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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
In Line Help
Google has added inline help in several of its services. More here. Slightly more convenient in the actual context of the problem. Intelligence always exists...
From Putting People First
Architects don’t listen to people
Christine Outram left the architecture profession because, she says, architects “don’t listen to people“. “The truth is, most of you don’t try. You rely on rules...
From Putting People First
The design of Copenhagen as a bicycle friendly city
In a ten part video series, Copenhagenize Design Co explores the top 10 design elements that make Copenhagen a bicycle-friendly city. In the embedded video above...
From Putting People First
Observations from an ethnography conference
Alexa Curtis recently attended EPIC, the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, a truly international gathering of ethnographers, anthropologists, strategists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graphics Chips for High Speed Visualization
In Technology Review: Work from MIT. Reviewing. See their public interface and demonstration which looks at Twitter data. Lets you look at a database of 11...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Educause Conference Reprise
Been a long time reader of Educause, even before the Web, as a newsletter. I see that the Cisco blog is writing about their conference. Some good posts recently...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Fiona Apple Wears a Squid as a Hat in New Video
Even I think this is weird.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSEA Legislation Timeline
There is so much momentum around the need for more computer science education in the country's schools, and many organizations in addition to CSTA are now working...
From Schneier on Security
D-Link Router Backdoor
Several versions of D-Link router firmware contain a backdoor. Just set the browser's user agent string to "xmlset_roodkcableoj28840ybtide," and you're in. (Hint...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dilbert in the Enterprise
In the HBR: We were heavy users of the Dilbert strip in the enterprise. They found their way into many slide shows. We thought that Scott Adams must have been...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Google in the Supply Chain
So true, worth looking at again:Why distributors should pay attention to Amazon, Google Amazon's B2B online channel Amazon Supply and Google's Google Shopping for...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Participation: 2014 Workshop on ACM History
The ACM History Committee (http://history.acm.org/) is sponsoring a two-day archiving workshop to help diffuse knowledge of professional archival practices into...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Deadline for Proposals for CSTA Conference Approaching
The deadline for session and workshop proposals for the 2014 CSTA conference on K-12 computer science education is November 15, 2013. In addition to 3-hour workshops...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying Cell Phones Through Sensor Imperfections
There seems to be a bunch of research into uniquely identifying cell phones through unique analog characteristics of the various embedded sensors. These sortsSlashdot...
From Putting People First
What behavioral economics is not
Essay: The Nature of the BEast: What Behavioral Economics Is Not 10/16/13 Matthew Darling, Saugato Datta, and Sendhil Mullainathan People are complex; they defy...
From Putting People First
An obstacle to patient-centered care: poor supply systems
It is widely acknowledged that patients and their families should be deeply involved in the design of and decisions about the health care that the former receive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Gym from IDEO
For a recent talk I had to research some of the work that IDEO did for P&G. I re-discovered this Bloomberg article about the design work that IDEO did to helpWayne...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Injecting Serious CS into a STEM Course
My school district has a STEM course in the high school that is meeting the district's computer science graduation requirement. That means that the STEM students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Topology Mapping for Analytics
Seems Vincent Granville has been thinking similarly lately. See his article and code in Data Science Central: A little known component that should be part of...
From Schneier on Security