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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
Latest Donald Norman essay started a big debate
Donald Norman ’s recent essay Technology First, Needs Last, in which he argues that “design research is great when it comes to improving existing product categories...
From My Biased Coin
TSA Oops
You may have heard on the news that the TSA (temporarily) put up their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedure on the web. As pointed out on this blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managong Business Complexity
Re-Discovered: Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation by Michael J. North and Charles M. Macal ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing in Forbes
Sally Satel, MD, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She comments on On neuromarketing in Forbes.
From Schneier on Security
My Reaction to Eric Schmidt
Schmidt said: I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really...
From Computational Complexity
Is posting about 17x17 problem BAD FOR ACADEMIA?
(The 17x17 problem has gotten far wider attention than I imagined--- Brian Hayes posted it on his website: here, and its also here and here. The last website is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive Area Chart
From Flowingdata: How to make an interactive area chart, like the name voyager from the Baby Name Wizard by Martin Wattenberg. See the example on the right that...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Run-length encoding (part 3)
In Run-length encoding (part 1), I presented the various run-length encoding formats. In part 2, I discussed the coding of the counters. In this third part, I want...
From Putting People First
Does technology need personality?
Cennydd Bowles, a user experience designer at Clearleft in Brighton, England, writes about interaction design, behavioural change, and the design of emotions. “If...
From Schneier on Security
Emotional Epidemiology
This, from The New England Journal of Medicine, sounds familiar: This is the story line for most headline-grabbing illnesses
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-09
How stranger danger changed the way children play Strong, sad story that's worth reading. Given the effects are so systemic and...
From Putting People First
Mumbai markings enhance service design
Meena Kadri reports on how lunch and laundry delivery in Mumbai – known as the Dabbawalla and Dhobi Ghat services
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extended Packaging Becomes Reality
From Global standards body GS1, the concept of extended packaging allows the consumer to gather unlimited information from packaging via devices. For example a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swash to be Sold Online Only
In an interesting development, P&G has decided to sell its Tide-Swash cleansing products online only. We visited their OSU - Columbus innovation store two years...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Nash Interview
A video interview of John Nash, game theory theorist, nobelist, and subject of the fictionalized movie: A Beautiful Mind.
From CERIAS Blog
Talking to the Police All the Time
I started writing this entry while thinking about the "if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear" fallacy. What do you say to someone who says...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Celebrating Computer Science Education Week
A little over a month ago, I wrote about the U.S. Congress passing a resolution designating the first week of December as Computer Science Education Week. As far...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why You Should Be a Global Warming Skeptic
The debacle of the leaked emails, data and code from the University of East Anglia showed that reputed global warming scientists were petty and cheaters. As always...
From Computational Complexity
Dequantification
After a talk on derandomization at Midwest Theory Day, someone asked if those techniques could also be used in quantum computing. In classical randomness under ...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science