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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 CERIAS Blog
Blast from the Past
Yes, I have been quiet (here) over the last few months, and have a number of things to comment on. This hiatus is partly because of schedule, partly because I had...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Analogies in the Classroom
I don't know about you, but when I teach I am constantly using analogies to relate computing concepts to real-world experiences the students are familiar with....
From Putting People First
Why can
Why not use the iPhone interface as the basis for a new round of Apple computers? What if Microsoft scrapped the front end of Windows 7 and the troubled Vista OS...
From Putting People First
For newspapers to survive, they must put users first
If publications continue to rely on selling advertising to support their costs, how does that serve the audience’s needs? Fast Company provides three ideas for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast on Advanced BIS
From the Business Intelligence Network:Teradata and SAS Address the Challenges of Advanced Business AnalyticsRob Berman, Teradata Vice President, and Scott Van...
From Computational Complexity
Doing it OLD SCHOOL!
If you browse the Univ of MD Schedule Web pages for the last few years I would: Ask you why you were doing that. Seems like an odd use of your time. Point out...
From Putting People First
The Netherlands
Focusing on improving and innovating services is a smart way to foster economic growth. Jeneanne Rae reports from the Netherlands. “Recognizing the need to steer...
From Putting People First
Article series on futures thinking
Jamais Cascio, who covers the intersection of emerging technologies and cultural transformation for Fast Company, is in the process of publishing an ‘occasional’...
From Putting People First
Diabetes Innovation Fair videos online
Videos of the November 23, 2009 Diabetes Innovation Fair at the IIT Institute of Design are now on the web. Graduate students presented design innovation proposals...
From My Biased Coin
STOC Budget Questions
I hate to follow the interesting conversations on FOCS/STOC/SODA (please keep commenting) with the mundane, but Lance forced me asked me to be General Chair for...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-25
EU Data Protection Supervisor Warns Against ACTA, Calls 3 Strikes Disproportionate Very welcome - and beuatifully-constructed -...
From Schneier on Security
Small Planes and Lone Terrorist Nutcases
A Washington Post article concludes that small planes are not the next terror threat: Pilots of private planes fly about 200,000 small and medium-size aircraft...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Students to Business Career Streams
Microsoft is doing a number of things to help people enter and grow in technology careers. Yesterday there was a post on Microsoft On The Issues called Microsoft...
From Wild WebMink
Blog Move
With the change from Sun in the UK almost complete, I've decided to move my blog. Please adjust your feed, and read on over at Wild Webmink.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superbowl Ad Analyses
Sands Research sends along complete rankings and background from their yearly Superbowl Ad study. " ... Leading neuromarketing firm Sands Research announced today...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Want a Job? Major in CS.
Carolyn Duffy Marsan writes in Network World that undergraduate enrollments in computer science are rising significantly at some of the nation’s large CS departments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In-Store Food Preparation
Some time ago I mentioned the increasing dive for in-store automatic preparation of foods, here in the Chicago Sun Times, the manufacture of snack chips in the....
From Apophenia
Empowering Parents & Protecting Children in an Evolving Media Landscape
The FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the important topic of empowering parents and protecting youth in an era of an evolving media landscape.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Convergence of BI and BPM Examined
Holger Kisker in the Forrester blog writes about the convergence of business intelligence and business process management. ' ... When business processes finally...
From Schneier on Security