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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
The Buying Brain
The Buying Brain: Secrets for Selling to the Subconscious Mind, by A. K. Pradeep, Pradeep is the CEO of probably the best known neuromarketing companyNeurofocus...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Paul Debevec wins Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award
Congratulations to Paul Debevec — Research Associate Professor & Associate Director of Graphics Research at the University of Southern California’s Institute for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making a Robot Dance
In the IEEE Spectrum. An insightful article about how to make a humanoid robot dance. I am not sure the goal of any robot should be to make a robot more human...
From Putting People First
IDEA 2010, an information architecture conference
Last month the Information Architecture Institute, a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture, held its yearly...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Video Gamer: A Piece of the K-12 Pipeline
I traveled up the coast of North Carolina to a town called New Bern and had an opportunity to attend the North Carolina Art Education Association Professional Development...
From Wild WebMink
? Community Escrow
I’ve written previously about the freedom to leave, but there’s another value delivered by the liberties open source provides, one which it would even be worth...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How do search engines handle special characters? Should you care?
Matt Cutts is Google’s search engine optimization expert. He runs a great YouTube channel called Google Webmaster Central.
From Computational Complexity
The revolution will be DVRed
(There are TWO theory day events in NY this semester: Thu Nov 11. and Fri Nov 12.) BILL: Will you be going to the RALLY TO RESTORE SANITY AND/OR FEAR? (Seehere...
From Schneier on Security
Dan Geer on "Cybersecurity and National Policy"
Worth reading: Those with either an engineering or management background are aware that one cannot optimize everything at once
From Putting People First
Lost the remote? Another reason to use an app
TV viewing habits are changing as more Internet and on-demand content
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching real-world programming
The title of this post is borrowed from an article at the MIT (original article at Teaching real-world programming) about a programming course at MIT that uses...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic study on impact of social tools on sales
An in-depth ethnographic study of the social media habits of Blacksburg, VA, the first internet wired town in the world, demonstrates the power of consumer endorsed...
From Putting People First
Smartphone form factor
In a previous TechRepublic column, Debra Littlejohn Shinder stated that hardware design and features are some of the many criteria to consider when deciding which...
From Putting People First
Exposing the magic of design
Jon Kolko has published on UXMatters a sample chapter of his forthcoming book, Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner
From Putting People First
Storytelling for UX, an interview with Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks
Daniel Szuc spoke with Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks about their new book Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design. “Daniel: Why...
From Putting People First
India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets
Ravi Nessman reports from Mumbai, India. “The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along...
From Putting People First
The future of wired retail
In a 2010 survey of U.S. consumers conducted by Buzzback Market Research, findings showed that 88 percent of shoppers are more likely to choose a company that gives...
From Putting People First
How the shift to mobile is revolutionising online news design
At the recent European Information Architecture Summit in Paris, Oliver Reichenstein, who has done several web design projects for Swiss newspapers, talked about...
From Putting People First
Reflections on iPad usability
The former design director for the New York Times has written a blog post giving his thoughts on magazine apps for the iPad (something he clearly gets asked about...
From The Eponymous Pickle