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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 Schneier on Security
Supreme Court Rules that GPS Tracking Requires a Warrant
The U.S Supreme Court has ruled that the police cannot attach a GPS tracking device to a car without a warrant.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Business Intelligence
I see that the Tableau Software blog has a piece on agile business development, and a recent Aberdeen Group study, asking the question: How Agile is your BI Solution...
From Michael Nielsen
On Elsevier
Elsevier is the world’s largest and most profitable scientific publisher, making a profit of 1.1 billion dollars on revenue of 3.2 billion dollars in 2009. Elsevier...
From Wild WebMink
Back To The Library?
There’s a big market for digital books, but I think they’re being sold badly.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Inviting ALL EDUCATORS to share their GREAT IDEAS
I love sharing by educators. It is one clear way that I believe we can all make education work better. So this announcement seemed like something I had to share...
From Putting People First
Inclusive Design
The Norwegian Design Council has published a new resource site about inclusive design, to inform and communicate how this approach can be used as a strategy for...
From Putting People First
The ethnography of robots
Heather Ford spoke with Stuart Geiger, PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Information, about his emerging ideas about the ethnography of robots.
From Putting People First
Does corporate ethnography suck?
In this first piece, Sam Ladner examines the different temporal conceptions of ethnographic fieldwork in industry and academia: “Academics frequently criticize...
From Schneier on Security
Research into an Information Security Risk Rating
The NSF is funding research on giving organizations information-security risk ratings, similar to credit ratings for individuals: Existing risk management techniques...
From Putting People First
State of Interaction Design: Diverging, by David Malouf
In anticipation of the upcoming IxDA Interaction12 Conference taking place in Dublin, Ireland February 1
From Putting People First
The shift from watching TV to experiencing TV
As more and more devices in your home get connected to the Internet, the user experience becomes increasingly important. The people at ReadWriteWeb announce that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
We Need A Wider Conversation on CS Education
There is an active conversation going on in the UK about computing education. From the Royal Society report (Shut down or restart?: The way forward for computing...
From Putting People First
The city as interface. Digital media and the urban public sphere
On 23 January 2012, Martijn de Waal defended his Ph.D. thesis
From Putting People First
The psychology of persuasion
All human societies are alive with the battle for influence. Every single day each of us is subject to innumerable persuasion attempts from corporations, interest...
From Putting People First
Business ethnography as a key strategy for international brands
Two interesting posts by Danish photographer and visual ethnographer Jacob Langvad Nilsson: Business ethnography as a key strategy for international brands When...
From Putting People First
Book: Applying Anthropology in the Global Village
Applying Anthropology in the Global Village Edited by Christina Wasson, Mary Odell Butler and Jacqueline Copeland-Carson Left Coast Press – November 2011 – 326...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maps in Data Visualization
Examples of the use of geographical maps in visualizations. Examination of the types is useful. " ... Maps are probably the biggest subsection of visualization...
From Computer Science Teachers Association