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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 Computational Complexity
CS in the Sunshine State
As many of you've heard the Dean of Engineering at the University of Florida is planning deep cuts to the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Issues IGERT Solicitation Focused on Big Data
The National Science Foundation (NSF) last week issued a new solicitation under its
From Schneier on Security
Alan Turing Cryptanalysis Papers
GCHQ, the UK government's communications headquarters, has released two new -- well, 70 years old, but new to us -- cryptanalysis documents by Alan Turing. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 April 2012
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Data Visualization
From the Tableau Software Blog: On the future of data visualization. Well put, but in addition being able to interact with a visualization so it can fit both...
From Putting People First
Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users
Social media in particular has inexorably changed the world, driving openness and fear
From Putting People First
The flight from conversation
Sherry Turkle is a psychologist and professor at M.I.T., says we use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just...
From Putting People First
Rise of smart mobile services
Saar Gur, general partner at Charles River Ventures, discusses a new generation of smart mobile services, which provide user information in the background to make...
From Putting People First
From print to iPad: designing a reading experience
UX consultant Harry Brignull spoke at UX London 2012 about the design of The Week magazine
From Putting People First
Watching every click you make
Henry Alford, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, wonders when in the digital age, did privacy become a choice rather than a given. “When Facebook bought Instagram...
From Putting People First
Trust and the future of mobile money
Even within the technology community, 33% agreed with the below statement: “People will not trust the use of near-field communications devices and there will not...
From Putting People First
Internet must be a web not for the consumer, but for the citizen
In an editorial, The Guardian argues for an open web: “To protect the web’s founding principle is a matter of what Tim Berners-Lee would call citizen vigilance,...
From Putting People First
How to create products hand in hand with your customer
In his book “Wicked problems: Problems worth solving“, author John Kolko (founder and director of Austin Center for Design) argues that involving end users in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Mood Analysis
In GeekWire: Microsoft research proposes a search that uses mood, interests and education from Facebook activity. Non conscious and inferred information is always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classic Nintendo Games are Hard
NP-Hard to be exact. A specific form of problem that has many examples, the traveling salesman problem is known to be NP-Hard, that cannot be solved by a cadre...
From Putting People First
How user research informed IKEA
IKEA’s new Uppleva Smart TV-furniture unit was extensively shown at the Milan Design Week (which ends today), and on Core77 I will write more today about the interface...
From Putting People First
Behaviour change as value proposition
Chris Risdon, senior experience designer at Adaptive Path, looks at the explosion of smart products, which passively collect data about you and your specific behavior...
From Putting People First
Intersection of the physical and digital worlds
Austin Brown, UX designer at EffectiveUI, and his colleague Lindsay Moore wondered if there was a way to design better, by combinubg the best aspects of interaction...
From My Biased Coin
Things Worth Reading
A blog post describing the disturbing official version of the facts in the UC-Davis pepper spray incident. This should be a link to the actual report. A post...
From The Eponymous Pickle