Massive Scale Data Mining For Education
With the increased use of computers in education, there will be a big new opportunity for computers to learn to help students learn.
Greg Linden
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Computers Are a Tool, Even in Education
Computers in schools should be making teachers' jobs easier, making it easier for students to learn, and increasing student achievement in measurable ways. Little else matters.
Old Geeks Never Die, They Just Get Grumpier
With age comes wisdom, or so they say. But when we geeks age, does it make us wiser or just grumpier?
Research in the Wild: Making Research Work in Industry
What is the best way to organize researchers into a company? An independent research lab? Mixing researchers in with product teams? Or not hiring researchers at all?
The War Against Spam; and More
Greg Linden asks if spammers have been defeated; Michael Bernstein discusses Clay Shirky's keynote speech at CSCW 2010; and Erika S. Poole writes about how the digital world can help parents cope with the death of a child.
Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.
The Chaos of the Internet as an External Brain; and More
From the early days of computers, people have speculated that computers would be used to supplement our intelligence. In the last decades, most of the work toward this dream has been in the form of trying to build artificial intelligence.
How Many Computers Will You Own?
How many computing devices will you have in ten years? Two? Six? Just one?
What Security Advice Should We Give?
Are people being rational when they ignore the security advice we give them? If so, what advice should we give them that they would not ignore?
A decade ago, e-mail spam was a severe problem. Now, e-mail spam is barely noticeable. After years of battles between spam filters and spammers creating new tricks to evade those filters, have the spammers lost?
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