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How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based …
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Correction and Updates on Role of APCS in Undergraduate Enrollment
The number of students taking the Advanced Placement Exam in Computer Science (APCS) is distressingly low. My earlier data were wrong, but even with these data...
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Lessons From Apollo
As we consider how to explain the necessity of long-term investment in science and technology research and development, as we teach a new generation of students...
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Advertainment
Real-world hyperlinks find their way into the most surprising places, and in the process become a staple of a Japanese mobile culture.
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Technological Garbage
Are Latin American countries prepared enough to deal with the environmental and health risks caused by techno-garbage?
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What's That You Say?
Science fiction has long told of a Universe thick with real-time speech-to-speech translation devices, and recent experiences in the land of the rising sun suggest...
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Campus Party Colombia
July 6 2009, is the starting date for the second edition of “campus party” which is one of the most important technological shows of the world.
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Touchdown, Japan
Science and sake in equal parts at the National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute orientation.
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Designing Effective Interfaces For Usable Privacy and Security
I often cringe when I hear highly technical engineers talk about people. I usually hear broad generalizations tossed about, like "people are lazy, that's why they...
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E-Commerce in Latin America
Short talk about the evolution and actual status of e-commerce in Latin America
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Nudging Computing Education
The nudges of libertarian paternalism have insights for computing education.
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The Fallacy of Rankings
The list of the world's fastest computers will soon be announced. As always, we can expect the latest announcement to garner interest among the technological community...
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Latin America & Internet Security
How are our countries dealing with internet security issues?
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Cornell Economist Says Disaster Relief Workers Need AI Tools
Economist Christopher B. Barrett has been developing decision trees to help CARE relief workers analyze conditions in disaster zones. They need more efficient...
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More on Bridging the Gap Between Ecologists and Computer Scientists
At the First Conference on Computational Sustainability, Cornell's Evan Cooch, evolutionary ecologist, describes what happened in the past when he asked an engineer...
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Enviro Scientists Call on Comp Scientists to Bridge Gap in Solving NP-Hard Problems
Environmental scientists are unaware of advances in computational complexity and have been limiting problems they tackle, but they are hopeful as result of First...
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Matching Digital Photos to Identify Wildlife
Dutch Scientists create digital "collective intelligence" system to compare photos of animals' markings.
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Low-Cost Sensors Help People Turn 'Green'
University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon researchers are building sensors for phones and homes that give people feedback on their habits and encourage them...
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Framing the Right Problem For Water Fowl
U.S. Geological Survey scientists describe their work, outlining complexity.
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HPC: Making a Small Fortune
There is an old joke in the high-performance computing community that begins with a question, “How do you make a small fortune in high-performance computing?” There...
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