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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 Return 42;
The other side of the table: Peter Seibel
This issue of The other side of the table is a little bit out of schedule, mostly because of today's review of Peter Seibel's new book Coders at Work. Not onlyreview...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Government Website Policy on Web Tracking Technologies
In response to a request for comment from the Office of Science and Technology Policy, today USACM submitted comments on how federal government websites should...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
GROE Forum in Brighton, England a Major Success
Twenty researchers met in Brighton, England July 4th and 5th for the Forum to Envision the Future of Learning.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Building Partnerships and Creating Community
Building community partnerships can impact a computer science program in many ways - seen and unseen. And there is motivation for such relationships on the part...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-08-10
The Case Against Apple Apple appears to be going through exactly the same transition - from underdog to overlord - that Microsoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wiring You Up
For what useful reasons might you allow your brain to be wired up with a neural implant? A poll gives some answers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing vs Google
From Knowledge@Wharton: Bing Gives Microsoft a Boost, but Can It Compete with Google?. I have been using Bing occasionally, even comparing the two at times, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Federal CIO Dashboards
Steve Few examines the design of existing Federal CIO dashboards. He makes some excellent points. I believe that DBs should show the right data for a given responsibility...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Through Games
From the ACM: Learning Through GamesElectronic games can inspire players to explore new ideas and concepts. By gaining a better understanding of the dynamic between...
From Return 42;
Evolution of the Google File System
This week seems to be review week. While I would love to finish some more technical posts, a new article in ACM Queue stopped me from actually doing that. The article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roambi BI on the IPhone
Always thought there was a place for good interactive Business intelligence visualization on the IPhone. For example in retail where I had to get lots of supporting...
From Return 42;
How Does Pair Programming Work?
November last year, Stuart Wray, senior lecturer at the Royal School of Signals in Blandford, United Kingdom, submitted a paper called How does pair programming...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Worst That Could Happen
No doubt CS teachers in the USA are aware of the Julie Amero case, where the Connecticut substitute teacher was convicted on four counts of risk of injury to aThe...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-08-07
Archives names expert as new FOIA ombudsman It slipped past me when it was announced in June, but the US Federal Government has...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A review of
I learned programming on my own when I was twelve years old with a TRS-80 and Microsoft Basic. The documentation that came with the TRS-80 was fantastic. Alas,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Waves and Ad Effectiveness
Sands Research releases a new article, good details. Particularly useful here, a comparison to more traditional methods. What can measuring brain waves tell us...
From The Eponymous Pickle