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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Risk of inflight WiFi
Security guru Bruce Schneier suggests that the recent bomb plots could mean the end of in-flight Wifi. His blog can be very interesting in security topics.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surprising the User
Certainly in a traditional sense the user interface should not surprise the user? But here is a refreshing contrary opinion.
From Schneier on Security
Young Man in "Old Man" Mask Boards Plane in Hong Kong
It's kind of an amazing story. A young Asian man used a rubber mask to disguise himself as an old Caucasian man and, with a passport photo that matched his disguise...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Kinect
It took me a whole two days after launch to finally get it, but I now not only have a Kinect but my first Xbox console. After playing an evening with my husband...
From Schneier on Security
The End of In-Flight Wi-Fi?
Okay, now the terrorists have really affected me personally: they're forcing us to turn off airplane Wi-Fi. No, it's not that the Yemeni package bombs had a Wi...
From Apophenia
Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook
Sometimes, when I’m in the field, I find teens who have strategies for managing their online presence that are odd at first blush but make complete sense when you...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Greater Boston Chapter Has Great First Meeting
Massachusetts now has a local CSTA chapter! The first meeting of the Greater Boston CSTA chapter took place on October 23. Kelly Powers and Padmaja Bandaru, the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mr. Peanut Speaks
Via the GMA Smartbrief. This reminds me of our own work with the long silent Mr. Clean brand image. I was part of a team that made Mr Clean get a personality...
From Wild WebMink
? Links: Copyright Reform
Following the UK government’s announcement last week, I’ve posted a link collection related to copyright reform with commentary over on ComputerWorldUK today.
From Putting People First
Magitti: The future of location apps from PARC?
Bo Begole, principal scientist and manager of PARC‘s (formerly Xerox PARC) Ubiquitous Computing Area, showed Richard MacManus of ReadWriteWeb an app that brings...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 8 November 2010
Well we are really and truly into November now. Over the weekend we went back to Eastern Standard time in New Hampshire. The best thing about that is that for a...
From Wild WebMink
? Challenging Intrusion
EPIC – EPIC v. DHS (Suspension of Body Scanner Program) EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a US group) has challenged the US government over the new...
From Computational Complexity
The FOCS Experience
You can now watch videos of the recent FOCS talks online. Glencora, who I had the pleasure of meeting at the conference, has her favorites. If you watch any, check...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Face: Emotionally Effective Advertising
Now Reading: About Face: The Secrets of Emotionally Effective Advertising by Dan Hill. Notably in chapter 4 he talks about focusing on faces. This is a particularly useful...
From The Noisy Channel
The Element of Surprise
Surprise is not a word that user interface designers typically like to hear. Indeed, the principle of least surprise (also called the principle of least astonishment)...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Recruiting for My Computer Science Classes
As the budget woes continue in California, my thoughts are turning to recruiting. If a sufficient number of students do not sign-up for the two computer science...
From Wild WebMink
? Overhaul
Lessig Calls For WIPO To Lead Overhaul Of Copyright System Excellent move from a very wise and capable scholar – I have huge respect for him. He is completely right...
From Putting People First
The enabling city
Italian social researcher Chiara Camponeschi has written a fascinating Creative-Commons licensed publication, The Enabling City: Place-Based Creative Problem-Solving...
From Putting People First
Do people want location-based social networking?
Social networks want to know your location. But it
From The Eponymous Pickle