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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 Putting People First
Experientia at EPIC 2012
Experientia will be at EPIC Conference, on October 14-17 2012, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design [SCAD], Savannah, USA. This year, Experientia president...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Debugging is Good For Learning
I was going to title this post “I love debugging” because, well, I do love debugging code. For me that is one of the most fun puzzle solving mind challenging things...
From Putting People First
Why we are so rude online
Why are we so nasty to each other online, asks Elizabeth Bernstein in the Wall Street Journal. Whether on Facebook, Twitter, message boards or websites, we say...
From Putting People First
Smart cities in Italy and France
The European House-Ambrosetti, an Italian economic think tank/management consultancy and organisers of the very prestigious annual international economic conference...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science: Tool or Way of Knowing?
I gave a talk recently and, at the end, a faculty member from a non-CS discipline asked me "So, is computer science a tool or a fundamental way of knowing?" My...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Print Your Own Replacement Parts
A move forward in 3-D printing. " ... Want a new part for your synthesizer? Need a replacement knob or dial? In a first, one company is telling its customers to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pack Mule
DARPA's pack mule for the soldier is getting closer to reality. Saw some early tests in robotics exhibitions but wondered if it would ever be used. Expect the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Lessons Learned from 9/11
An interesting piece from Paul Barsch. Via Gib Bassett. Intelligence and its integration used to be a function that I worked in, so it is intriguing to see this...
From Apophenia
omg girls’ bodies are fascinating: embracing the gendered side of quantified self
Ever since I broke my neck as a teenager, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with my body. Truth be told, I’d much rather be a cyborg or a brain on a stick. I prize...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard CS Is Hiring
Tenure Track Position Open. Here's the official blurb:Tenure-track Position in Computer ScienceThe Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks...
From Putting People First
‘Smart City’ planning needs the right balance (WSJ)
In the pantheon of Next Big Thing trends, the concept of “smart cities” is one of the trendiest, writes Ben Rooney in the Wall Street Journal. The idea is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging Technologies Reshape Data Center
I had a conversation just the other day with an enterprise center manager. Ever since the emergence of mobile, the complexity of issues like data security hasDiscussed...
From The Noisy Channel
Office Hours at Cambridge Brewing Company
I’ll be in Cambridge, MA this Thursday and Friday for the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2012). Hope to see many...
From Schneier on Security
Scary iPhone Malware Story
This story sounds pretty scary: Developed by Robert Templeman at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indiana and a few buddies from Indiana University, PlaceRader...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 October 2012
Well it’s a new month. It’s been about three weeks in this location (for the blog) and I sure do appreciate how many people stuck with me over the move. Seems like...
From Putting People First
How to design mental models that create a superior user experience
Leanne Byrom, a freelance UX practitioner and UX lead for Phosphor Digital, writes about the importance of mental models in UX design: Designing something right...
From Putting People First
Mass persuasion, one user at a time
Nir Eyal writes how marketers are increasingly personalizing their products and services to meet their customers’ changing needs, and how customization used in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Ecosystems
In GigaOM: On the value of geographical mapping ecosystems. And why Apple took a risk with it's update of the iPhone maps. Is the move similar to the half-baked...
From The Eponymous Pickle