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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
Mini-Course: Round Three
I'm super excited to be doing round three of my week-long mini-course for grade eight girls 'Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls!' this May. I've been thinking...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-24
Get Involved with Open Source For America Great new video about OSFA, well worth passing on. (tags: OpenSource ...
From Schneier on Security
Intercepting Predator Video
Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Iraqi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Analytics
Eric Siegel on the future of analytics in the SAS COM Blog.-
From My Biased Coin
New Result : Tight Asymptotic Bounds for the Deletion Channel with Small Deletion Probabilities
Posting will be light over winter break, in part because so little is going on, but more because I'm busy working on papers for upcoming deadlines. I'll describe...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Holiday Reading Corner
Ah, the holiday break. Time to relax, catch up on sleep, and perhaps read a book or two. If you are looking for some interesting reading related to CS education...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Networks
The value of understanding a dynamic system as a quantifiable network with a distinct architecture has always intrigued me. Very early on we constructed networks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Honest with Yourself
On the consequences of fooling yourself. With implications for private label purchasing decisions?
From Schneier on Security
Plant Security Countermeasures
The essay is about veganism and plant eating, but I found the descriptions of plant security countermeasures interesting: Plants can
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft bliink Contest in the State of Illinois
I made mention of this announcement when it was first made in October. I hope that if you are at a high school in Illinois you know about this and are getting involved...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-23
Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment Excellent and typically thorough treatment of copyright assignment from Michael Meeks. I'm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinvention of BI
Good piece in Information Management by David M Raab: The Reinvention of BI as We Know itTotal cost of ownership analyses must be expanded to properly capture the...
From Schneier on Security
Luggage Locator
Wow, is this a bad idea: The Luggage Locator is an innovative product that travellers or anyone can use to locate items. It has been specifically engineered to...
From Computational Complexity
How to tell how good a TV show is
(This is my last blog of the year. Lance will interupt his blog sabbatical to do an END OF THE YEAR blog later.) The TV show MONK recently finished its 8thHow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Gifts do Better than Banner Ads
So called 'virtual gifts', which are basically ads that are passed along in social networks, appear to be more effective than banner ads. Some good examples and...
From Schneier on Security
Howard Schmidt to be Named U.S. Cybersecurity Czar
I head this rumor two days ago, and The New York Times is reporting today. Reporters are calling me for reactions and opinions, but I just don't know. Schmidt...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Women and Computer Science
The Internet was a buzz last week with reports of a study done on the effects of environment on women’s interest in computer science. (Links to articles below)Rock...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WolframAlpha Year-end Update
An update on what WolframAlpha has done and plans to do in the coming year. I like their direction, but they still have far to go. They have very impressive demonstrations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Auto Wifi
Wired view of the current state of using cars as mobile hotspots and their planned usage. New specific work by Ford is detailed. I am less interested in how I could...
From Computer Science Teachers Association