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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 Putting People First
Millennials
This report on the values, attitudes, behaviors and demographic characteristics of the Millennial generation was prepared by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan...
From Putting People First
Google
Luca De Biase, the journalist I translated this morning, continues to add interesting commentary: Excerpts from this post (translated into English): “The Italian...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-24
When using open source makes you an enemy of the state Remember I mentioned the "Special 301" list yesterday, that US corporations...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Historical Documents
Just declassified: "A Reference Guide to Selected Historical Documents Relating to the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, 1931
From Putting People First
Google Video: Italian law is complicating the world
This Italian reflection on the Italian Google sentence, written by journalist Luca De Biase (in charge of the N
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic is Moving And Other Resources
Small Basic is not part of the Beginning Developer Learning Center. Looks like the whole landing page for the BDLC has been updated as well. Check out the Kids
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Design of Procter and Gamble
I have been reading The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger L. Martin of the Rotman School of Management in Toronto...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post from David Karger
Continuing from my last "controversial" post, David Karger offered the following long comment, turned into a guest post:------------I wanted to post a comment on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplicity is King
Simplicity is the mother of adoption, by Tim McLaughlin. Could not agree more.-
From Schneier on Security
The Doghouse: Demiurge Consulting
They claim to be "one of the nation's only and most respected security and intelligence providers" -- I've never heard of them -- but their blog consists entirely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Scanning: Beyond Barcodes
I have been following and testing uses of smartphones as sensors. The obvious connection is using the ubiquitous barcodes to identify things in their environments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Systems behind General Intelligence
In Science Daily, good overview of work at Caltech on the brain systems that affect general intelligence. The study shows that general intelligence is not localized...
From Computational Complexity
What is in MY automata theory course/What should be
In the last post I pondered what was more important: Automata Theory or Crypto. This raises the question of what should be in a course in automata theory. Rather...
From Schneier on Security
Mark Twain on Risk Analysis
From 1871: I hunted up statistics, and was amazed to find that after all the glaring newspaper headings concerning railroad disasters, less than three hundred...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-23
Time To Change (Or Ditch) The USTR Special 301 Process Special 301 is a nefarious mechanism that allows US corporations to request...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ASCII Art For Fun and Projects
I guess I am on a nostalgia kick. Earlier this week I found a link to an Text Ascii Art Generator over on Doug Peterson
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ARPA-E
Arun Majumdar, the Director of ARPA-E, spoke at the University of Washington on February 18th regarding the energy challenges facing our nation. While his talk...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science and America
Jeannette Wing, Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation, addressed the CRA Computing Leadership...
From The Eponymous Pickle