limited class time for help with a teacher. A TED video. Overall not a bad idea. The social dynamics of teacher and student...
From Wild WebMink
? Android
Amazon.com lets you play with an Android virtual machine, try apps before you buy them I’ve installed Amazon’s AppStore on my Android phone and I’m finding it much...
From Schneier on Security
Federated Authentication
New paper by Ross Anderson: "Can We Fix the Security Economics of Federated Authentication?": There has been much academic discussion of federated authentication...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Projects
It seems as though teachers are always looking for new projects to use with students. Projects get stale (at least to a teacher who has been grading lots of them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones and Shopping
Chief Marketer dissects a recent study of smartphones for retail. The overall conclusion is they are in heavy use for information gathering. This study includes...
From Computational Complexity
An unusual Voting Scheme
(I want to thank Bobby Kleinberg for bringing this to my attention.) Consider the following voting scheme Choose a random person A1. A1 chooses a set at...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 28
UPDATE: The March 29 hearing on cyber attacks has been postponed. No new date has been scheduled. March 29 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation...
From The Eponymous Pickle