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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why is the free market letting us down?
I often lean on the right politically. The idea that the free market will work is compelling. Free markets may be good at generating some form of wealth, but as...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 15
FOSDEM Video RecordingsListing of videos of all the advertised talks at FOSDEM for the last few years.New Paper Shredder Actually Recycles Paper at the OfficeThis...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to December 13
Alpinisms: School Of Seven BellsCaptivating music in a style I can't quite pin down. Was sucked in by an interview and the track "Half Asleep" which is a free download...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Real World Learning in a Web Design Class
I started teaching web design to students when the World Wide Web started to explode in 1994. Back then my students used HTML and notepad to create the school's...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 12
Linux - Stop holding our kids backThe teacher in this case has the tone of someone who tried religion once at college and now is an ardent atheist. Sadly, the campaigner...
From Wild WebMink
Celebrating Anniversaries
This has been a time for anniversaries. It's been 25 years since Richard Stallman started the GNU Project, 40 years since Doug Engelbart demonstrated the future...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to December 10
HearFromYourMPBritish? Sign up to hear from your MP about local issues, and to discuss them with other constituents.Did Coldplay copy Joe Satriani?Whether theyColdplay...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
New Math and Science Study Shows Rising Elementary Math Scores, Significant Challenges
Yesterday the National Center for Education Statistics released the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). This study assesses math...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Students Do Not Take APCS
I recently heard a statistic that 30% of the students who take AP Computer Science go on to major in computer science in college. While this may sound like an...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 9
Happy The Man: The Guggenheim GrottoNew Guggenheim Grotto album, sounds pretty good (only on Amazon US so far, sorry everyone else).Dr. Dobb's - What's Open About...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to December 5
The End Of Online AnonymityI've always said that anonymity is a privilege to be justified and treasured and Sarah Perez seems to support that view her in her discussion...
From insideHPC
Time to Learn Functional
Credit to Multicoreinfo.com for the pointer to this article by Michael Swaine for Dr. Dobb’s that examines functional programming’s merits (and demerits) Michael...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Native XML Databases: Have They Taken the World Over Yet?
Some years ago, the database research community jumped into XML. Finally, something new to work on! For about 5 years now, I have seen predictions that the XMLXQuery...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Homeland Security Committee Looks to 2009
The majority staff of the House Homeland Security Committee hosted a workshop December 3 on "Constitutional Protections in Homeland Security." A copy of the agenda...
From Putting People First
Getting Real About Agile Design
Very good and long article by Cennydd Bowles on the relation between design and agile development. “For many designers, Agile is already a fact of life (and for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Couponing in the Digital Age
Good overview piece on digital couponing via NielsenWire. Particularly interesting mention of using cellphones and other devices for coupon acquisition, management...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Department of Defense S&T video
This new DoD S&T video is absolutely worth 4:56 of your time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lLDNosedHk It’s inspirational. – Ed Lazowska
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to November 30
Europe backs mobile roaming capThis is something that is so clearly necessary, both for consumer protection from price gouging and for development of the technology...
From CSDiary