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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
Experientia workshop on strategic UX design for Taiwanese businesses
Taiwan meets Italy this week, in a series of workshops and company visits hosted by Experientia for Taiwanese business people. The 15 chief customer experience...
From Computational Complexity
Cryptography and the NSA
Back at Northwestern I occasionally taught an undergraduate cryptography class since I was the local expert in the field (a statement not even remotely true atAdvanced...
From Schneier on Security
Ed Felten on the NSA Disclosures
Ed Felten has an excellent essay on the damage caused by the NSA secretly breaking the security of Internet systems: In security, the worst case -- the thing you...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
1000 Robots for An Hour of Code
BirdBrain Technologies has announced their intention to lend out 1,000 Finch robots as their contribution to this year's Computer Science Education Week and Code...
From Putting People First
What are users up to when they have an experience?
Understanding the experience of using an object depends on understanding the context of use, argues Jeff Doemland in UX Magazine. However, “The prevailing understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Customer Experience
An impressive writeup about how companies like McDonald's are attempting to manage customer experience. Can it really be optimized, as they say, when people are...
From Schneier on Security
Matthew Green Speculates on How the NSA Defeats Encryption
This blog post is well worth reading, and not just because Johns Hopkins University asked him to remove it, and then backed down a few hours later.
From Putting People First
The consumer has spoken but is anyone listening?
One would expect that listening to your customers’ needs and wants is a basic prerequisite for any business active in a competitive industry. It also is understandable...
From Putting People First
Design, innovation and government
Last week Joeri van den Steenhoven, attended the How Public Design? conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, which was organized by MindLab, the Danish design lab that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Nature of Book Reviews Here
I review books here from time to time. If you have a book that has anything to do with the content subjects seen here, and want to have it reviewed, contact me...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Limits of Fingerprint Security
The reported inclusion of fingerprint authentication in new iPhones means we will see this approach being used commonly. It is very convenient, but has its limitations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cerf On the Age of Context
Vint Cerf interview on the Age of context. His role as evangelist at at Google, and how the times are changing to adapt in a connected world. " ... “I think...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Harassment in the Computer Science Classroom
Two interesting and initially unrelated links came across my computer screen in the past couple of days. One was an image that said “Everyone talks about leaving...
From Schneier on Security
iPhone Fingerprint Authentication
When Apple bought AuthenTec for its biometrics technology -- reported as one of its most expensive purchases -- there was a lot of speculation about how the company...
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal and E-Commerce
In AdAge CMO Strategy What looks to be a rational way to think about e-commerce, as opposed to pure hype. Contains detail about what L'Oreal and competitors...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2014 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
CSTA members (you are a member right?) should have seen this in their email. The CSTA annual conference is in my humble opinion the single best professional development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey is Bullish on Digital
McKinsey provides a broad report from a survey and much statistics on the topic."Bullish on digital: McKinsey Global Survey resultsCEOs and other senior executives...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Issues Mid-Scale Infrastructure Solicitation; Webinar Scheduled
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Keith Marzullo, division director for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Computer and Network...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview on Big Data and Analytics for MidMarket
Friend Paul Gillin runs a Big Data Google Plus Hangout on the use of Big Data methods for Midmarket and beyond. The 37 minute stream brings together current users...
From Schneier on Security