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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Senate Hearing on Making Movies and Inflight Entertainment Accessible
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a legislative hearing last week on two bills that would address accessible entertainment in movie...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Giant Squid
How does he know this? Chris Cosentino, the Bay Area’s "Offal Chef" at Incanto in San Francisco and PIGG at Umamicatessen in Los Angeles, opted for the most intimidating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Ready to Start Shipping Glass
In CW World. Looks as though we are about to start another interesting socio-technical experiment. I have my doubts that this will become common, or socially...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Feynlabs Has the Right Idea: Start With CS Concepts
I received an email from Lee Omar of UK-based Feynlabs this morning. It opened with the following:Feynlabs believes that current IT teaching in schools which is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Innovation Possibilities
Google CEO Larry Page says they at 1% of what is possible. I am concerned about wielding a number like that without some backing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking as Privacy Invasion?
Is eye tracking a privacy invasion? Similar arguments to the use of neuroanalysis while interacting with product or process. In Mashable.
From Schneier on Security
Training Baggage Screeners
The research in G. Giguère and B.C. Love, "Limits in decision making arise from limits in memory retrieval," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v.Abstract...
From Putting People First
Free information, as great as it sounds, will enslave us all
“While people are created equal, computers are not. When people share information freely, those who own the best computers benefit in extreme ways that are denied...
From Wild WebMink
Can Ubuntu Phone Succeed?
On FLOSS Weekly this week, Jono Bacon told us all about the Ubuntu Phone. I’ve summarised the most interesting points on InfoWorld today, but the key take-away...
From Putting People First
The future of technology isn’t mobile, it’s contextual
In the coming years, there will be a shift toward contextual computing, writes Pete Mortensen of Jump Associates, defined in large part by Georgia Tech researchers...
From Putting People First
Interview: “Hosting Todd Harple, INTEL Experience Engineer at ITC-ILO”.
Some time ago, we suggested to Todd Harple, an anthropologist at Intel, to consider doing his 10 week sabbatical here in Turin at the International Training Center...
From Putting People First
Big Data needs Thick Data
In the wake of Big Data, ethnographers can offer thick data, says Tricia Wang. In the face of the derisive mention of “anecdotes”, we ought to stand up to defend...
From Schneier on Security
New Report on Teens, Social Media, and Privacy
Interesting report from the From the Pew Internet and American Life Project: Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snubbing Apps vs Desktop
In CW World: It seems most MS WIN 8 users just try to find their way back to the classic desktop, avoiding the 'modern' App tile interface. Only touch tablet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Bar Code Scanning
A piece by the standards group GS1: GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance team up to bring intelligent bar code scanning to mobile devices ... GS1 and Open Mobile Alliance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethernet and the Cloud
Have noted a number of anniversaries in the last few weeks. The Web is 20 years old. And now the basic infrastructure that created the Internet, the Ethernet,...
From Computational Complexity
Quantum Computing Fast and Slow
I just read two very different science books, Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow and Scott Aaronson's Quantum Computing since Democritus. Not much to connect...
From Schneier on Security
One-Shot vs. Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
This post by Aleatha Parker-Wood is very applicable to the things I wrote in Liars & Outliers: A lot of fundamental social problems can be modeled as a disconnection...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Some Thoughts About MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) seem to be a major topic of conversation in higher education these days. Online courses for high school students tend toWould...
From The Eponymous Pickle