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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 The Female Perspective of Computer Science
2011 Mini-Course: Games Students Made
This year's edition of my mini-course (Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls!) wound down at the end of last week. I made sure to get a copy of the girls'...
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerabilities in Online Payment Systems
This hack was conducted as a research project. It's unlikely it's being done in the wild: In one attack, Wang and colleagues used a plug-in for the Firefox web...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity Part II: The Multiple Dimensions of Implementing Equity
In a previous blog entry, I argued that we should address equity in computer science from a civil rights perspective, considering the importance of computing to...
From Apophenia
How Teens Understand Privacy
In the fall, Alice Marwick and I went into the field to understand teens’ privacy attitudes and practices. We’ve blogged some of our thinking since then but we’re...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 9
May 12 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the economic impacts of cyber attacks (previously scheduled for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vendors Mature in Predictive Modeling
Business Intelligence vendors are maturing, a report.
From Schneier on Security
Status Report: The Dishonest Minority
Three months ago, I announced that I was writing a book on why security exists in human societies. This is basically the book's thesis statement: All complex...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 9 May 2011
I had a great week last week. Long but great. I finished up with two conferences where for once I was not presenting. On the other hand the next time I go to either...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jobs at Wal-Mart
Harder to get a job at Wal-Mart than be admitted to an Ivy League school.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Killing the HS Reunion
Is Facebook killing the school reunion? In Tech Review. Would like to see fuller stats, but my own observation is that they connect many more people that might...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarty QR Tags
A good example of local QR tag usage:" ... Three local entrepreneurs are taking QR code capabilities to the next level, allowing businesses to compile valuable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazons Lending Library
Librarians react to Amazon's lending library. " ... The stakes are incredibly high for public libraries right now. Federal, state, and local budgets are tight....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Riding the Wave of E-Books
Though I was an early examiner of e-Book readers for possible training applications I an still not an every day user of the idea. Some interactions with colleagues...
From Putting People First
Natural user interfaces are all about alignment
August de los Reyes, design director of Artefact Group (formerly of Microsoft Surface), was one of the speakers at MIX11, a Microsoft organised gathering of developers...
From Putting People First
Redesigning banking with behavioral economics in mind
Neil Savage reports in the MIT Technology Review how, by studying customers and rethinking the user interface, designers find ways to make online banking more enjoyable...
From Putting People First
Augmented Reality and transitioning out of the legacy internet
Tish Shute of Ugotrade interviews Bruce Sterling ahead of the Augmented Reality Event, where Bruce is a keynote speaker. As Bruce Sterling points out, Augmented...
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR 2011!
As regular readers know, I’ve been co-organizing annual workshops on
From Putting People First