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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 Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 01/15/2010
Smart phones blessed in Canon David Parrott’s 3G church service “Yesterday, in the church of the City of London Corporation, he presented an updated version of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Some Thoughts On Getting The Most From Ed Tech Conferences
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From The Noisy Channel
When Is Faceted Search Appropriate?
Earlier this week, Peter Morville and Mark Burrell presented a UIE virtual seminar on “Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns For Great Online Experiences“. It...
From Schneier on Security
Ray McGovern on Intelligence Failures
Good commentary from former CIA analyst Ray McGovern: The short answer to the second sentence is: Yes, it is inevitable that "certain plots will succeed." A more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppers Want more Interactivity
Not a surprising result, consumers want more interactivity from retailers: ' ... For example, 75 percent of those surveyed want their mobile phones to tell them...
From My Biased Coin
Letters and Rights
I generally assume students know to waive their rights to look at a letter of recommendation when they ask me to write one, but I recently ran into a student that...
From Schneier on Security
$3.2 Million Jewelry Store Theft
I've written about this sort of thing before: A robber bored a hole through the wall of jewelry shop and walked off with about 200 luxury watches worth 300 million...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Functional Food Advances
Advances in Soy protein chemistry seem to indicate increased abilty to release functional ingredients slowly. Article in FoodNavigator.
From Computational Complexity
Do Innovative papers have a hard time getting into STOC and FOCS? I ask this objectively with no ax or teeth to grind.
(This is my last post until next week Tuesday.) Many people believe the following: FOCS and STOC only take technically hard results on problems that we already...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
FETC Day 1 (2010)
My first piece of advice to anyone attending FETC or other major education technology conference is don’t show up at the end of three weeks away from home. I did...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Fun Through Fantasy and Narrative
An interesting topic came up in a recent game design class. We were talking about various types of fun after trying to define fun itself (which, by the way, is...
From Putting People First
From people to prototypes and products: ethnographic liquidity and the Intel Global Aging Experience study
The latest Intel Technology Journal (Volume 13, Issue 30 reports the research and development activities of the Intel Digital Health Group and its colleagues. One...
From Schneier on Security
Body Cavity Scanners
At least one company is touting its technology: Nesch, a company based in Crown Point, Indiana, may have a solution. It’s called diffraction-enhanced X-ray imaging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Arithmetic Stifles Creativity
Long division no longer taught, stifles student creativity. Make sure your batteries are fresh. ' ...Only 57% of college freshman at the University of Washington...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Docs to Host All File Types
In an interesting development Google says it will host all file types up to 250 MB in size. Sharing large files is always a problem. This will surely put some...
From Putting People First
Design for sustainable behaviour (part 3)
Can design change behavior? Although at times it can seem difficult to change just one person
From Schneier on Security
Airplane Security Commentary
Excellent commentary from The Register: As the smoke clears following the case of Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the failed Christmas Day "underpants bomber" of Northwest...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Creating the Expertise We Need
By now you have likely received the January issue of the CSTA Voice and discovered the exciting NSF plans for growing 10,000 new CS teachers and reaching 10,000...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hive Thinking
Jaron Lanier in the NYT. We were introduced to him and his Virtual Reality work years ago at the Institute for the Future. Some good points in the article, though...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog