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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 Computational Complexity
How Can You Spend $150 Million?
Suppose you happen to have $150 million burning in your pocket that you want to use to help the theoretical computer science community ($150 million endowed will...
From Putting People First
Experience-based product design from Intel
The Day Zero event of the Intel Developer Forum started off with a presentation by Intel Fellow (and anthropologist) Genevieve Bell who is now also the head of...
From Putting People First
Extensive interview with user interface expert Bill Buxton
Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail has published an extensive, three-part interview that Chad Sapieha conducted with Microsoft Principal Researcher (and fellow...
From Putting People First
Cellphones, social networks make eavesdropping OK?
Not only are many unconcerned about strangers overhearing cellphone calls, we purposely broadcast our personal business on Facebook and Twitter. Sharon Jayson reports...
From Putting People First
Human-computer interaction for development
Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The Past, Present, and Future Research article by Melissa R. Ho (University of California, Berkeley), Thomas N. Smyth...
From Wild WebMink
? Community Types Essay
My essay on Community Types is now available in the Essays section of the site. It defines what I mean by terms like “co-developer” and “deployer-developer” when...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enabled Surfaces
We talked to several office furniture and space manufacturers and they were all looking at the possibility of making work surfaces, walls and even floors into interactive...
From Apophenia
Call for Papers: Digital Media & Learning Conference
Interested in Digital Media & Learning? Well, the 2011 Digital Media & Learning Conference is looking for some interesting talks, papers, and sessions. They’ve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Promise of Computers in Patient Care
In the latest Communications of the ACM: Computers in Patient Care: Why has progress been so slow?. A good readable article that includes a good narrative about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Brands a Wireless Plan
Wal-Mart has branded its own wireless plan. " ... it is introducing the first cell phone plan that uses the chain's own branding, further demonstrating its clout...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future Full Text Search
I see that the exciting temporal search engine 'Recorded Furture' has added full text search to its premium interface. A very nice ability, which makes you depend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hold the In-App Ads
As is obvious, mobile users do not like Ads with their mobile Apps. As in the early days of the Web until now, they will accept them for the right value trade off...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Social Commerce
Charlene Li, always interesting, on the what she calls the rise of social commerce. Which will be talked about at an upcoming meeting.
From Schneier on Security
Kenzero
Kenzero is a Japanese Trojan that collects and publishes users' porn surfing habits, and then blackmails them to remove the information.
From Apophenia
Musing on Child Naming and the Internet
I am of the age where many of my friends are having kids and so I’ve been exposed to more conversations about what to name one’s child than I ever could’ve imagined...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Travel Support (Guest Post by Paul Beame)
The program for the FOCS 2010 has an excellent set of selected papers and in addition has tutorials on Saturday by Ketan Mulmuley, Mihai Patrascu, and Tim Roughgarden...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 September 2010
Lots of good links this week. And if you are visiting via the web I wrote a rare week-end post on Object Oriented Programming.Design that I hope you
From Putting People First
A tech world that centers on the user
I live in the future & here’s how it works Why your world, work, and brain are being creatively disrupted by Nick Bolton Crown Business, Sept. 2010 304 pages Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Right vs Left Brain
At the enterprise a dozen years ago there was much talk about the difference between left and right brains, engineering and design minds. The specifics of the 'sided...
From Computer Science Teachers Association