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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
Indian OS
India is writing its own operating system so it doesn't have to rely on Western technology: India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) wants...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adverts in Your Head
A fairly good article in CNN on Neuromarketing. They quote Roger Dooley: "the biggest development that I hope we see is some solid research validating neuromarketing...
From Putting People First
Design for mobile and for public health
Two new articles in UX Magazine: Design for mobile by Juan Sanchez The Design For Mobile conference, which took place September 20-24 in Chicago, brought together...
From Putting People First
Innovative ways of appropriating mobile telephony in Africa
The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have jointly published the report entitled “Innovative ways...
From Putting People First
UX design in open source development
Olli Savolainen has published a thesis entitled “User experience design in open source development: Approaches to usability work in the Moodle community” at the...
From Putting People First
Device Design Day videos
Kicker Studio organised on 20 August a Device Design Day in San Francisco, exploring the design of the next generation of products. Most videos are now online:...
From Putting People First
What the developing world can teach us about technology
“Creativity, Cost-Cutting & Keeping it Simple: what the Developing World can teach us about Technology” is the long title of a short feature story by Anna Leach...
From Putting People First
mobile + africa
A contingent of Stanford University d.school students recently returned from Kenya, where they spent two weeks working with Nokia Research Africa, and the University...
From Putting People First
US UX versus EU UX: What
In response to questions from Amy Knox regarding US user experience and European user experience, S
From Putting People First
Project explores human factor in
Boston University is participating in a $2 million National Science Foundation-funded Smart Neighborhood project that seeks to make a Boston neighborhood more energy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Kamp for Educators
OK so you know I am a big fan of Kodu. Perhaps you read about the Kodu workshop I did for students last weekend. Perhaps you just heard about Kodu from some random...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau 6 Includes What-If Modeling
The newest verison of Tableau 6, now in beta, has the ability to create variables for use in your analysis. We call these parameters, and they open up new possibilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stealing Your Reality
Can your behavior on social netowrking sites be stolen and your 'reality' stolen? I know that reality can be augmented, even replaced by being made virtual, but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tragedy of the Commons
I looked up the concept of 'Tragedy of the Commons' concept recently to get additional historical information about the topic. . Found that the Wikipedia has....
From Schneier on Security
Picking a Single Voice out of a Crowd
Interesting new technology. Squarehead's new system is like bullet-time for sound. 325 microphones sit in a carbon-fiber disk above the stadium, and a wide-angle...
From Computational Complexity
How hard is this problem?- I ask this non-rhetorically
I recently saw the following puzzle: Which two numbers come at the end of this sequence? (That is, what are x and y?) 2,4,5,30,32,34,36,40,42,44,46,50,52,54...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-14
FLOSS Weekly 139: Alfresco It was a long session, but the conversation flowed between me, John Newton and Luis Sala of Alfresco and FLOSS Weekly anchor Randal Schwartz...
From Schneier on Security
Pen-and-Paper SQL Injection Attack Against Swedish Election
Some copycat imitated this xkcd cartoon in Sweden, hand writing an SQL injection attack onto a paper ballot. Even though the ballot was manually entered into the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson