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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 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
Happy Birthday, Geek Style
Today is my birthday, something that is almost impossible to forget nowadays due to Facebook announcing it to my entire circle of online friends. ;-) Last year...
From insideHPC
Hyperion in
My friend Joab Jackson has written a good summary of LLNL’s Hyperion effort at Government Computer News One of the biggest challenges for managers of high-production...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Game-Changing Advances from Computing Research
In a November 4 post, we asked your help in identifying game-changing advances from computing research conducted in the past 20 years.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Chair Spafford Addresses Information Security Curricula
USACM Chair Eugene Spafford recently made predictions about information security curriculua in American higher education for CSO Magazine. You can read his comments...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup for November 22-26
Like London buses, you go for ages without seeing a story you want to link and then a load come along at once. Lifestreaming in ObamalandDan Farber notes how Obama's...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup for November 19-22
Vanguard Records And Sugar Hill Records: The Amazon New Music Digital Sampler This is a pretty good selection, all the tracks are good and likely to grow on me....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Final E-Verify Rule Announced for Contractors
Under a final rule published November 14, certain federal contractors and subcontractors will be required to use e-Verify, an electronic employment verification...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup for November 19
HDCP Sucks: New MacBooks Have HDCP, Gives iTunes Purchases Less Freedom "Because copyright protection is all about inconveniencing those who actually bought their...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Election 2008: E-Voting Poses Problems, But No Meltdown
While some federal races remain too close to call, or are headed to runoffs, the 2008 election is notable for the lack of a dispute over election machines that...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog