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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 My Biased Coin
Thanks, Yale Daily News!
Harvard's CS50 class is nicely lauded -- by a column in the Yale Daily News. First, the Harvard-centric stuff:The good news is that there
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introverts and Innovation
In the HBR Blogs: Although Myers Briggs tests are not technically meant to label introvert-extrovert, we did experiment with it broadly to help people understand...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Advertising Exploding
In AdAge: A good opinion piece predicting the continuing increase of using social media to engage. Suggestion is that a battle will ensue between digital media...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dissolvable Packaging
An experimental topic for some time. It always requires a second protective layer for making sure that encounters with water or high moisture don't cause problems...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 23
The House is expected to consider four cybersecurity bills on Thursday and Friday, April 26 and 27. April 24 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NASA Holds International Space Apps Challenge;Preliminary Results Posted
Last October, we noted that
From Computational Complexity
CS in the Sunshine State
As many of you've heard the Dean of Engineering at the University of Florida is planning deep cuts to the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Issues IGERT Solicitation Focused on Big Data
The National Science Foundation (NSF) last week issued a new solicitation under its
From Schneier on Security
Alan Turing Cryptanalysis Papers
GCHQ, the UK government's communications headquarters, has released two new -- well, 70 years old, but new to us -- cryptanalysis documents by Alan Turing. The...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 April 2012
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Data Visualization
From the Tableau Software Blog: On the future of data visualization. Well put, but in addition being able to interact with a visualization so it can fit both...
From Putting People First
Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users
Social media in particular has inexorably changed the world, driving openness and fear
From Putting People First
The flight from conversation
Sherry Turkle is a psychologist and professor at M.I.T., says we use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just...
From Putting People First
Rise of smart mobile services
Saar Gur, general partner at Charles River Ventures, discusses a new generation of smart mobile services, which provide user information in the background to make...
From Putting People First
From print to iPad: designing a reading experience
UX consultant Harry Brignull spoke at UX London 2012 about the design of The Week magazine
From Putting People First
Watching every click you make
Henry Alford, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, wonders when in the digital age, did privacy become a choice rather than a given. “When Facebook bought Instagram...
From Putting People First
Trust and the future of mobile money
Even within the technology community, 33% agreed with the below statement: “People will not trust the use of near-field communications devices and there will not...
From Putting People First
Internet must be a web not for the consumer, but for the citizen
In an editorial, The Guardian argues for an open web: “To protect the web’s founding principle is a matter of what Tim Berners-Lee would call citizen vigilance,...
From Putting People First