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We examined this idea broadly years ago, could the concept of Orgami be used to deliver certain forms of packaging? The concept here is very different, but with similar design inspiration: In IEEE Spectrum:" ... Harvard University…
Swarming. Hearing lots about agile lately. Heard about agile development from Sogeti last night. Always thought it was a good idea, but needs to be executed well or it leads to chaos.
Another recent confluence of posts on similar topics (list below) has caused me to spend some time thinking. And sooner or later I have to think though my fingers and get my thoughts out in a blog post. So here goes. Problem …
Guest post by Janos Simon A group of researchers (Arjen Lenstra and collaborators from EPFL Lausanne and James Hughes from Palo Alto) published a study, Ron was wrong Whit is right, of new vulnerabilities of cryptosystems.story…
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University published a substantial new report from the Youth and Media project: “Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality” by Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi…
As technology has advanced, the importance of how humans interact with systems, machines, and each other, have also advanced into a fusion of disciplines, coalescing under the banner of “user experience.” And though “experience”…
I've recently updated my teaching philosophy. I tried to make it to-the-point and backed by research. I could have written a lot more, but think I captured the key aspects of how I teach. Would love any feedback you mightThough…
Just introduced to the new BOI Solutions. Have worked with their people for years. A Revolutionary approach to multimedia collaboration.... More to follow.
A rare public peek into P&G's innovation center by Jared Newman. Done for the introduction of Tide Pods.Fifty Cameras, a Fake Home and Virtual Reality: How Tide
We can now conclusively link Stuxnet to the centrifuge structure at the Natanz nuclear enrichment lab in Iran. Watch this new video presentation from Ralph Langner, the researcher who has done the most work on Stuxnet. It's…
From ComputerWorld: A curious way to get to flash on your iPad, and run things like Word. Could be very useful. Trying now.
From Lauren Carlson. This is an interesting and novel gamification example, of the class of applications where you are trying to get people to do tedious tasks. Gamifying support agent work: ".. Gamification is slowly but surely…
All web designers use perceptual persuasion in their designs, but without knowing they do. Interaction designer Wouter Middendorf delves into the matter: “Persuasive design is hot. Especially on the web as designers found out…
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
The conference that shares its namesake with this blog has announced their accepted papers. The 27th Conference on Computational Complexity itself will be held in Porto, Portugal June 26-29. If you go, stop by England on theCambridge…
Today’s issue of Nature
According to a report by Juniper, mobile malware is increasing dramatically.
In 2011, we saw unprecedented growth of mobile malware attacks with a 155 percent increase across all platforms. Most noteworthy was the dramatic growth…Television is breaking free of old paradigms and constraints. Consumers have no shortage of places to look for the content they want
The Imagine Cup series of competitions has a new round of deadlines coming up over the next two weeks. The good news is that the barriers to entry in most of these is low enough that students still have time to get their actFor…
The rumor has been out there for years, that Google was developing a glasses-style interface for interaction and search. We examined the general idea for maintenance applications, which was offered by a couple of vendors inWill…
As someone who is interested in information security and CERIAS (or why else would you be reading this blog?), you are undoubtedly already aware of the great need for education and research in information/cyber security areas…
Motivation often comes from the most unlikely of sources. My mother recently waxed nostalgic about life before computers. She said, "Life was much simpler then. The internet brings the evils of the world into our homes and shows…
Useful thoughts. Tell a good story, get it to the right people, then provide the background as needed"Scientists frequently tell stories using visualizations of scientific data, in the process of disseminating findings to peers…
(In honor of President's day which was two days ago.)
On Presidents Day last year I had my classes fill out a form saying who they thought was the best, second best, third best, and worst president. I gave them a list and…
I have had a number of interactions with Empower. They acquired retail data analytics specialists MIG last year. Now they have created the Empower Group by the acquisition of Powerhouse Factories to create services in creative…
An extended article on how P&G plans to address cost cutting. A periodic thing at all large enterprises.
For the second year in a row,