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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 Schneier on Security
Drone Flights Over the US
The EFF has been prying data out of the government and analyzing it.
From Putting People First
Helsinki Design Lab: an interview with Brian Boyer
Bryan Boyer is the Strategic Design Lead at SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund. SITRA is a prominent example of a public institution that has embraced a design...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Call for Proposals Annual CSTA Conference 2013
This call for proposals for the 2012 Annual CSTA Conference went out to members of the Computer Science Teachers Association this week. One doesn’t have to be a...
From Putting People First
They know what you’re shopping for
Companies today are increasingly tying people’s real-life identities to their online browsing habits. Research conducted by the Wall Street Journal on the practices...
From Putting People First
Can reputation come down to a number?
The idea of a unified reputation currency is starting to take hold online, writes Josh Klein in the blog of the Harvard Business Review. “With broad agreement that...
From Putting People First
On Digital Ethnography: mapping as a mode of data discovery
While digital ethnography is an established field within ethnography, we don’t often hear of ethnographers building digital tools to conduct their fieldwork. Wendy...
From Putting People First
Welcome to 2020 and 2030
Business Technology 2020 Human-like technology. The potential downfall of the data center. Hyper-personalization of data. These are some of the responses IT leaders...
From Putting People First
Are we becoming cyborgs?
Also the New York Times is turning up the cyborg theme, but luckily more intelligently than CNN. All the technology and internet use has changed how we interact...
From Putting People First
Designing a carsharing service that can play a truly relevant role in people’s lives
Brand experience agency edenspiekermann_ and Volkswagen’s Service Innovation Team explored what it takes to define a service that would play a relevant role in...
From Putting People First
Time for a digital hat rack
Though hats have long gone out of fashion, the custom should be a guide for how we adapt to the increasing pervasiveness of personal technology. It’s high time,...
From Putting People First
The “strange” profession of the cyborg anthropologist
CNN features a long article about the unusual new profession of the cyborg anthropologist – featuring a robot hand photo for good measure. But reading the article...
From Putting People First
A short film that explores trends in UI, Interaction & Experience Design
The 18 minute “Connecting” documentary, created by Bassett & Partners for Windows Phone Design Studio, is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and...
From Putting People First
A new Behavioural Design Lab in the UK
The Warwick Business School and the UK Design Council have launched the world’s first Behavioural Design Lab. The lab aims to bring together the power of design...
From Putting People First
Visualising data: seeing is believing
Richard Ingram has posted the transcript of his talk on data visualisation at CS Forum 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa.
From Putting People First
Service design for innovative banking
Chris Brooker recently ran the Service Design for Innovative Banking workshop at the World Usability Day conference in Silesia, Poland, during which he explored...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Zombie Game That's Not Really About Zombies
My brother got me a copy of The Walking Dead, which includes all five of the episodes that were previously released separately. He said he got it for three reasons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Your Data Telling You?
HP's Saum Mathur:"... For many data scientists, innovation is just out of reach. They might have massive data stores, rich with potential business insights, but...
From Computational Complexity
Book review column
(I am a bit behind on posting links to my book review column- this blog post is about the Third (of four) for the year 2012, and the fourth of four has alreadyhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Shopper Marketing Study
In Progressive Grocer: A study: " ... A study of shopper-marketing trends by Brick Meets Click found that more shoppers are using digital platforms and are willing...
From Schneier on Security