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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Wisdom in Lists
Like a lot of people I have an affection for lists that condense a lot of wisdom into a brief set of statements or items. Some time ago I wrote a series of posts...
From The Noisy Channel
An Information Cascade
I’ve been reading Networks, Crowds, and Markets, a great textbook by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. I’m very grateful to Cambridge University Press for surprising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Standard for Supercomputing
In the CACM: Sandia Labs will be delivering a new proposed set of standards for Supercomputing today which is more closely related to the kinds of tasks that are...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandery Opens New Start-ups
Thr Brandery launches six new startups in Cincinnati. In Dave Knox's blog.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan Inc's Regrowth
Bain Inc writes about the reenergization of Japan Inc. I followed Japan in the 90's in the area of artificial intelligence ... A view of their direction and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curation vs Aggregation
A good piece on the very idea of the human network. Remember us? I think there is much to be said for linking together human and Internets in new ways. There...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pledge to Participate in and be a Supporter of Computer Science Education Week!
Computer Science Education week is December 5-11, 2010 this year. ACM and the chair of CSed Week steering committer are asking people to sign up and pledge to support...
From Wild WebMink
? H.264
My essay unpacking the meaning of ‘free’ H.264 licensing is now available in the Essays section. It provides a case study in why apparently fair “Reasonable and...
From Putting People First
How data use and data visualisations can improve our lives
Data use and smart human-centric data visualisations are becoming the “next big thing” in UX design. A number of posts this week delve into the matter: Data for...
From Putting People First
The newest web users are changing the culture of the internet
The newest billion people to venture online are doing so in developing countries rather than North America or Europe, writes Erik German in Globalpost, and they...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Cybersecurity Policy Discussion Will Include USACM Chair
On November 22, former national cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke will discuss cybeersecurity and cybersecurity policy at the AAAS in Washington, D.C. As part...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Imagine Cup: Becoming a Computer Scientist
We all know there aren't enough women in computer science. There have been several different approaches to encouraging them to consider it as a career, from fun...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Robot's Body of Knowledge
An article in IEEE Spectrum showing robots doing common household tasks inspired me to think again about our own experiments with robots in the enterprise. Like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mathematica 8 Allows Natural Language Input
This is a pretty remarkable development: " ... With the release of Mathematica 8 today, the single most dramatic change is that you don
From Schneier on Security
Term Paper Writing for Hire
This recent essay (commentary here) reminded me of this older essay, both by people who write student term papers for hire. There are several services that dopersonal...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Windows Phone 7 Development for Absolute Beginners
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Tweeting Students Get Higher Grades
In the Chronicle of Higher Education. An interesting study, but this could likely encounter the 'causal fallacy'. It is likely that many other aspects of context...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Near Field Communications Support
Google announces that versions of the Android mobile operating system will include NFC (Near Field Communications) support. NFC enables short range, about 10...