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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
Shoppers Stick to their Lists?
Reported in Mediapost: This seems to be contrary to our own experiences, even overstating how many people actually make lists. Its good to see more research coming...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-14
Twitter kills the password anti-pattern, but at what cost? Jon Udell argues that the switch to OAuth comes at the cost of a loss of flexibility and the potential...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-14
Commons Law – ComputerworldUK.com Great to see UK open source law expert Andrew Katz is now blogging on the (steadily expanding) open source blog at ComputerWorldUK...
From Wild WebMink
? Wise Handling
Twitter kills the password anti-pattern, but at what cost? Jon Udell argues that the switch to OAuth comes at the cost of a loss of flexibility and the potential...
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerabilities in US-CERT Network
You'd think US-CERT would do somewhat better.
From Computational Complexity
How Can You Spend $150 Million?
Suppose you happen to have $150 million burning in your pocket that you want to use to help the theoretical computer science community ($150 million endowed will...
From Putting People First
Experience-based product design from Intel
The Day Zero event of the Intel Developer Forum started off with a presentation by Intel Fellow (and anthropologist) Genevieve Bell who is now also the head of...
From Putting People First
Extensive interview with user interface expert Bill Buxton
Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail has published an extensive, three-part interview that Chad Sapieha conducted with Microsoft Principal Researcher (and fellow...
From Putting People First
Cellphones, social networks make eavesdropping OK?
Not only are many unconcerned about strangers overhearing cellphone calls, we purposely broadcast our personal business on Facebook and Twitter. Sharon Jayson reports...
From Putting People First
Human-computer interaction for development
Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The Past, Present, and Future Research article by Melissa R. Ho (University of California, Berkeley), Thomas N. Smyth...
From Wild WebMink
? Community Types Essay
My essay on Community Types is now available in the Essays section of the site. It defines what I mean by terms like “co-developer” and “deployer-developer” when...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enabled Surfaces
We talked to several office furniture and space manufacturers and they were all looking at the possibility of making work surfaces, walls and even floors into interactive...
From Apophenia
Call for Papers: Digital Media & Learning Conference
Interested in Digital Media & Learning? Well, the 2011 Digital Media & Learning Conference is looking for some interesting talks, papers, and sessions. They’ve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Promise of Computers in Patient Care
In the latest Communications of the ACM: Computers in Patient Care: Why has progress been so slow?. A good readable article that includes a good narrative about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Brands a Wireless Plan
Wal-Mart has branded its own wireless plan. " ... it is introducing the first cell phone plan that uses the chain's own branding, further demonstrating its clout...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future Full Text Search
I see that the exciting temporal search engine 'Recorded Furture' has added full text search to its premium interface. A very nice ability, which makes you depend...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hold the In-App Ads
As is obvious, mobile users do not like Ads with their mobile Apps. As in the early days of the Web until now, they will accept them for the right value trade off...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Social Commerce
Charlene Li, always interesting, on the what she calls the rise of social commerce. Which will be talked about at an upcoming meeting.
From Schneier on Security
Kenzero
Kenzero is a Japanese Trojan that collects and publishes users' porn surfing habits, and then blackmails them to remove the information.
From Apophenia