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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
MedLove, Berlin, 23rd of November
Post by Experientia UX researcher Anna Wojnarowska: The first MedLove conference, a UX and healthcare summit sponsored by Razorfish, took place this Friday in Berlin...
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Book: The Human Face of Big Data
Big Data is the subject of a forthcoming glossy photo book, a smartphone application for personal data analysis and comparison, and an interactive version of the...
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Learning and the emerging science of behavior change, aka ‘nudging’
The language of learning today is full of references to “softness” and “openness.” Software, soft skills, soft performance, and the softening up of school knowledge...
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Nearly all videos of UX Week 2012 now online
Our friends of Adaptive Path have uploaded (nearly) all videos of UX Week 2012, the premier user experience design conference that took place in August in San Francisco...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Holding First Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace PI Meeting This Week; Tuesday Afternoon Webcast to Discuss Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategy
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is holding this week a first-ever Principal Investigators’ meeting for its Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program...
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Another batch of NEXT Service Design videos
The NEXT Service Design videos keep on coming, but very slowly. Here are another three: A Facebook for Things – Turning Physical Products into Digital Information...
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Why do the user interfaces of Smart TVs suck?
Driven by marketing tick lists and a seeming disregard for how ordinary people will use their products, manufacturers have simply chucked more and more features...
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New York Times interviews Jim Wicks, Design Chief at Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility, which Google acquired in May, recently released new smartphones and reintroduced itself as the “New Motorola.” But what does that even mean?...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Resources for Testing Game Story Ideas
I will soon be trying out simple nonlinear narrative ideas for my thesis research, and wanted to find (freely available) tools that will make doing so much easier...
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Unpacking cars: doing anthropology at Intel (paper by Genevieve Bell)
The fall 2011 issue of AnthroNotes (pdf) starts off with an article by Genevieve Bell, senior cultural anthropologist at Intel. She describes her latest research...
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Technology is useless if it doesn’t address a human need
Facebook is great for checking out photos of your exes and all, but for social innovators working in the developing world, there’s no point to new technologies...
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Expereal, free iPhone app, based on Daniel Kahneman’s book ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’
Expereal is a free iPhone app developed to help people better understand themselves, to feel even more connected to the world, and to, hopefully, make more informed...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers Ebook 50% Off and DRM-Free
Today only, O'Reilly is offering 50% off all its ebooks, including Liars and Outliers. This is probably the cheapest you'll find a DRM-free copy of the book.
From Schneier on Security
Homeland Security Essay Contest
The Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security is running its sixth annual essay competition. There are cash prizes. (Info on previous...
From Computational Complexity
Inverse Closure Problem
In the undergraduate complexity course we spend some time on closure properties such as (1) REG closed under UNION, INTER, COMP and (2) R.E. closed under UNION...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 November 2012
Last week was Thanksgiving in the US and for me it meant a lot of good food and family time. Among other things my son and I built a new dock. It’s the kind ofThe...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Thanks For Sharing
An exchange of expertise and gifts src William Bradford was the first civic authority to proclaim a day of Thanksgiving in North America. He became governor of...
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On Productivity in Grad School
I was recently invited to be on a panel about being productive in graduate school. This invitation surprised and flattered me. I do not consider myself to be...
From My Biased Coin
Assessing Computer Scientists
My colleague and frequent co-author John Byers knows that I can spend up to several hours a day actively worrying about my ranking as a computer scientist. While...
From The Eponymous Pickle