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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
Review: Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell
Michiel De Lange has published a very long and somewhat critical review of the book Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing by Paul...
From Putting People First
Good mobile experiences unfold and progressively reveal their nature
Successful PC and mobile experiences are built on fundamentally different conceptual models and leverage different psychological functions of the user, argues Rachel...
From Putting People First
Art that interacts if you interface
The New York Times reviews Paola Antonelli’s “Talk to Me” show at the Museum of Modern Art. “At its best
From Putting People First
Digital fluency: empowering all students
Liz Losh writes on DMLCentral on an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach to
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Minimizes Management Meddling
By Michael Schrage in HBR Blogs: Was somewhat both proud of and surprised by this revelation. I saw some of both behaviors. And still think more could have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Children Play Like Scientists
In Wired, the results of a study. They appear to isolate variables in play. But is the scientific method all that influences scientists? Or Children?
From Schneier on Security
ShareMeNot
ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on for preventing tracking from third-party buttons (like the Facebook "Like" button or the Google "+1" button) until the user actually...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Live Right Now: NSF Announcing New Innovation Corps
In just a few minutes, during a special session of the National Science Board — and before a large gathering of senior leadership from the National Science Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Groupon Work with Retail
In Progressive Grocer:" ... Supervalu, Inc.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Shares Data with Nielsen
After being out of the process for a long time, it is reported that Wal-Mart will start sharing data with Nielsen again. We were always told that Wal-Mart did not...
From Computational Complexity
The Problems of LaTeX
By request a post that may create the biggest backlash since I declared myself Unix free. \begin{rant} LaTeX is a great system for mathematical documents...for...
From Schneier on Security
Data Privacy as a Prisoner's Dilemma
Good analysis: Companies would be better off if they all provided meaningful privacy protections for consumers, but privacy is a collective action problem for...
From Putting People First
Are we becoming too analytical?
Or, why did Google PowerMeter fail? In his latest post, James Landay questions whether over-analysis of data gets in the way of designing a product that truly understands...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Innovative Educator Forum Judge Workshop
For some competitions one selects a bunch of smart people, hands them a rubric and says
From Wild WebMink
? Contribute To The LibreOffice Conference
I am on the Programme Committee for the upcoming LibreOffice Conference in Paris, and as a consequence I get to see the stream of paper submissions. There have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Bubble?
Is social media also a bubble? See here for the graph. I do want just one simple social thing to deal with.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Another Smart Cart
SK Telecom delivers another grocery smart cart prototype. This one can sync from a smartphone. That by itself is a very good idea, decreasing the cost and complexity...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
A Techie's Vacation
My husband and I are taking a 3+ week vacation to the east coast of Canada this August, and because we're both computer geeks, there's no doubt we'll be lugging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Mind-Mapping to Write Blogs and Articles
I am a big proponent of mind mapping. Have used it for years. It is a great discipline, I use it on my laptop, tablet and smartphone. I can build maps and then...
From The Eponymous Pickle