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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 23
May 23 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the Administration’s cybersecurity proposal. 10:30 a.m., 342...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-23
Open source .NET mimic rises from Novell ashes I'd heard Miguel was looking for funding to do this so I'm not surprised, but I still offer him warm congratulations...
From Schneier on Security
Dropbox Security
I haven't written about Dropbox's security problems; too busy with the book. But here's an excellent summary article from The Economist. The meta-issue is pretty...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 May 2011
Every week end I go to grab by Twitter stream and the notes I have taken as ask myself
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling at the Heart of Product Development
Why we need storytelling There's an interesting question on Quora right now:If you had to pick between an amazing product designer or an amazing engineer to build...
From Putting People First
New service design resource in France
Matthew Marino and his team of User Studio, a French user innovation and design company, have launched designdeservices.org, a great online resource for the francophone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Usability Testing with Eye Tracking
A stand and process developed by Tobii to test mobile devices using eye tracking. Explanatory video. Looks to be well thought out for examples like shelf interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Control
Dan Ariely looks at self control and its link to capitalism and its manipulation. " ... The scientific community is increasingly coming to realize how central self...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Gathers in Kosmix, Goes Silent with Walmart Labs
Around May 3 Wal-Mart gathered up Kosmix, social networking player. I wrote about it then. At the same time the folks at Kosmix started to talk about a transition...
From Putting People First
Create Your Own 2011
Create Your Own 2011 (CYO2011) is a highly recommended event taking place in Berlin on 30-31 May where participants can explore the reality and future behind individualisation...
From Putting People First
Are our lives vanishing into the cloud?
“[Soon] we will no longer possess, in a formal sense, our own stuff,” writes Adam Silver, design strategist at frog. “Not even on our hard drives. Instead, it will...
From Putting People First
Ten principles that contribute to a Googley user experience
The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Statistician Reads Blink
An excellent two part (read them both) view of the analytical shortcomings of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Blink got the attention of many managers, and they brought...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Data! I need more data!
Big data! I don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web vs Native Mobile App
Thoughts on Native vs Web Apps in Readwriteweb:" What is the future of the mobile Internet? Are native applications going to be the dominant form of digital interaction...
From My Biased Coin
NSF Bows to Blog Pressure (Tongue-in-Cheek)
As some of you may recall, I accused the NSF of being "misguided" in changing its graduate fellowship policy to effectively disallow teaching. So I was please...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MindBox Studios
Recently chatted with Mindbox Studios. Impressive so far. " .... Mindbox Studios is a web design and development company located in Cincinnati, Ohio. We specialize...
From Wild WebMink
? OO.o, TDF and CLAs
Having read LWN’s (paywalled but accessible from here) interview with Mark Shuttleworth, where he is quoted as saying that the formation of The Document Foundation...
From Schneier on Security