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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
Evolution of the Google File System
From CACM. An interesting technical and historical piece about decisions made at Google to make their massive file requirements work on challenging hardware: '...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Buy to Buy Back
Evan Schuman in StoreFrontBackTalk writes about the intriguing implications of Best Buy re-purchasing used products: ' ... With the economy putting intense pressure...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Using a Sports Coaching Model to Support Informal Education
As a professional community, we need better idea of how many computer science teachers are also involved in informal education. I have a sense that there are many...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing a Fragrance
Can a fragrance be crowdsourced? " ... New Global Online Platform 'Womanity' Will Try, With Help From Women and Martin Sorrell ... French beauty marketer Clarins...
From Putting People First
The analogue human and the digital machine
Steve Portigal, Julie Norvaisas and Dan Soltzberg of Portigal Consulting were invited by Core77 to discuss what makes their clocks tick: the analogue human and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Innovation Imperative
This is a relatively old article, but worth reading again:The Innovation ImperativeBy Darrel Rhea, Cheskin CEOOriginally published in The HUB Magazine, March 2006Attempts...
From Schneier on Security
Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative
On Tuesday, the White House published an unclassified summary of its Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI). Howard Schmidt made the announcement...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Upcoming Microsoft Teacher Leader Training Events
Are you an educator responsible for providing technology training to colleagues? Do you frequently lead teachers with best practices on how to integrate technology...
From Putting People First
The experience design of Windows Phone 7
One of the key figures in redefining the Windows experience on smartphones is Albert Shum, who’s been with Microsoft for barely two-and-a-half two years. His previous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Everywhere
From the Economist:Data, data everywhereInformation has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)
From Computational Complexity
Special Issue of TOC in honor of Rajeev Motwani
(Guest post by Samir Khuller, Sudipto Guha, Laci Babai) Special Issue of the journal Theory of Computing in honor of Rajeev Motwani (1962 - 2009) Submit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Writers Block
IBM was one of the first companies to actively encourage their employees to blog. As a way to accumulate knowledge and make social network connections in and outside...
From Schneier on Security
Crypto Implementation Failure
Look at this new AES-encrypted USB memory stick. You enter the key directly into the stick via the keypad, thereby bypassing any eavesdropping software on the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Newsletters for Computer Science Teachers
Maybe you are the sort who likes their news to come on paper. Or perhaps you just like your news in regularly scheduled chunks. Perhaps you like someone to do gathering...
From Putting People First
Debunking the Idea of Digital Natives
The Economist questions whether it is really helpful to talk about a new generation of “digital natives” who have grown up with the internet. “Writing in the British...
From CERIAS Blog
Cowed Through DNS
May 2010 will mark the 4th aniversary of our collective cowing by spammers, malware authors and botnet operators. In 2006, spammers squashed Blue Frog. They made...
From Putting People First
Experientia
Over the last five years experience design consultancy Experientia has grown from new beginnings to a vibrant company with a large portfolio. To showcase our latest...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Lessons on Active Learning
On 2/18/2010 I went to a talk on getting students involved in classes even if there are 200 of them in the class. It was about active learning, and not surprisingly...
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to David Johnson, Knuth Prize Winner
I'm pleased to hear that David Johnson has won the Knuth Prize for "his contributions to theoretical and experimental analysis of algorithms." David has done a...
From Computational Complexity