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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Thoughts on Grading Schemes
I spent my entire reading week grading an assignment from the first year game development course I TA for. The assignment was to design a board game with rules...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Android Robotics
A good overview, with lots of pictures, of progress in android robotics in Japan. For care giving and beyond. The empathic and human aspects are still to be determined...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secrets of Data Visualization
Erica Driver writes about data visualization. Some practical and often very true thoughts.The best secret of all that I can contribute is that you have to have...
From Wild WebMink
WebDAV Direct
LibreOffice can connect natively to a WebDav server, apparently. Here’s another video in the same series as the ones I posted about CMIS connections, showing LibreOffice...
From Putting People First
Call for Papers for EPIC 2013 London
Since its inception, the EPIC conference has brought together a dynamic community of practitioners and scholars concerned with how ethnographic thinking and methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empathic Design
The term was a new one to me. I do agree that users are people, and you have to consider their needs to make a system that supports their decisions. Thus all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinglist
A very simple App for saving ideas and recommendations that I am currently trying. Simple is good. Is it more simple than using a basic note taking function?
From CERIAS Blog
Some thoughts on “cybersecurity” professionalization and education
[I was recently asked for some thoughts on the issues of professionalization and education of people working in cyber security. I realize I have been asked this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking At Curriculum From Different Angles
My job at Microsoft was to promote the use of Microsoft tools for computer science education. It was a great job and I was promoting tools that I had and that I...
From Putting People First
Designing empathy into an open Internet of Things
The mobile technology of tomorrow may be real-time, always on and algorithm driven in its characteristics, writes designer Jessi Baker, but there is a real opportunity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why BI Fails
I agree with some of the commenters. Tools may be necessary these days, but they are not sufficient. Your BI project will mostly likely fail not because features...
From Putting People First
Cultivating empathic design in an analytical world
There is an empathy gap in technology development, argues April Demosky on the FT’s Tech Blog. “In the analytic, data-driven world of Silicon Valley, emotions often...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP mandates free public access to publications
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has directed that the published results of federally funded research (final peer-reviewed manuscripts or...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congressional Briefing on Software Patent Reforms
Leading high-tech executives spoke this week on the best ways to promote innovation and improve the quality of software patents at an industry-sponsored Congressional...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Land Squids
Funny. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations sought for CCC Council
The Computing Community Consortium is governed by an 18-member Council, with members on 3-year staggered terms. The CCC’s Nominating Committee invites nominations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Safeway Avoids Print
In Adage: Safeway looks at a world without print ads, moves digital. " ... Safeway is doing its best to eliminate print advertising in favor of more personalized...
From Schneier on Security
I Was on Inventing the Future
I was a guest on Inventing the Future, for an episode on surveillance technology. The video is here.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Form Available for CRA Outstanding Undergrad Researchers Award
The Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog