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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
Humanoid Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum: The rise of the humanoid robotics. This article has lots of links and examples of the humanoid robotic. Pictures, often frightening, as well....
From Putting People First
Depth of field: Film in design research
Timo Arnall and Einar Sneve Martinussen have published the article “Depth of field: discursive design research through film,” which discusses the role of film in...
From Putting People First
What is user experience design? Overview, tools and resources
Jacob Gube has published a guide on Smashing Magazine that aims to familiarize us with the professional discipline of UX design in the context of Web-based systems...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
NCWIT at Grace Hopper: Recruiting and Retaining Women
From the Communications of ACM blog:Research scientists Lecia Barker and Joanne Cohoon from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) gaveGrace...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Home Store
Amazon has opened a connected home store. This is a particularly good idea. It brings to mind work we did in setting up innovation center 'future homes'. It...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Offers Media Era Green Stamps
A novel and interesting approach, but does it engage to purchase?In Adage: P&G Program Will Offer Social-Media-Era 'Green Stamps'Deal With RecycleBank Gives Reward...
From Computational Complexity
Partha Niyogi (1967-2010)
University of Chicago Computer Science and Statistics Professor Partha Niyogi passed away on Friday after a battle with brain cancer. Partha worked in machine...
From Schneier on Security
Analyzing CAPTCHAs
New research: "Attacks and Design of Image Recognition CAPTCHAs." Abstract. We systematically study the design of image recognition CAPTCHAs (IRCs) in this paper...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Should Johnny Learn to Program?
Last week I shared a link on Facebook - Why Johnny Can't Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Open Courseware not Paywalled
There were rumors that the 2000 plus courses that MIT is offering free online would soon the charged for in some way. The rumors were denied this week. The remarkable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Generation of Consumer Loyalty
A good piece from the Harvard Business review voices on the next generation of location and consumer loyalty systems. Foursquare and beyond. "These experiments...
From Schneier on Security
Sky Marshals Flying First Class
I regularly say that security decisions are primarily made for non-security reasons. This article about the placement of sky marshals on airplanes is an excellent...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Farnam Jahanian to be CISE AD
Farnam Jahanian, Professor and Chair of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan, today was named the next Assistant Director for Computer and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Auctioning the Right to Use Laptops in Class
This is interesting. Ten years ago I had a conversation with a professor at Wharton who had been part of the redesign of some of the large classrooms in new buildings...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Corporate Fun
Techdirt writes on enforced corporate fun. Yes, happy workers are a good idea, but bizarre forced programs of humor and fun do not create happiness. Better to...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Real (ish) Life Computational Thinking
I went to see the most delightful talk this week, given by a graduate student. Like many academic talks, the speaker outlined a problem, described similar research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing: Exploring the Brain of the Consumer
Leon Zurawicki at UMass has a new book: Neuromarketing: Exploring the Brain of the Consumer. Professor Zurawicki joined us at a panel I led on neuromarketing last...
From Computational Complexity