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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Putting People First
Financial Times on EPIC conference
This week, business anthropologists from all over the world descended on the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference at London’s Royal Institution, the historic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation and Science Fiction
In the Atlantic: Inventors need to read more science fiction... " ... MIT researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner argue that the mind-bending worlds of authors...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How Bacteria Terraform a Squid
Fascinating: The bacterium Vibrio fischeri is a squid terraformer. Although it can live independently in seawater, it also colonises the body of the adorable Hawaiian...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Proposals due October 10 and December 10
The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program, which is a joint funding announcement between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Information Dashboard Design
Newly arrived to support a project: Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring by Stephen Few. I will review in the future. Their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Technology Strategy Template
Well thought out template for business technology strategy from Forrester Blogs. " .... What is it that almost every organization believes it needs, many organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ARD2 Augmented Reality
Recently brought to my attention this augmented reality delivery company: AR23D For advertising, sales and entertainment implementations. With development offices...
From Schneier on Security
Legally Justifying NSA Surveillance of Americans
Kit Walsh has an interesting blog post where he looks at how existing law can be used to justify the surveillance of Americans. Just to challenge ourselves, we'll...
From The Eponymous Pickle
National Identity By Smartphone
The curious observation that national identity varies by phone type. And the Asymco article and supporting data and visualizations.
From Schneier on Security
Google Knows Every Wi-Fi Password in the World
This article points out that as people are logging into Wi-Fi networks from their Android phones, and backing up those passwords along with everything else into...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Master the Mainframe 2013
Something different. Something from IBM. A teacher friend of mine forward the following announcement the other day. This contest is open to high school and university...
From My Biased Coin
Reviewing Bad
A pun title, relating to two quick things.First, I had the wonderful experience of getting to see (through a special deal set up by Harvard's faculty development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tibco Spotfire Acquires Extended Results
TIBCO Software Acquires Extended ResultsTIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced it has acquired Extended Results, a privately-held provider of mobile...
From Putting People First
How Public Design? A conference at Mindlab
MindLab, a cross-ministerial innovation unit in Denmark, hosted the seminar titled ‘How Public Design?’ for the second time on 2 and 3 September. This event gathered...
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Is design still about making things?
The future of design is a broad and slippery subject, one examined number of designers and critics at the recent Alvar Aalto Design Seminar in Jyväskylä, Finland...
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How robots can trick you into loving them
The secret to robots with better social skills? Exploiting human nature. Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor of BoingBoing.net, explores “how [designers can make]...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fewer Skeuomorphs
Brought to mind after loading the new flat design IOS7, which contains fewer skeuomorphs. Which are: Skeuomorphism A skeuomorph /ˈskjuːəmɔrf/ is a derivative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Millennials to Love and Share your Product
In Adage: " ... How to Get Millennials to Love and Share Your Product ... This Generation Wants to Be Engaged and Feel Good About Themselves ... "
From Putting People First
EthnographyMatters on the relationships between ethnography, fiction and design
This month’s theme of EthnographyMatters, edited by Nicolas Nova, is about the relationships between ethnography, speculative fiction and design. “In design circles...
From Putting People First