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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Research Plan: The Role of Story in Educational Games
I've (finally!) been working on a concrete thesis research plan and wanted to share a general idea of what I'm intending to do. The short version is that I want...
From Computational Complexity
If Bill Tweeted what would he tweet (Steve Jobs Edition)
A more nuanced view of Steve Jobs: here. A less nuanced view of Steve Jobs: here. The next Steve Jobs: here A very nice NON-Steve Jobs post here. Is thisAndrew...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Card Deck Invention Games
Mind Hacks discusses the use of card decks for innovation. A game prompting invention. Several card deck examples I had not heard of. We used this technique...
From Putting People First
The many meanings of ethnography
Ethnography, Ethnography or Ethnography? What Happens When the Same Word Means Different Things to Different People? is the title of a new paper on ethnography...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 Standards Conference Report
In the Enterprise I participated in a number of presentations by GS1 " ... an international not-for-profit association dedicated to the development and implementation...
From Putting People First
dConstruct 2011 videos online
dConstruct 2011, the 2 September event in Brighton, England, brought together leading thinkers from the fields of interaction design, mobile design and ubiquitous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Workforce With Analytics
We used BI and Analytical methods early on in the enterprise in HR and it was very useful. More here in Business Finance: Business analytics offers a fresh take...
From Putting People First
Mr Cameron, it
Ageing populations and budget cuts mean devising a new social contract. So why not use real designers
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where Facebook is not Used
In FlowingData: A fascinating map that shows where on earth Facebook is not being used. Fairly universal.
From Putting People First
Guardian Tech Weekly podcast: creating a digital public space
Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space with the British Library, the Royal Opera House and the BBC. “How can we preserve analogue culture in a digital...
From My Biased Coin
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A colleague outside theory (but inside computer science) recently brought up an interesting question with me that seemed like a possible research-level issue. LogP...
From Putting People First
Video highlights from PICNIC Festival 2011
The videos of the presentations at PICNIC Festival 2011 (14-16 September, Amsterdam) are now online. Jake Barton on Urban Collaboration and Storytelling What will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The CKO in the Healthcare Data Explosion
Stan Dyck sends along this post from Healthcare IT News, very true:
From Putting People First
The birth (and death) of market research: why design research will prevail
The market research industry is built for the 20th Century mass production model, which is rapidly disappearing, argues Sam Ladner. The
From Putting People First
Audio interview with design anthropologist Dori Tunstall
Debbie Millman of DesignObserver.com interviewed design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on the insights that anthropology brings to consumerism and branding, and about...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Susan Graham to Receive Ken Kennedy Award
Susan L. Graham
From Schneier on Security
New Attacks on CAPTCHAs
Nice research: Abstract: We report a novel attack on two CAPTCHAs that have been widely deployed on the Internet, one being Google's home design and the other...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Kids to Read but not Write?
A tweet passed though my stream last night. Eugene Wallingford retweeted someone else
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM