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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 The Eponymous Pickle
What Designers Need to Know About Strategy
Good general advice: I think there is more 'magic' in design driven organizations, thus strategy is even more important than in engineering/quant driven. Good...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
She++ Is a Winner
Yesterday evening, I saw She++, one of the most amazing documentary videos. Two of my students, Ellora Israni and Ayna Agarwal, produced this documentary on young...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disappearing Messages
In MIT Technology Review: The increasing use of messages that will expire, self destruct and just go away. When I first saw evidence, I wondered how much consumer...
From Putting People First
Steamrolled by Big Data
“Some problems do genuinely lend themselves to Big Data solutions,” writes Gary Marcus in The New Yorker. “But not every problem fits those criteria; unpredictability...
From Putting People First
Gestural, Wearable, Neural – the new pillars of interaction design
This is an exciting time to be a digital designer, as the future of digital interaction is all around us, writes Nev Fordyce, reflecting on his SxSW experience....
From Computational Complexity
Gary Miller to Receive the Knuth Prize
The 2013 Knuth Prize will be awarded to Gary Miller at STOC (ACM Press Release). The Knuth prize is now given yearly for outstanding contributions to the foundations...
From Putting People First
Jan-Christoph Zoels speaker at three Salone del Mobile events
Jan-Christoph Zoels, one of Experientia’s founding partners and our creative director, is going to be a lot in Milan next week. Aside from his participation on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vega: A Visualization Grammar
Intriguing idea, for any visualization." ... Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving and sharing visualization designs. With...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What we Don't Know
In the Edge: Posed as questions from our own field that we dread being asked. The examples are very interesting. Mapping out what we know we don't know. For "How...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanotech Motors
In Foresight: A good place to follow progress in the nanotech space. A visual of a nanotech motor that might be used in some spectacular ways: " ... Near-term...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New York Times Article Highlights ‘Gentle’ Robots
A recent article in the New York Times describes the newer generation of robots that are able to interact with and learn from humans. In the past, factories separated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Risk
In Corporate Governance: I particularly like the discussion of how you deal with different kinds of risk. Risk is often considered an afterthought, even in sophisticated...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard E-Mail, Again
Yesterday was the long-awaited faculty meeting after the news that Harvard had examined the e-mail (metadata) of the Resident Deans looking for a leak of what was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Basics of Bitcoin
A NewYorker overview of what Bitcoin is and where its future might be. A P2P open source digital currency, they say, but what does that really mean? It has been...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Problem With Projects
When teaching beginners how to program there are a whole cast of variables to deal with. One of them is finding learning projects or exercises that are complicated...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Upcoming Eye Surgery
I'll be out of commission for the next little while as I embark on my second of two eye surgeries. I have a corneal disease called keratoconus, which makes the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Infographics, Socially
I have written before that infographics are a poor way to provide data to people. It can often be used to twist information to your purposes, using slick graphics...
From Schneier on Security
IT for Oppression
Whether it's Syria using Facebook to help identify and arrest dissidents or China using its "Great Firewall" to limit access to international news throughout the...
From Putting People First