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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
Overreaction and Overly Specific Reactions to Rare Risks
Horrific events, such as the massacre in Aurora, can be catalysts for social and political change. Sometimes it seems that they're the only catalyst; recall how...
From Putting People First
Book: UX Best Practices
UX Best Practices – How to Achieve More Impact with User Experience Helmut Degen & Xiaowei Yuan (Eds.) McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2011 ISBN-10: 007175251X, ISBN...
From Putting People First
Ethnography for user experience
In three essays John Payne, Principal of Moment’s Experience Design practice, reflects on his workshop, Ethnography for User Experience, and their field research...
From Putting People First
Intel’s futurist envisions life in 2022
Brian David Johnson gets paid to predict the future. He is the first, the one, and the only futurist at Intel, charged with envisioning how people will interact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transforming Engineering Education
Correspondent David Goldberg points me to the BigBeacon blog. A movement to transform engineering education ... Which also syndicates some of his writing on...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Michigan Coding, Complexity, and Sparsity Workshop
Lion tracks in Wolverine territory Anna Gilbert and Martin Strauss are experts in many aspects of mathematics and its relationship to fundamental questions of computer...
From Schneier on Security
Court Orders TSA to Answer EPIC
Year ago, EPIC sued the TSA over full body scanners (I was one of the plantiffs), demanding that they follow their own rules and ask for public comment. The court...
From The Eponymous Pickle
No Boss Environments
Wharton examines the no-boss environment. An unachievable utopia? Or the future of a strong social, but also measurable environment?
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Online Education: Is it All it's Cracked Up To Be?
MOOC's —Massive Open Online Courses — are all the rage these days. These are systems that allow hundreds of thousands of learners from around the world to take...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Behavior vs Technology
In Fastcompany: A useful thought, which we used with regard to setting and testing contexts that changed behavior. " ... Behavior is the unknowable variable in...
From Schneier on Security
Hotel Door Lock Vulnerability
The attack only works sometimes, but it does allow access to millions of hotel rooms worldwide that are secured by Onity brand locks. Basically, you can read the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Construct 2 - the HTML5 game maker
I’ve been experimenting with Construct 2 from Scirra the last few days. Construct 2 is a program from creating HTML 5 games. What really got my interest was that...
From Apophenia
Participatory Culture: What questions do you have?
Henry Jenkins, Mimi Ito, and I have embarked on an interesting project for Polity. Through a series of dialogues, we’re hoping to produce a book that interrogates...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Pictures and Big Insight
In Google Research: Big Pictures with big messages. How do we deliver big data onto a palette that makes the the message clear? Easier with geographical maps...
From Computational Complexity
MOOCs
I haven't posted in about a month. A combination of traveling, vacation, moving to Atlanta and getting started as chair. I appreciate why Michael Mitzenmacher stopped...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Judea Pearl’s Turing Award Lecture at AAAI-12
Judea Pearl received the 2011 ACM A. M. Turing Award “for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic...
From Schneier on Security
Profile on Eugene Kaspersky
Wired has an interesting and comprehensive profile on Eugene Kaspersky. Especially note Kaspersky Lab's work to uncover US cyberespionage against Iran, Kaspersky's...
From The Noisy Channel
Hiring: Taking It Personally
As a manager, I’ve found that I mostly have two jobs: bringing great people onto the team, and creating the conditions for their success. The second job is the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS on Big Data
Alison Bolen of the SASCom Blog aggregates a number of good thoughts and posts about the topic of big data.
From The Eponymous Pickle