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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
Dole and Price Chopper Use QR
There has been much in the news lately about the use of QR codes in Grocery. In this latest example, covered briefly in Supermarket News, Dole and Price Chopper...
From Wild WebMink
? Web Karma?
@webminkSimon Phipps Is the FBI's OpenBSD vulnerability the Universe's way of fixing a karma imbalance caused by the EFF winning 4th amendment rights for e-mail...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
They're not dumb. They're different. How do we keep them?
One of my favorite little (really little) books, published in 1990, is Sheila Tobias' They're not dumb. They're different: Stalking the Second Tier. Yes. In 1990...
From Wild WebMink
? Open Source and Government
Australia Government Report Warns Against Including IP In Trade Agreements It ought to be obvious that concessions to create a copyright and patent regime that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS&IT 2011
The Computer Science Teachers Association sent out a call for proposals for the Annual CSTA Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium (for 2011) today...
From Putting People First
Designing (for) women
AIGA has uploaded the videos of the 2010 Gain conference. Erica Eden, senior industrial designer at Smart Design, and co-founder at Femme Den, was one of the speakers...
From Putting People First
Untangling the web with Aleks Krotoski
How has the most revolutionary innovation of our time – the internet – transformed our world? What does it mean for the modern family? How has it changed our concepts...
From Putting People First
Happiness doesn
A survey of developed and developing countries suggests citizens’ sense of wellbeing does not rise with increasing wealth. “Getting richer does not make a country...
From The Eponymous Pickle
mCosm Facebook Page
I see that mCosm, who worked with us in the enterprise and innovation centers and has been written about a number of times in this blog, now has a Facebook page...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Rejected From CHI and I Feel Fine
I remember seeing a non-zero amount of grumbling last year when acceptance notifications for CHI came out. In particular, those who were rejected listed all kinds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing 500 Million Facebook Members
In the BBC, an article on visualizing all of the world facebook connections. What is driven home here is the impressive density of the connections world-wide. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maps for That: Crowdsourcing Your Mind
Mindjet a vendor of mind mapping software that I have successfully used in the past, has come out with a map sharing site called Maps-for-that. Nice idea. The...
From Schneier on Security
Realistic Masks
They're causing problems: A white bank robber in Ohio recently used a "hyper-realistic" mask manufactured by a small Van Nuys company to disguise himself as a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Library Science Blogs
Brought to my attention for some work I am doing regarding cataloging and classification: 50 Excellent Library Science Blogs Worth Reading.
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPads and Archaeology
Doug Lautzenheiser gives another example of iPad usage, in one of my favorite areas of interests, Archaeology. As a means of simply gathering information as one...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: PCAST to Release NITRD Review on Thursday
As previously noted in this space, on Thursday, December 16th at 2:15 p.m. EST, the President’s Council of
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Lady Gaga and Computer Science
Recently I heard a British author on the radio lamenting that the world is more obsessed with what Lady Gaga wears (I would think it probably goes beyond her clothes...
From Schneier on Security
Evan Kohlmann
Interesting profile of Evan Kohlmann: Evan Kohlmann spends his days lurking in the darkest corners of the Internet, where jihadists recruit sympathizers from across...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson