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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Game Day at Carleton University
Game Day is an an annual event at Carleton University. It's a day full of lectures on various game industry topics, a LAN party, and one of many Global Game Jam...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Channels plus Context
Evan Schuman put out a good post on channels and the effect of context. Worth a full read. My thoughts on this: The original idea of the innovation centers was...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Getting Students to Test Their Programs
Animations and creation of games really does motivate students. Doesn't every student assume they can take an introductory computer science course and get a job...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target Optimizes
Alison Bolen in SAScom Voices posts about Nine Optimization Lessons from Target. " ... how Target uses guest intelligence to optimize marketing and merchandising...
From Computational Complexity
Time Space Tradeoffs for SAT- good resuls but...
This is a real conversation between BILL and STUDENT (a Software Engineering Masters Student who knows some theory). As such there are likely BETTER arguments BILL...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where to get your ebooks?
If you read my blog, you probably like to read in general. Thus, if you don’t own an ebook device, you will soon. The choice is growing: the Amazon Kindle, the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Programming Language to Teach First?
Have you ever been asked a question that you have been asked time and again but suddenly decided you have a different answer for? One of the questions I hear aDon...
From Schneier on Security
Anonymity and the Internet
Universal identification is portrayed by some as the holy grail of Internet security. Anonymity is bad, the argument goes; and if we abolish it, we can ensure only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redlaser: Scanning Faster
I have been closely following scanner smartphone Apps that read barcodes by utilizing the phones's camera. In particular the Redlaser App has gone through a number...
From The Noisy Channel
Blogging SSM 2010 and WSDM 2010
I’m delighted to report that I’ll be blogging about the Search and Social Media Workshop (SSM 2010) and the Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM 2010) for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Informatics
In IEEE Computing:Social Computing: From Social Informatics to Social Intelligenceby Fei-Yue Wang, Kathleen M. Carley, Daniel Zeng, and Wenji MaoReaders are introduced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Shopper Perspective of the Aisle
You will recall I reviewed Herb Sorensen's book: Inside the Mind of the Shopper", some time ago. Highly recommended for its insight into the scientific understanding...
From Computational Complexity
Naming and Ranking
Martin Kruskal invented Soliton Waves which were a very important concept in Physics. Rebecca Kruskal (Martin's Granddaughter): Daddy, how come they are not...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 14.1 (February 1, 2010)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] First Computer Science Education Week Finishes Strong [3] USACM Supports Expanded FCC Technical Advice [4] FY 2010 Budgets...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Surprise and Wonder in Computer Science
Last week I attended a workshop day at Stevens Institute of Technology where Michael Kolling, University of Kent and creator of Greenfoot was the keynote speaker...
From Putting People First
5 ways techno-gadgetry is bringing out the worst in humanity
Scott Hill of Alternet looks at how technology facilitates “the human sentient understanding of how to take cruel advantage of human weakness”. “Indeed, humans...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Obama
The New York Times reports that President Obama’s proposed budget includes substantial increases for science research, including an 8% increase for the National...
From Putting People First
Digital Nation, in-depth documentary, online in full
In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world. Continuing...
From My Biased Coin
Does Class Size Matter?
Preliminary stats show 55 students in my algorithms course. That's probably close to the mean and slightly above the median. It's certainly not the largest course...
From The Eponymous Pickle