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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
Five experts on what comes after the touchscreen
Post-touch hasn’t found the killer use case that the mouse found with GUIs and the touchscreen found with mobile web browsing and apps — but it’s not for lack of...
From Putting People First
Can ethnography save enterprise social networking?
In this guest post for Ethnography Matters, Mike Gotta from Cisco Systems, makes the case for bringing the human back into enterprise software design and development...
From Putting People First
The workplace of 2025 will be wherever you want it
Sampling views from a panel representing Imperial College London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Washington, other international...
From Putting People First
Book: Communicating the User Experience
Communicating the User Experience: A Practical Guide for Creating Useful UX Documentation by Richard Caddick and Steve Cable Wiley 2011, 352 pages ISBN 978-1119971108...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gait Recognition Revisited
In New Scientist: When we explored a number of methods of identity recognition, the one that surprised me then was the ability to recognize people by the pattern...
From Wild WebMink
Surprising Sponsor
You’ll never guess who’s bankrolling open source. In my column in InfoWorld this week, I look at an initiative to get some crucial software written for America’s...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2012 Symposium: Oct 4-5 in Cambridge, MA
It’s the event you’ve been waiting for: the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval! HCIR 2012 will take place October 4th and 5th...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Smart Systems
In PEW Internet on the future of smart systems. Read all of it. " ... By 2020, experts think tech-enhanced homes, appliances, and utilities will spread, but many...
From Schneier on Security
Accountable Algorithms
Ed Felten has two posts about accountable algorithms. Good stuff.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What period is it? Let me check my phone
The Center for Advanced Technology is a great program at Lakewood Senior High School in Florida. Students in this program learn and use technology in interesting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extra Sensory Shoppers
A short piece on 'extra sensory' means of understanding the consumer. Along the way some new mentions of work being done I had not seen before that is worth aVia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technologies to Dominate Retail
Kevin Judd sends this notice of a one day conference on Technology in retail. Combining speakers from a number of companies. On September 24 in Cambridge Mass...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics as a Database Operation
An interesting example of how a mid market company can gather and integrate and leverage data. here transforming the way that it does business. It seems like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Expands
Kroger experimenting with more general merchandise, like clothing, in Ohio. A natural,higher profitability approach for the grocery retailer.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
To Be Published: Understanding the Power of Augmented Reality for Learning
I'm pleased to say that my work on cognitive theories and augmented reality is finally going to be published. 'Understanding the Power of Augmented Reality for2012...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The 25 “Coolest” Computer Networking Research Projects
Network World is out with a list of the 25 “coolest” computer networking research projects: University labs, fueled with millions of dollars in funding and some...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing!
Do you know a digital diva, web chix, or coder girl? Encourage her to apply for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing! It is time to start those applications...
From Computational Complexity
Poset Games are PSPACE-complete
Consider the following game on a poset, each player takes turns picking an element x of a finite poset and removes all y ≥ x. First one to empty the poset wins....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Secure and Trustworthy Computing Solicitation Issued
The National Science Foundation (NSF) last week issued a new solicitation for its Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) program: Cyberspace — a global “virtual”...
From Schneier on Security