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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
The Screen and the Drum
The latest issue of Design and Culture contains an article by Louise Crewe, Nicky Gregson and Alan Metcalfe on
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Brain Lies Also
Very good video of a talk by Neuroeconomics researcher Drazen Prelec at MIT. ' ... A pioneer in a
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Arrow of Time
Ever wonder what the meaning of time is? A wonderful set of Ted lectures by Sean Carroll on the arrow of time. Mind-bending. Via Delaine Hampton.-
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Intersection of Education and Entertainment
How many times have you heard a teacher say something like
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The mythical reproducibility of science
David Donoho was among the first researchers to promote reproducible research through software publication
From Schneier on Security
Young People, Privacy, and the Internet
There's a lot out there on this topic. I've already linked to danah boyd's excellent SXSW talk (and her work in general), my essay on privacy and control, andSecurity...
From My Biased Coin
Advisors and Publications
There have been several interesting comments regarding the student/advisor relationship on my previous posts (here, here, and here) on co-authorship. It's clearly...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Not All Women's Groups Are Harmful
After reading Hilary Mason's Stop talking, start coding article, I was thinking about writing a reaction. It slipped my mind until Terri Oda wrote her piece Women...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-04-20
Women to blame for earthquakes, says Iran cleric If you are in any doubt about the size of the cultural gulf that separates societies on this planet, read and weep...
From Computational Complexity
Life without Flying
A reminder that registration for all three Cambridge conferences are now live: STOC (early registration deadline April 30), Complexity (May 3) and Electronic...
From Schneier on Security
The Effectiveness of Political Assassinations
This is an excellent read: I wouldn't have believed you if you'd told me 20 years ago that America would someday be routinely firing missiles into countries it
From Putting People First
Transition for display industry
Interesting, this point of view from the Samsung Economic Research Institute: “As demand for CRT display devices winds down and the penetration rates of TVs and...
From Putting People First
How do older people use e-mail?
Researchers at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Spain have studied how older people interact and use email in their daily life. The study, conducted by Sergio...
From Putting People First
Emerging-market consumers are hard to reach
The Economist explores the topic of consumer research in emerging markets: “Emerging markets are far more varied and volatile than mature ones. There is little...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Librarians in the Information Age
A few days back I posted about the US Library of Congress saving all Tweets. I just came upon a book: This Book is Overdue ... by Marilyn Johnson. Which covers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego and Adidas with Augmented Reality Packaging
An interesting example of Lego using extended packaging to excite potential buyers, partnering with Metaio, see also, related work with Adidas. 'LEGO Group Brings...
From My Biased Coin
Should Harvard's Intro CS Class Do Away with Grades
There's been discussions of late on the possibility of offering our intro CS class in two flavors -- a "graded" and "SAT/UNSAT" version. (Same class, just twoVolatile...
From The Eponymous Pickle
God as a Mathematician
Herman Wouk on God as a mathematician. Is it, as Wouk suggests: The Language God Talks ... "? . More on writer Herman Wouk.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Low Cost Winners
In Harvard Business: The Secret Sauce of Low Cost Winners. " ... it is a culture that is "proud to be cheap" in good times and bad. Their people cut erasers...
From The Noisy Channel