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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
Book: Design and Anthropology
Design and Anthropology Edited by Wendy Gunn, University of Southern Denmark and Jared Donovan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Ashgate, 2012 Hardcover...
From Putting People First
Secrets about human behavior as the basis of future massive enterprises
Nir Eyal, lecturer in marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, believes secrets about human behavior, which provide insights into the way people act...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First Person: Pattie Maes on the Future of HCI
On the heels of Francis Collins’s Scientific American
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing Reading
Citia, An App that aims to reinvent reading. An intriguing notion I am exploring. " ... Some of the world
From Putting People First
Dan Ariely on why we lie, cheat, go to prison and eat cake
Dan Ariely is a professor of behavioral economics and psychology at Duke University and the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions...
From Schneier on Security
Resilience
There was a conference on resilience (highlights here, and complete videos here) earlier this year. Here's an interview with professor Sander van der Leeuw on...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 25
June 27 Hearing: The Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on changes in video technology 10...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra
Real math! Romance! Karate! That's what the back of this unusual math book promises to its readers. Odd as it may seem to teach math with a comic book, The Manga...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What if There Were No More Disasters?
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Center for Robot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companies that Reinvented Themselves
A slide show from Baseline. It is instructive to look at these examples, some very well known. I think many companies need to look at the possibility of reinventing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google as a 2 Billion $ Advertiser
In Adage: The forward motion continues. Really the first time that analytics methods have been applied to the complete process of delivering ads. Not surprising...
From Schneier on Security
Op-ed Explaining why Terrorism Doesn't Work
Good essay by Max Abrams. I've written about his research before.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Happy Unbirthday To Turing
Happy 100th birthday to our great Machine Tools provider (src) Alan Turing was born 100 years ago yesterday. Hence today is his first unbirthday since his one hundred...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links
Well I am not at ISTE this year. Sorry to miss it but in the long run it worked out as I am taking care of some important family stuff this week. If you are there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signal and Noise
An excerpt from Nassim Taleb's forthcoming book: Antifragile. On order." ... When consuming information, we strive for more signal and less noise. Intuitively...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What We Think We Know
Half of my job revolves around conducting professional development for teachers. My colleagues and I have done our best to offer quality sessions that are customized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on 3D Printing
Another good piece on the status of 3D printing and remote manufacturing in GigaOM. Some good examples of where it can be practically used. I still think its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embedding Analytics
A description of recent IBM work in embedding analytical methods in decision making. In our own experience it was always a case of how analytical methods could...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog