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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Save the Date - Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2011
The Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP) will take place this year June 14 through the 16th in Washington D.C. ACM is one of the conference sponsors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buyology Inc Releases NeuroTypes
I see that the neuromarketing firm Buyology Inc has released their Neurotype approach, applying it to determine the ranking of the most desired brands for men and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Mobile Apps
Interesting piece in Computerworld:Escape the App Store: 4 ways to create smartphone Web apps By Peter Wayner" So you want to get your software in the hands of...
From Wild WebMink
? Learning Opportunities
On WebM again: freedom, quality, patents The arguments made against WebM video by H.264 advocates turn out to be at best wildly exaggerated and at worst baseless...
From Schneier on Security
Kip Hawley Comments on the Domodedovo Airport Bombing
This is the first piece of writing I've seen from Kip Hawley since he left the TSA in 2009. It's mostly generalities and platitudes.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Prototypes from Microsoft Education Labs
Microsoft Education Labs is a sort of technology playground for the Microsoft Education Products group. They have a blog and other pages to share ideas and have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia Now 10 Years Old, and it Works
Everyone has problems with the Wikipedia, now over ten years old, but it does work and it is often the place to go first for encyclopedia style information. ...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Proposed Web Accessibility Rules
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990, and did not address the Internet. However, the Department of Justice established, most notably through...
From Wild WebMink
? The Open-By-Rule Governance Benchmark
With Oracle’s OpenJDK Project about to announce new community governance, many people have asked what I look for in good open source project and community governance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Shelf Life of Great Ideas
In VentureBeat/Entrepreneur Corner: Some interesting startup lessons and ideas. These are the kinds of ideas that aim to set the stage, and are to a large degree...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Color-Coded Terrorist Threat Levels
I wrote an op-ed for CNN.com on the demise of the color-coded terrorist theat level system. It's nothing I haven't said before, so I won't reprint it here. The...
From Wild WebMink
? Rebooting Procurement
European Commission consults on the modernisation of the European Public Procurement Market The European Commission’s consultation is in progress until April. It...
From Wild WebMink
? Sirius News
When we started last year, it was thrilling to see how many companies responded when we asked who would be interested in reselling ForgeRock subscriptions, consulting...
From Putting People First
New encyclopedia on interactive design, usability and user experience
The people behind Interaction-Design.org introduced a new type of top-quality and free encyclopedia dealing with Interactive Design, Usability, and User Experience...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursive Loops
Last week I wrote about loops and how some students seem to have trouble with them. On the link to it from Facebook one friend of mine asked
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Network Connector from IBM
I have talked to IBM several times about their development of social connectivity software. What I saw, developed for internal use, was impressive. Now they have...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
WISE Steps to Success a Big Success
Last Wednesday CU-WISE held a professional development event called WISE Steps to Success for a second year. It's one of our flagship events, and was designedsee...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Thinking About Summer Camps
Now that the new year has arrived, it is time to start looking forward to the summer and computer camps. Last year, I ran my first computer camp for twenty-two...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Not Even Eventually Consistent
Many databases engines ensure consistency: at any given time, the database state is logically consistent. For example, even if you receive purchase requests by...
From Computational Complexity