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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
Report calls for radical redesign of cities to cope with population growth
The Megacities on the Move report says authorities must start planning their transport infrastructure now for a future when two thirds of the world’s population...
From Putting People First
Creating informal learning environments
In the field of exhibition design, the quality of User Experience makes the difference between success and failure. When designing exhibits for museums or science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fingerprinting Devices on the Web
In the WSJ: A race to build device fingerprinting methods on the Web: " ... Advertisers no longer want to just buy ads ... . They want to buy access to specific...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lessons fron the Web 2.0 Summit
Paul Gillin has a nice blog blog post on learnings from the recent Web 2.0 summit. Paul does a good job in summarizing useful concepts from meetings that we can't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junaio Browser
A press release providing much more information on the Junaio augmented reality browser. Am exploring on the IPhone, so far this is a good UI update for theiron...
From Schneier on Security
Risk Reduction Strategies on Social Networking Sites
By two teenagers: Mikalah uses Facebook but when she goes to log out, she deactivates her Facebook account. She knows that this doesn
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consensus for Research Data
This is of considerable interest to retail and marketing. In CACM:This past year was a census year in the U.S. We responded to arguably the most long-lived and...
From Putting People First
Announcing the IxDA Interaction Awards
Today, the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) announced the launch of the IxDA Interaction Awards, a first-of-its-kind awards program dedicated to celebrating...
From Putting People First
Reflecting on the book
I just finished reading Living with Complexity by Donald A. Norman (previously announced here) and consider an important contribution to our field, and this for...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-12-01
Community Bylaws – The Document Foundation LibreOffice hosts The Document Foundation have put together a set of bylaws for their new open-by-rule community and...
From Schneier on Security
Software Monoculture
In 2003, a group of security experts -- myself included -- published a paper saying that 1) software monocultures are dangerous and 2) Microsoft, being the largest...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do We Need A New Teaching Programming Language
I saw some discussions lately about the need or lack of need for new programming languages. In once case especially for teaching programming. In general I think...
From Putting People First
Book: Designing Media by Bill Moggridge
Designing Media, the new book by Bill Moggridge, director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and founder of IDEO, is now available in hard copy, as a DVD...
From Putting People First
U DriveIT
Norden, the Nordic Innovation Center, has published the results of a research project between Denmark, Norway and Iceland, that explored the increasingly strong...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spatial Analysis Techniques in R
What looks to be a good course in using the R statistics language for spatial analysis problems. " ... Topics covered include point pattern analysis, identifying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curation Nation
In Adage: On the concept of a curation nation. It has been that way for a long time, the best things are passed along to me by readers. My readership appreciates...
From Michael Nielsen
How hard is space travel, in principle?
Our Earth-based intuitions about the difficulty of travelling long distances break down badly in space. It’s tempting to think that just because Saturn, say, is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Needlebase: Data Gathering and Visualzation Tool
In Readwriteweb: " ... Needlebase, a great new point-and-click tool for extracting, sorting and visualizing data from across pages around the web. I've been using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Alerts
Have not followed the Google small business blog very closely, but recently there is an interesting article: Now Available with Google Apps: Google Alerts. " ....
From The Eponymous Pickle