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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
Apple's iMessage Encryption Seems to Be Pretty Good
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has complained (in a classified report, not publicly) that Apple's iMessage end-to-end encryption scheme can't be broken. On the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization and Story Telling
Gib Bassett sends along a link to an article compiled by Erica Driver. Data Visualization: Storytelling, Skills and Utility. Just this topic came up in a recent...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Best Posts of All Time
I love how much easier it is to see statistics on blog post views with the most recent Blogger redesign. While these (probably?) don't account for views by RSS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Wicked Problems
An interesting technical look at the application of 'wicked problem' techniques to social problems. We used the term to indicated difficult to formalize and solve...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Supercomputers are Sustainable
Last week, there were great advancements in Supercomputing as two new facilities were officially opened to the research community. This week, supercomputers are...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts on Bring Your Own Device to School
I seldom pay attention to the cars that students drive to school. I’m not that interested. Their technology on he other hand does interest me. I see all manner...
From Wild WebMink
Nokia Attacks
I remain bemused by Nokia’s attack on the prospects of the VP8 video format becoming an open standard. I can’t see what they & their shareholders get as a benefit...
From Schneier on Security
Skein Collision Competition
Xkcd had a Skein collision competition. The contest is over -- Carnegie Mellon University won, with 384 (out of 1024) mismatched bits -- but it's explained here...
From Putting People First
Free resources provided by the Interaction Design Foundation
A few days ago, I reported on the news that SAP has become the first major sponsor of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF). Today, Rikke Friis Dam, Co-Founder...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How P&G Presents Data to Decision Makers
In the HBR: This effort started long ago as a method to deliver data and models to executives, and has evolved much more broadly for many employees. And has finally...
From My Biased Coin
Upcoming Events
I've been asked to post for some upcoming events. The Simons Institute will have a multi-day symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing May 29-31, just before...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Collaboration for Reliable Data
Very true: In the end it is all about the decision processes themselves, equally important to the correctness of the data that drives them. Collaboration drives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Designers Need to Know About Strategy
Good general advice: I think there is more 'magic' in design driven organizations, thus strategy is even more important than in engineering/quant driven. Good...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
She++ Is a Winner
Yesterday evening, I saw She++, one of the most amazing documentary videos. Two of my students, Ellora Israni and Ayna Agarwal, produced this documentary on young...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disappearing Messages
In MIT Technology Review: The increasing use of messages that will expire, self destruct and just go away. When I first saw evidence, I wondered how much consumer...
From Putting People First
Steamrolled by Big Data
“Some problems do genuinely lend themselves to Big Data solutions,” writes Gary Marcus in The New Yorker. “But not every problem fits those criteria; unpredictability...
From Putting People First
Gestural, Wearable, Neural – the new pillars of interaction design
This is an exciting time to be a digital designer, as the future of digital interaction is all around us, writes Nev Fordyce, reflecting on his SxSW experience....
From Computational Complexity
Gary Miller to Receive the Knuth Prize
The 2013 Knuth Prize will be awarded to Gary Miller at STOC (ACM Press Release). The Knuth prize is now given yearly for outstanding contributions to the foundations...
From Putting People First