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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 Wild WebMink
? Eric Whitacre at Union Chapel
We went a one-off this concert with composer and conductor Eric Whitacre at Union Chapel in London last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. This official video is just...
From Schneier on Security
Password Security at Linode
Here's something good: We have implemented sophisticated brute force protection for Linode Manager user accounts that combines a time delay on failed attempts,...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Let us abolish page limits in scientific publications
As scientists, we are often subjected to strict page limits. These limits made sense when articles were printed on expensive paper. They are now obsolete. But we...
From The Noisy Channel
Noah Iliinsky: Tech Talk on Designing Data Visualizations
Note: This post was written by Yael Garten, a Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn. Yael joined Linkedin in 2011, where she leads our mobile analytics team. She previously...
From Putting People First
Brains, Behavior and Design
Brains, Behavior and Design is a group of IIT Institute of Design students appling findings from the fields of cognitive psychology and behavioral economics to...
From Computational Complexity
Some Announcements
STOC early registration deadline is Thursday. This year STOC will have both tutorials and workshops and its second poster session. Hope to see you all there. The...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Bringing Computer Science and Journalism Together
Computer scientist — and 2009 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow)
From Schneier on Security
Stolen Phone Database
This article talks about a database of stolen cell phone IDs that will be used to deny service. While I think this is a good idea, I don't know how much it would...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Better Learning Through Movement
And fun as well. Recently a co-worker sent me a link to some videos that were done by the Houston Independent School District about the pilot program they are running...
From Putting People First
Applying behavioral economics and cognitive psychology to the design process
Artefact is, like Experientia, a UX design consultancy that is strongly inspired by cognitive and behavioral modeling, and uses all kinds of inputs from cognitive...
From Putting People First
Tricia Wang on the geography of trust in social networks (video)
Tricia Wang is a cultural sociologist interested in understanding how people use digital tools in their day to day lives. In her talk at the Lift 12 conference,...
From Putting People First
The future of connected cars: what Audi is driving towards
Richard MacManus writes on ReadWriteWeb that the next generation of in-car apps will be about providing “smart” services, such as taking some of the cognitive load...
From Putting People First
Do walled gardens offer a better user experience?
In an extensive article by Charles Arthur, technology editor of The Guardian, on the rise of walled gardens (apps, social networks) on the net, we read this quote...
From Putting People First
Nest Thermostat: User-centered design is the best marketing
I enjoyed the final paragraph of the Fast.CoDesign article on the second generation Nest Thermostat: “Here
From Putting People First
The future of money in a mobile age
Within the next decade, smart-device swiping will have gained mainstream acceptance as a method of payment and could largely replace cash and credit cards for most...
From Putting People First
The Smart City starts with you
Wired UK has published a guest post by Usman Haque, founder of Pachube.com and director at Haque Design + Research and CEO of Connected Environments, where he argues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotics Challenge for Disaster Response
A very detailed DARPA challenge for robotics in the area of disaster response. In IEEE spectrum. I have been surprised that more has not been done in this context...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers and Society
See correspondent Lisa Kaczmarczyk's book:Computers and Society: Computing for Good contains in-depth case studies with extensive, thought provoking end of chapter...
From Putting People First
Wearable devices: the next battleground for the platform wars
Wearable devices, or
From The Eponymous Pickle