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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 My Biased Coin
Harvard E-Mail, Again
Yesterday was the long-awaited faculty meeting after the news that Harvard had examined the e-mail (metadata) of the Resident Deans looking for a leak of what was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Basics of Bitcoin
A NewYorker overview of what Bitcoin is and where its future might be. A P2P open source digital currency, they say, but what does that really mean? It has been...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With Projects
When teaching beginners how to program there are a whole cast of variables to deal with. One of them is finding learning projects or exercises that are complicated...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Upcoming Eye Surgery
I'll be out of commission for the next little while as I embark on my second of two eye surgeries. I have a corneal disease called keratoconus, which makes the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Infographics, Socially
I have written before that infographics are a poor way to provide data to people. It can often be used to twist information to your purposes, using slick graphics...
From Schneier on Security
IT for Oppression
Whether it's Syria using Facebook to help identify and arrest dissidents or China using its "Great Firewall" to limit access to international news throughout the...
From Putting People First
EthnographyMatters on combining qualitative and quantitative data (edition by Nicolas Nova)
The April 2013 EthnographyMatters edition is edited by Nicolas Nova, consultant and researcher at the Near Future Laboratory, and is about combining qualitative...
From Putting People First
SAP sponsors the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)
SAP has become the first major sponsor of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF), writes Gerd Waloszek on the SAP Design Guild blog. The HCI encyclopedia, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Viz of the Day
Tableau Software has a feature called visualization of the day. It shows examples of Tableau data visualization. Good to look for inspiration and ideas for interactive...
From Writing
Some ground rules for debate
For some reason, you've gotten into a debate with me about philosophy, software, psychology, history, life, the universe, and everything. Awesome!Before we go any...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Future of Advertising
Lots of interesting bits here on the topic. Just brought to my attention by Herb Sorensen. " ... Since its inception in 2008, the WFoA has become the intellectual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cautions About Augmented Reality
Pictoral look at the future of Augmented Reality in Business Insider. Disturbing view, especially of the dehumanizing aspect of wearing devices, and having them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shrinking Workforces
In the HBR: I hear this from lots of former colleagues. Leaner, and sometimes regrettably meaner. More outsourcing, but is consulting supported more than before...
From Putting People First
Michele Visciola of Experientia speaking on ‘Town_Re-coding’
On 11 April, Experientia president Michele Visciola will be a guest speaker at the Town Re-coding seminar (pdf), a Turin event to discuss perceptions, tensions...
From Schneier on Security
Narratives of Secrecy
How people talked about the secrecy surrounding the Manhattan project.
From Putting People First
An uplifting experience – the ethnography of the elevator user experience
Rebekah Rousi, a researcher of user psychology and PhD candidate of Cognitive Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, describes on EthnographyMatters how...
From Putting People First
Why data without soul is meaningless
As we move towards a quantified society, one shaped by data, we start to dismiss things that are unquantified, writes Om Malik of GigaOm. Empathy, emotion and storytelling...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education and New York City
I’ve been following CS education events in my old home of New York City from a distance with great interest. As the song says if you can make it in New York you...
From Putting People First
The hidden biases in Big Data
Data and data sets are not objective, writes Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, in the Harvard Business Review. They are creations of human...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog