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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
Where innovation belongs in user-centered design
User Experience designers have a unique opportunity to become the facilitators of holistic design and the advocates of innovation, argues Jake Truemper. By combining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Groupon Clone Goes Live
Google has released its own Groupon offering. Having now used Groupon a number of times I can understand the attraction. Yet I still get the feeling Groupon is sloppily...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Exits BrainJuicer
Unilever has sold off its position in online research agency BrainJuicer, after an usually lengthy eight year investment. A quick look at BrainJuicer seems totheir...
From Putting People First
Theoretical underpinnings of social interaction design
Adrian Chan has posted what he calls a “big picture introduction” to the theory behind social interaction design. “I view social interaction design as a field that...
From Putting People First
Books on ethnography and ubiquitous computing by PARC researchers
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, a Xerox Company), a premier center for commercial innovation, announced that Dr. Margaret Szymanski, Senior Researcher and interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Photo Cruising in Google Earth
A new browsing capability has been added to Google Earth called Cruising that lets you move through posted images. Nice idea, though it is most interesting where...
From Computational Complexity
What did Banach's Wife think of the Banach-Tarski Paradox?
I recently read and reviewed The Pea and The Sun by Leonard Wapner, which is about the Banach-Tarski Paradox. Recall that the Banach-Tarski Paradox is actually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Jobs Booming
Mark Perry on booming technology jobs. Which should lead to more training, learning and transitional opportunities.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-04-21
Here's The Real Reason Apple Is Suing Samsung I think the point in this article – which echoes the central idea in Chris Anderson's book "Free" – is much more insightful...
From Schneier on Security
Declassified World War I Security Documents
The CIA has just declassified six (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) documents about World War I security techniques. (The media is reporting they're CIA documents, but the...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Are The Odds
Now I took three semesters of statistics in college. Unfortunately that was 35 years ago and not as much stuck as I would like. Embarrassing but true. So when someone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone Tracks Everywhere You Go
This got lots of attention today, in the Washington Post and in The Guardian. A file full of unencrypted GPS coordinates in your IPhone or IPad, ready to be picked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Performance Assessment
An article in the HBR: " ... In a collaborative enterprise, individual capabilities become valuable only if they contribute to the success of the whole. The standard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Robot to Staff the Production Line
A prototype robot, called FRIDA, which has some human characteristics, to staff the production line. The way I understand this, the humanoid form allows it to...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - January 2011 (Vol. 54, No. 1)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the January issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Staying Current
I have been struggling recently with issues of funding at my school for my program. I know all schools are facing funding issues so I am not alone. Currently...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Announces Microsoft-NSF Cloud Computing Teams
The NSF’s CISE Directorate signed a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft in February 2010, facilitating free access to the Windows Azure cloud computing platform...
From Wild WebMink
? Open Source Landmark
News just broke jointly from the US Department of Justice and the German Federal Cartel Office that they have directed CPTN to change the way they acquire Novell’s...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Lessons from an Early 'QR Story Quest' Prototype
I have been working on an iPhone app as I've had time over the last few months. It's essentially a platform to run what I call QR Story Quests, which are somewhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle