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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 Wild WebMink
Open Source and Cloud
After the Community Summit at Open World Forum, three of the speakers – including me – spent 10 minutes discussing how cloud computing impacts the open source community...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Blog Reaches Over 300,000 Views!
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog, which was created in 2008, has served as a means for exchanging information between the research community and funding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Temporal Forecasting Story
Connecting methods to provide forecasts. Forecasts based on semantically rich text data, such as that based on blog entries, news posts, or tweets. Today I met...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Sites
A number of sites to watch that deal with the topic of big data. lots of hype of late, but the topic needs to be watched as techniques evolve.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
One Man’s Floor Is Another Man’s Ceiling
Factoring again, always factoring… Peter Borwein is among those who carry forward the title mission of Alan Turing’s famous paper, “On Computable Numbers…” With...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Postoc / Visiting Scholar Call
Harvard's CRCS is looking for postdocs! Please apply....We're very interested in theorists (and, of course, non-theorists as well!) in all of the areas listedhttp...
From Wild WebMink
Kicking Comic Sans
If you have been using the font Comic Sans to support dyslexics, there’s a new font in town – see ComputerWorldUK.
From Schneier on Security
Studying Zero-Day Attacks
Interesting paper: "Before We Knew It: An Empirical Study of Zero-Day Attacks In The Real World," by Leyla Bilge and Tudor Dumitras: Abstract: Little is known...
From Putting People First
Book: Innovating for People
Innovating for People Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods by LUMA Institute 2012, 86 pages Abstract Innovation is an economic imperative that calls for more...
From Putting People First
Human Drives card set
Our friends at human-centered design consultancy Namahn in Brussels have created a lovely “human drive” card set to be used as a source of inspiration for ideation...
From Putting People First
BMW’s electric experience
Martin C. Pedersen reports in a long article for Metropolis Magazine on the 2014 BMW i3, the company’s first fully electric vehicle aimed at city driving. The article...
From Putting People First
Brave New City
Metropolis Magazine asked seven visionary design teams, both established and up-and-coming, what they predict a fully accessible city might look like (and better...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Basic Gangnam Style!
Last week I was browsing though my RSS feeds and came across a post called Python Gangnam Style! that was all about playing music with Python. Now Python is a fine...
From Putting People First
Creating behaviour change in people using mobile technology
Rajeev Suri posted a short interview with Gustav Praekelt of Praekelt Consulting and the Praekelt Foundation, who focuses on creating behaviour change in people...
From Putting People First
The Age of User Experience Design – Infographic
The growth of the User Experience Design field is breathtaking, but well deserved. Thanks to UX Designers all over the world, the quality of products has increased...
From Wild WebMink
The Forces Of Open
What’s driving open source? That was the question InfoWorld asked me to explore for a feature-length article. I spent a good deal of time over the summer thinking...
From Putting People First
User experience in the age of sustainability
Designers, as makers of products and services, are key stewards of our planet because the products and services we design influence the ways in which people live...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New MIT Center for Mobile
MIT newest research center will focus on mobile technologies. More here. Also known more formally as the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Apps4VA Hackathons
My friend Ed Donahue asked me to pass along some information about Apps4VA and their upcoming hackathons this weekend. Apps4VA sounds pretty cool so I am happyApps4VA...
From The Eponymous Pickle