If you use the popular professional social network LinkedIn you should go there right now and change your password to a new one, apparently some russian hackers got a few million passwords off their systems. Even if it’s a false alarm…

For my Science Sunday post this week I’d like to point out that June 23, 2012 marks 100 years since the birth of one of the most important scientists or mathematicians of the last or any other century. Alan Turing is the father of Computer Science, was pivotal to the defeat of the Nazis…

Baby robot learns first words from human teacher — tech — 15 June 2012 — New Scientist

I’m always glad to see more methods from research in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning getting coverage in the media and being explained with some level of detail. Take a…

Announcing the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance « Computing Education Blog
The future of education requires Computer Science. This is an…

The Consequences of Machine Intelligence — Moshe Y. Vardi — The Atlantic
I just started reading this, but it’s right along the lines of what I’m talking about with people being aware of how advancing…

If you are looking for a good example of the growing intersection of sustainability science and computer science I suggest taking a look at this fascinating description of the yearly winter invasion of Snowy Owl sitings. This year seems to be a big year but it is also undoubtedly the best…

Link: Discussion I got into on an article about automatically feeding your google+ content out to twitter and elsewhere

I’ve thought along these lines a bit, but it is an interesting idea to flesh out sometime…

Project: Evolution in Action | RocketHub
ScienceFund is like Kickstarter for Science! Pitch in money to help researchers collect and analysis data like this important work on analysing the spread of bacteria.

Interesting question here about tweeting sporting events: Should Live Tweeting Be Protected Like Broadcast Rights?
I think what is happening is that as technology moves forward the nature of Speech changes. Posting your thoughts on…