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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Obama highlights computer science
In his major address on immigration policy on July 1, President Barack Obama noted: “And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Robots
Two of them; one was blogged about last year.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Reco Engine
ReadwriteWeb posts about the newly released Facebook recommendation engine. Have not looked at it yet. I have never had good experience with reco engines. They...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality You Can Touch
From CACM: Continuing developments in the science of haptics: Virtual Reality You Can Reach Out and TouchA team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported...
From Putting People First
Intel launches new interaction and experience research division
At the Intel Labs’ annual Research at Intel media event, Intel Corporation Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner announced a new research division, called Interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holistic Framework for Knowledge Management
An interesting paper recently discovered. Often an issue for the enterprise.-
From Putting People First
Smart meters not smart enough for consumers
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy on Tuesday released results of a survey finding that energy use feedback tools are more important than smart...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Team USA Heads to Poland to Compete in the Imagine Cup
Well the USA may be out of the World Cup but that
From Computational Complexity
Theory Happenings
FOCS accepts, abstracts and PDFs. The conference itself will be held October 23-26 in Las Vegas. There is a proposed TCS version of Math Overflow, a Q&A site to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Reflection on ISTE 2010
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From Putting People First
Glen Cove conference on strategic design and public policy
Ever keen to expand the boundaries of their practices, design professionals have been moving in the direction of public policy for some years, writes Lucy Kimbell...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Career Outlook for CS Students
The CACM web site has an interesting interview with Joel Adams (Joel Adams Discusses the Career Outlook for CS Students) Joel Adams
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Studies World Cup Access
Wharton WIMI studies how fans access the World Cup via ESPN: " ... ESPN, which is televising the World Cup, is using the soccer tournament as a living laboratory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm, Mattel Push Augmented Reality
It makes sense for a toy manufacturer to look at this. it is well known that some smartphone game Apps are very big profit makers for well known toy companies....
From Schneier on Security
Vigilant Citizens: Then vs. Now
This is from Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself, published in 1950: Of course, millions of us will go through our lives never seeing a spy or a saboteur...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Temporal Analytics Engine
Wim Van de Velde points me the Recorded Future Site, which I had missed. What they call a temporal analytics engine. Not descriptive enough as a title. Just exploring...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography Failure Story
By Russian spies: Ricci said the steganographic program was activated by pressing control-alt-E and then typing in a 27-character password, which the FBI found...
From Putting People First