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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
Experience design is now part of business logic
Om Malik of GigaOm argues that the cambrian explosion of mobile apps and cloud-based services as well as the exponential growth of data has led him to a very simple...
From Putting People First
Selected videos from “The Conference” in Sweden
Media Evolution The Conference is an international conference organized annually in Malmö, Sweden. The event focuses on factors that are affecting our society,...
From Putting People First
Thoughts on clever cities
The multiplexed metropolis Enthusiasts think that data services can change cities in this century as much as electricity did in the last one. The Economist – in...
From Putting People First
Rebecca Solnit on the downside of social and mobile technology
Rebecca Solnit writes – in an excellent piece – that she feels as though she is in a bad science fiction movie where everyone takes orders from tiny boxes that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Book on Intelligent Data Analysis
This book was brought to my attention during our artificial intelligence days. It has gone through another edition since I taught from it. Profited from its...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Pictures of My New Office
I moved into my new office on Tuesday, and finally decorated a little bit. Here are some photos of my new home!My teaching and office hours are now posted on the...
From Schneier on Security
The NSA is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet
The new Snoden revelations are explosive. Basically, the NSA is able to decrypt most of the Internet. They're doing it primarily by cheating, not by mathematics...
From Schneier on Security
The Effect of Money on Trust
Money reduces trust in small groups, but increases it in larger groups. Basically, the introduction of money allows society to scale. The team devised an experiment...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Access Board Public Meeting on September 11
The U.S. Access Board, an independent federal agency, will hold its regular public Board Meeting on Wednesday, September 11, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The meeting...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
State Assessment Requirements and the CSTA Resources
How have you used the resources on the CSTA website? Have you read the new reports? Are you familiar with the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards? The crosswalks...
From Schneier on Security
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
I keep getting alerts of new issues, but there are rarely articles I find interesting.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Games Engaging Customers
In Innovation Excellence: About game dynamics engaging your customers. Includes a number of examples I had not heard of. Also makes an often forgotten point...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification and Sales
An example of using Gamification for sales support. " .... created a remote online customer sales chat platform that implements gamification to encourage remote...
From Schneier on Security
Human/Machine Trust Failures
I jacked a visitor's badge from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, last month. The badges are electronic; they're enabled when you check...
From Putting People First
Pew: 86% of USA adults make efforts to hide digital footprints online
Pew Research Center found that 86 percent of surveyed adult Internet users in the U.S. have made efforts to obscure their “digital footprints” — which could include...
From Putting People First
Experientia designs mobile site for UN affiliate to promote mobile learning
This week, the ITC-ILO, a United Nations affiliate, officially launched an Experientia-designed mobile site to promote mobile learning tools within the organisation...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Euler’s Constants
Having a constant named after you is cool Jeffrey Lagarias was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories for years, and later joined the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Laundry
Though it may seem an odd topic for here, have for a long time followed innovations in the process of doing the laundry. Despite it seeming a very mundane thing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Air Interfaces
In GigaOM: Saw something similar at graphics show. Required some hard to manage setup, but was impressively mysterious. But that example was display only andDisplair...
From Schneier on Security