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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
Knoesis at Wright State
Kno.e.sis: Brought to my attention, I will be attending their formal launch on Monday and report back. See also their current news. ' ... Our cutting-edge research...
From Computational Complexity
What Makes a Lecture "Distiguished"?
In January I gave a Distinguished Lecture in the CS Department at the University of Alberta. In early March I gave essentially the same lecture at Penn State in...
From My Biased Coin
More on Authorship
My last post, on what I called "60-40" papers, where one author does non-trivially more of the work than the other(s), seems to have generated some interesting"Author...
From Wild WebMink
? DNA and BPI
Court Rules that DNA Is Information, Not Intellectual Property While this is fantastic and much-needed news, it will take a Supreme Court decision to truly address...
From Wild WebMink
? Calling IBM To Account Is Not Judging
IBM's case against TurboHercules is not the issue; their mistake using pledged patents is.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning at the Shelf
Webinar from Quofore on April 13, 2010 at 11AM EST: More information and registration.-
From Computer Science Teachers Association
"Training" Should Be a Four-Letter Word
"We need to train more teachers." "Teachers need more training in order to be successful at teaching computer science." "More teacher training programs are...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptanalysis of the DECT
New cryptanalysis of the proprietrary encryption algorithm used in the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) standard for cordless phones. Abstract...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Innovation Success Factors
Good piece on Open Innovation: ' ... an article that supports my own observations. The report is about a qualitative interview study on the state of implementation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Costs of Complexity in the Enterprise
Mark Montgomery of KYield discusses hidden costs of complexity in the enterprise.-
From Computational Complexity
Baseball violates the rules of mathematics!!
(Looking for a roomate for STOC. Check out this site..) Baseball Season started this week. I want to point out that Baseball violates mathematics in two ways...
From Wild WebMink
? When Reptiles Attack
What is the significance of IBM’s patent attack on the company behind the open source Hercules community? I believe it indicates a change in the balance of power...
From Schneier on Security
The Effectiveness of Air Marshals
Air marshals are being arrested faster than air marshals are making arrests. Actually, there have been many more arrests of Federal air marshals than that story...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Barriers and Strategies for K-12 Computer Science Teachers
An interesting new report from Anita Borg Institute, CSTA and the University of Arizona called
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Books Worth Reading
Some books I've read recently have a lot of applicability to education in general and computer science education in specific. So I thought I'd share... The Mathematician's...
From The Noisy Channel
Go TunkRank!
I haven’t talked much about TunkRank in the past months, largely because Jason Adams, who stepped up to the TunkRank Implementation Challenge last year, has been...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Court Ruling Will Stall FCC
Yesterday a federal appeals court ruled in a case involving the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) efforts to sanction Comcast for violating the FCC's net...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog