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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 Eponymous Pickle
Digitizing Historical Maps
An interesting example of the digitization of some 200,000 historical maps, which will ultimately give them much larger distribution and preserve them for the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Continuing Innovation in Information Technology”:New NRC Report Links Government Research Investments to Nation’s Leadership
At the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) biennial Snowbird Conference today, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) will roll out a new report...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sociologically Inspired Technology
In the Edge: Looking at how people and animals socially interact and applying that organization more broadly. Akin to agent-based simulation methods we applied...
From Putting People First
Silicon Valley worries about addiction to devices
Computers, smartphones and other gadgets have made life easier, but now tech firms are worried that they may be harming people. Huh? Tech firms worried about addiction...
From Schneier on Security
Implicit Passwords
This is a really interesting research paper (article here) on implicit passwords: something your unconscious mind remembers but your conscious mind doesn't know...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Virtual Windows 8 Hands-on-Labs
Ready to learn how to develop for Windows 8? Well perhaps not quite ready for a dedicated machine or concerned about complicated set-up? Well in those cases the...
From Putting People First
Make your users do the work
“Make your users do the work< ” is the not very people-centred title of a guest piece by Nir Eyal on Techcrunch. He argues that putting users to work is critical...
From Putting People First
Awesome experiences make us nicer
New research by published in the journal Psychological Science shows that awe-inspiring moments can literally make time seem to stand still, or at least slow down...
From Putting People First
Making sense of the cross channel experience
In this short essay, Jon Fisher of UK consultancy Nomensa presents some introductory thoughts about Nomensa’s framework for ”sense making in cross channel design...
From Putting People First
mHealth: the next frontier or too much hype?
mHealth: The Next Frontier For Mobile Service Growth By Scott Wilson and Phil Asmundson of Deloitte Advances in wireless remote patient monitoring (RPM) are expected...
From Putting People First
Debate on the UXPA name change
At the beginning of June, the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) announced that from now on it would be known as the User Experience Professionals Association...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walgreen's Mobile Store Map
Walgreen's maps every store with a mobile application, but does not communicate it very well, writes Storefrontbacktalk. We worked extensively with store mapping...
From Putting People First
Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s innovation system
Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with Indian policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report by NESTA, the UK innovation agency, explores...
From Putting People First
Co-design in innovation
In a short post on the Huffington Post blog, author Soren Petersen describes how co-design – when firms and non-design users jointly design business and product...
From Putting People First
Book: This is Service Design Thinking
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases Edited by Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneider BIS Publishers, 2011 376 pages (Amazon link) This is Service...
From Putting People First
Ethical decision-making apps damage our ability to make moral choices
A recent crush of smartphone and tablet apps claim to make hard decisions easier, and the range of ethical dilemmas they can weigh in on will only increase. At...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Among Presidential Early-Career Awardees
This afternoon, the White House named 96 researchers — including a 2009 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) – as recipients of the 2012 Presidential Early Career...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 July 2012
I had a great week and a great weekend. Busy weekend with family which is the best way to spend the weekend. I’m late with today’s posts though but hopefully you...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is C/C++ worth it?
We routinely attribute the long battery life and power of our tablets and tiny laptops to better hardware. However, in many cases, this better hardware runs software...
From The Eponymous Pickle