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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Stereotypes That Refuse To Die
One of the areas on Facebook is called Trust Me I’m an “Engineer.” where humorous (for sometimes interesting definitions of humorous) images are posted. I don’t...
From Wild WebMink
Be Still With Me
Imogen Heap’s new song is probably the best so far on her gradually-emerging new album. Personally I’m ready for some “still” time.
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What caught my attention recently: The latest Google and Microsoft earnings show damage from a tech disruption, a shift to mobile that is impacting both badly[1]...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Insurance
This was once a real insurance product. Squid Insurance Marketing was the low-end offering at Astonish, complete with the tagline "Nothing Kills a Squid!" As...
From Putting People First
EPIC conference videos online
Most of the videos of this week’s EPIC Conference, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design [SCAD], are now online. EPIC, which stands for Ethnographic...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Passing the CU-WISE Torch
I'm one of the original founders of our Carleton University Women in Science and Engineering group. I stayed on the exec for a few years, stepping down only when...
From Putting People First
Lugano conference on digital experiences in smart cities
On Saturday 27 October, the Italian-speaking Swiss city of Lugano will host the 4th edition of the UXconference. The 2012 edition of the conference, which is organised...
From Schneier on Security
Stoking Cyber Fears
A lot of the debate around President Obama's cubsersecurity initiative center on how much of a burden it would be on industry, and how that should be financed.originally...
From Wild WebMink
Patent Troll Research Round-Up
Academic research about the problem of patent trolls has finally started to flow, and the findings are just as grim as all our instincts suggested. In my article...
From Putting People First
Slow HCI
The latest issue of Interfaces, the quarterly magazine of the Interaction Specialist Group of the BCS, the British chartered institute for IT, is devoted to Slow...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Using Exploratory learning for CS
This year I am making some changes in my introductory Computer Science class. Last year, I added Scratch and BYOB as lead-ins to my standard programming language...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
I Can Figure It Out Myself
I set out for my daily walk today hoping for inner peace and calm. What I found was a bit of inspiration. About a half mile into my walk I saw a little girl, could...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of How Bitcoin Is Actually Used
"Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph," by Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir: Abstract. The Bitcoin scheme is a rare example of a large scale global...
From Putting People First
Spacebrew, an open source toolkit for creating interactive spaces
Spacebrew is a new software – currently in beta release – for prototyping and producing interactive spaces. It was developed by the Interaction Lab at the Rockwell...
From Putting People First
Daniel Bor: ‘It’s just a gut instinct, but Blink got it wrong’
Daniel Bor is a cognitive neuro-scientist at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, and author of The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science...
From Putting People First
The Club of Helsinki – co-creation of urban development projects
The Club of Helsinki is a non-profit organization that offer possibilities to co-create urban development projects that prototype new integrated and sustainable...
From Putting People First
Transforming Bodies & Lifestyles: Insights into Inspiring Behavior Change
Transforming Bodies & Lifestyles: Insights into Inspiring Behavior Change Institute For The Future 2012 Inspiring people to change their behaviors in order to become...
From Putting People First
Wearable tech pioneers aim to track and augment our lives
Wearable technology is still in its infancy but as it increasingly taps into a desire to have the functionality of technology without the intrusiveness. A BBC article...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson