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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
Sketchnotes of Ezio Manzini at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
This past Monday evening, on an unseasonably warm night in Chicago, sustainability expert Ezio Manzini gave a thought-provoking lecture at the School of the Art...
From Putting People First
On Culture and Interaction Design: an interview with Genevieve Bell
Recently Dianna Miller had a chance to talk to Genevieve Bell, anthropologist and researcher, and the director of Intel Corporation
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Delicacy of Anonymity Online
How services like Google Analytics make it hard to be anonymous online. Anonymity can be just a matter of choice, or even a life or death thing. Also some suggestions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why is Angry Birds Compelling?
Understanding why a particular game like Angty Birds is so compelling. And how the aspects of the game might be repeated. " ... carefully scripted expansion...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Khalid Al-Kofahi on Combining Advanced Search Technology and Human Expertise in Legal Research
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling Businesses
Thinking this yet a step forward .... Concept mapping for company processes can be seen as a simplified approach to Business Process Management (BPM). Which seeks...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Talk to your DARPA Program Manager!
On November 15, seven University of Washington faculty members from Biology, Bioengineering, and Computer Science & Engineering were privileged to share a 2-hour...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Microsoft Talk Artificial Intelligence
An optimistic view of the future of AI. It is nice to see two big players talking this. " ... Google and Microsoft don't share a stage often, being increasingly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Big App On Campus
Microsoft announced a Windows Phone development contest for college/university students in the US (sorry about both the US only and the 18+ only
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Using Corporate Advertising to Promote CS Education
I've attended quite a few Computer Science conferences over the years including many years of SIGCSE and the past two years of the K-12 Workshop at the Grace Hopper...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Camouflage
Some squid can switch their camouflage instantly. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beauty Brands and Emotions
Former colleague Donna Sturgess, president of Buyology Inc. Talks about the the large emotional component of beauty brands. " ... Donna Sturgess, president...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shop - Scan - Buy
ShopSavvy brings instant scan and buy to mobile shoppers. This connects with my recent post about Amazon delivering a scan and price check application. Of course...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Collection of Kinect in Education Links
Thanks to Johnny Kissko (9 Excellent Programming Resources for Kinect) I recently discovered Ray Chambers who is
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Google
From our friends at The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Wired Campus Blog: Anyone can now track his or her citations via Google Scholar. The free citation service...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bezos
Fascinating interview with Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. Their delivery this week of a budget tablet will create a new more focused channel for products. I have...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Event Idea: The Truth About Women in Science and Engineering
I recently came up with what I thought was interesting event idea. Our Dean of Engineering had expressed some interest in CU-WISE coming up with an idea for aThe...
From Computational Complexity
Short Bits
Because some things are too long to tweet and too short for their own blog post. What's the algorithm for the perfect sushi? Enjoy it with some cool refreshing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog