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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
MIC and MINE, a short description
I thought I should give a brief description of MIC and MINE, the topic of our Science paper. Although you're probably better off, if you're interested, looking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Sign Deployments
In Digital Signage Today: A video of cool out of home digital signage deployments from 2011. By Keith Kelsen. I am currently reading his 2010 book: Unleashing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Trumps Wal-Mart Online Sales in November
Fairly remarkable result. Technology purchases continue to move forward. Will we all be virtual in the Cloud soon?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft
Seeking to motivate the development of novel solutions to serious computer security threats, Microsoft Corp. has launched an inaugural BlueHat Prize contest, offering...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Winter "BREAK": A Time to Relax and Reenergize
Most of us look forward to our winter breaks. After all, a break in routine is almost always a good thing. Most of us are conditioned to getting up at a certain...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
One Compile A Day
A recent blog post by Ian Bogost (The Virtues of Long Compiles) has me thinking once again about the trouble with fast compiles. How would you program differently...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Welcome Molly, Future Girl Geek!
Andrew and I are delighted to announce the birth of our first child, Molly! She was born on December 16 at 5:47pm and weighed 7 lbs 3 oz. We're all doing wellView...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Makes a Brand Experience Great
Brian Collins on the delightful Hershey store. A great brand experience worth a visit. He provides some reasons why it works.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wizard Theatricals and Technology
Russell Brumfield, aka 'The Wiz', colleague who worked with us at the innovation center on aroma technologies has a new web site. He is an expert on putting on...
From Putting People First
Julian Bleecker: creating wily subversions
Steven Portigal interviews Julian Bleecker about the near future, design fiction and storytelling. Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher in...
From Putting People First
Lego is for girls
In its new focus on products for girls, Lego is using quite a lot of ethnographic research: “To develop Lego Friends, Knudstorp relaunched the same extensive field...
From Putting People First
Study: Millennials prefer sharing over ownership
The idea of sharing things instead of owning them goes against everything we’ve been taught as a consumeristic society. Those who have spent their lives “keeping...
From Computational Complexity
Game Changers
Two announcements on Monday connected to my two Alma Maters mark the changing face of universities. New York City chooses Cornell and the Technion to create new...
From Putting People First
Design for the marginalised millions
Reboot, a service design firm working in the fields of governance and international development, recently spent time with three marginalized groups in China
From Putting People First
What makes a brand experience great?
Brian Thomas Collins has made a career out of creating brand experiences, “a few of them great”. He writes: “A good brand experience is when a brand does what we...
From Putting People First
Why people adopt or wait for new technology
Jared Spool explores the key differences between
From Putting People First
Five lessons from the best interaction designs of 2011
Frog’s Robert Fabricant breaks down the themes from the 2011 Interaction Design Awards. “Technologies like cheap sensors and cloud computing are increasingly being...
From Putting People First
Video chat reshapes domestic rituals
Far-flung families are increasingly using Skype, Apple
From Putting People First
The Internet gets physical
NY Times technology reporter Steve Lohr writes on how consumer-based Internet technologies are morphing into new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health...
From Putting People First