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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Embedded Phenomena, Augmented Reality, and Education
I love it when something so simple is so effective. Tom Moher's 2006 paper [ACM, CiteSeer] describing his work on what he calls Embedded Phenomena was a case of...
From Computational Complexity
Two Candidates for an Ig Noble in Mathematics
(This is a sequel to my post on the Ig Nobel Prize.) Two candidates for an Ig Nobel prizes in Mathematics. They deserve it for opposite reasons. (They are old...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where do Innovations Come From?
The hive mind say Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson. Maybe they are nurtured (or not) that way, but all the really good and remarkable ideas I have seen have come...
From Schneier on Security
The FBI is Tracking Whom?
They're tracking a college student in Silicon Valley. He's 20, partially Egyptian, and studying marketing at Mission College. He found the tracking device attached...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Programming For Kids
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Procrastination
James Surowiecki in the New Yorker: What does procrastination tell us about ourselves? Orin Kerr in Volokh follows with the suggestion that procrastinationmay...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tell Them Where to Go in Retail
Click through to see the whole thing: Tell 'em Where to Go; Tell 'em Which to Buy!(The "Path-to-Purchase" Ought to Be a U-Turn)September 30, 2010 - by Herb Sorensen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posterous gets an App
In ReadwriteWeb: The minimalist blogging platform called Posterous is something I am experimenting with for getting blogging into the hand of clients. They now...
From Schneier on Security
The Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination
Remember the Mahmoud al-Mabhouh assassination last January? The police identified 30 suspects, but haven't been able to find any of them. Police spent about 10...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What are you using?
I blog about a lot of resources here and I
From The Eponymous Pickle
In-Facility Navigation
In the NYT (May require registration): Finding Your Way Through the Mall or the Airport, With a Cellphone Map. Not a very new idea, but a reasonable overview...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Lion Testing
In Supermarket News, Bloom's Food Lion is testing a 3GTV television network in store. " ... will examine the best way to utilize video and other digital media...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AnalyticBridge
I see that AnalyticBridge has a newly designed web site. Nicely done. They position themselves as the social network for analytics professionals.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-11
IBM joins the OpenJDK community and dumps Apache Harmony "IBM will work with Oracle and the Java community to make OpenJDK the primary high performance open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Promotes the Fourth Screen
According to this article and a number of others there are four screens that Google would like to get hold of:The TV, the Computer, the Mobile Phone .... and the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Developments in Exploring CS Curriculum
There have been exciting developments in the Los Angeles Exploring Computer Science program. This past week, the university-district-CSTA partnership received...
From Schneier on Security
The Economist on Biometrics
Good article. Here's my essay on biometrics, from 1999.
From Computational Complexity
The NSF Takes Shape
As I've mentioned before, the NSF is turning over top to bottom especially in computer science. Most of the pieces are now in place so let's check out the new personnel...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson