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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
Physics of a Flower's Bloom
Mathematicians build a model of flowers' blooming. An unexpected and magical thing. I hope this kind of modeling has other applications. Surely it must have...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Patty Azzarello on Succeeding While Loving Life
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI for short) Board of Advisers meeting last week was really inspirational. On the morning of the second day...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - December 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 12)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the December issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Object Oriented Programming is Dead
OK perhaps not dead but Robert Harper, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, says(Teaching FP to freshmen) that object oriented programming and design is...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Open Networking Foundation Announced
Nearly two dozen IT companies are
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fibonnaci Investments
Good piece on the the use of Fibonacci technical analysis in the investment world. Also a good explanation of Fibonacci numbers and their relationship to concepts...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Calling for Challenges & Visions Sessions
As we’ve previously blogged here, the CCC has sponsored three Challenges & Visions Sessions at computing research conferences over the past year, seeking to give...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Principles for Visual Communications
In the ACM: Design Principles for Visual Communication: How to identify, instantiate, and evaluate domain-specific design principles for creating more effective...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ScanBuy at Home Depot
Do it yourself stores have a particular challenge, they often need to train shoppers in the use of many products that they might buy at a store for the first time...
From Schneier on Security
Folk Models in Home Computer Security
This is a really interesting paper: "Folk Models of Home Computer Security," by Rick Wash. It was presented at SOUPS, the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson