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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 Putting People First
Capturing user research
Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, provides a good technical overview on the methods of capturing information during user research.
From Putting People First
Transformative UX
Markus Latzina, SAP AG, and Joerg Beringer, SAP Labs, LLC. have republished an article they have written for Interactions Magazine on the Transformative User Experience...
From Putting People First
Book: Cross-Cultural Technology Design
Cross-Cultural Technology Design Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology for Local Users by Huatong Sun Hardback, 352 pages Oxford University Press – Feb 2012 [Amazon...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2012 US Imagine Cup People
The voting is now open for the US Imagine Cup People
From Schneier on Security
Lost Smart Phones and Human Nature
Symantec deliberately "lost" a bunch of smart phones with tracking software on them, just to see what would happen: Some 43 percent of finders clicked on an app...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printable Paper Robots
A simple idea. An MIT project that aims to create such devices by 2017. Directionally interesting, but does not seem to be very practical. Though as the example...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lecturing for a First Year Programming Class
I gave a guest lecture at Carleton last week. It was for the first programming class that both computer science and non-major students take, taught using Processing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Y Online Shopping Mall
The Big Y Marketplace debuts. The idea has been tried a number of times in the past, not to particular success. Being a single place aggregator for online experiences...
From Schneier on Security
Law Enforcement Forensics Tools Against Smart Phones
Turns out the password can be easily bypassed: XRY works by first jailbreaking the handset. According to Micro Systemation, no
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces New Expeditions in Computing Awards
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) today announced four new Expeditions in Computing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
It is what you do, not what you own
Over 20 years ago, back when I was in high school, I went on a sailboat trip. I was so impressed that I decided to own a sailboat one day. I realized that a sailboat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coca Cola Research on Social Media Users
A report in Progressive Grocer on Coca Cola's analysis of social media users. " ... A report from the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council divides social media...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Culture Taking Over
In Adage: On the increase of image based culture. Pinterest and the increase image tweets are just a few examples. Easier to scan, yes. A thousand words? But...
From Computational Complexity
We Think Like Our Fields
Have lunch with economists and they'll talk about the decision making processes and equilibriums of everything from politics to sports. Computer scientists worry...
From Schneier on Security
Computer Forensics: An Example
Paul Ceglia's lawsuit against Facebook is fascinating, but that's not the point of this blog post. As part of the case, there are allegations that documents and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
DigiGirlz Cambridge MA
Last Friday Microsoft NERD (New England Research and Development Center) was pleased to host DigiGirlz Day for close to 300 high school girls from around Massachusetts...
From Putting People First
Mayo Clinic on empathy and design
James Oliver Senior and Adam Dole, resp. designer and business planner at Mayo Clinic, argue that health-related apps often fail to take into account any understanding...
From Putting People First
Service design talk by Anna Meroni in Sweden
Anna Meroni, PhD, is a scholar and professor in Service and Strategic Design at Politecnico di Milano. She works on design activism, social innovation and sustainability...
From The Eponymous Pickle