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Last week I attended the NYEdTech panel Artificial Intelligence for Learning: Is It Human Enough? — an attempt to assuage fears that one day frighteningly soon we will all be catering hand-and-foot to robot overlords (and also that robots are taking our jobs; unclear which elicit...

WWDC is Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference where they release new products and software updates. The keynote took place yesterday and there are some interesting new tools to experiment with in iOS development. Here are some things I found interesting:ARKit (Augmented Reality Kit):

Addressing gender and racial inequalities in STEM remains a social and economic pursuit. The majority of software engineers are white males. For example, at Google only one percent of its tech employees are black and only three percent are Hispanic. Oakland, one of the most diverse cities in the US, is implementing computer science as part of its curriculum in almost all of their public schools. Two years ago, there were only three public schools in Oakland offe...

Students seem to be finally coming around to the idea that t...

Researchers at CMU have developed a low cost method of turning just about any surface of any size into a touch sensitive device. Check out this overview:For more details, see the presentation at CHI 2017:

I’ve always had a keen interest in criminal justice, especially the methods detectives use to resolve crimes. I came upon an interesting story in which detectives used a now common device to resolve a murder case. The story revolves around a husband who claims a masked gunman entered his house, tied him up and shot his wife. He somehow managed to burn the gunman with a torch. However, detectives argue that his wife’s FitBit tells an entirely different story. Her FitBit was still taking ste...

According to this story from Wired, learning to code will be critical to getting a blue collar job.  If you have read why every millennial should learn some code, ...