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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 Schneier on Security
Hacking Cars with MP3 Files
Impressive research: By adding extra code to a digital music file, they were able to turn a song burned to CD into a Trojan horse. When played on the car's stereo...
From Putting People First
Why user experience cannot be designed
Helge Fredheim wrote a smart article in Smashing Magazine to clarify why UX cannot be designed. “Several models of UX have been suggested, some of which are based...
From Putting People First
How honest should smart devices be?
David Sherwin reflects on the frog design blog about the SXSW conference, starting from the questions raised in the contribution by Genevieve Bell (director of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rebirth of DIY Software Development
In the heady, exciting, almost wild West atmosphere of the early days of PCs it seemed like almost everyone I knew was writing software in hopes of making a little...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Mobile Updated
I see that the Google mobile App for the IPhone and iPad have been updated to include a much easier to use interface. More here. Works particularly well for searching...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Honesty of Smart Devices
How Honest should a smart device be? In Design Mind. Cultural anthropologists look at the interaction of devices, data and the expectations of human behavior...
From Putting People First
Tough Sell: Selling User Experience
Misha W. Vaughan, architect of applications user experience at Oracle USA, reflects in this interesting, small article for the February 2011 issue of the Journal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Testing Phone-as-Wallet
Some reports via Ars Technica about Google testing the NFC short range capability for SmartPhones. There were rumors about the IPhone including NFC this year,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bringing R to the Data Warehouse
Given the increasing use of R in academia, this makes much sense. Increasingly people come out of school with knowledge of the Open Source package and its application...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Moving Value of an Impression
Good recent piece in AdAge Digital. As I sit in a restaurant watching a number of people heads-down on smartphones. The attention budget we have is clearly now...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
My Great Canadian Appathon Experience
This past weekend was the Great Canadian Appathon, a 48-hour game design and development competition. I was on Team Harmony with some of the guys who helped out...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-15
Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point – Laurie Wurster – The Conversation – Harvard Business Review It is confirmed; open source has hit the top of...
From Putting People First
Experientia intern wins UNICEF 2010 INDEX design challenge
Experientia intern, Ane Eguiguren, together with her team partner Fran
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Heuristics
How do we learn? How do we develop strategy in games, in work, in our daily lives? We store information and we use information from the past to decide what will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KMart Tests AT&T Geolocated ShopAlerts
A not unexpected next step. The use of geo-fencing to understand location and react to it with push marketing. Most interesting will be how consumers buy into...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Associative Memory in Defense and Aerospace
I have mentioned Saffron Technology several times here, we examined them for associative applications in the AI space for example-based knowledge systems. Here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Reliant on GPS?
In O'Reilly Radar, an article about the increasing reliance on GPS location signals. They are a critical part of our information infrastructure. Although itare...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Easier Access to E-Books
More on E-Books from the library:"he steady growth of e-books has forced libraries to contend with how to curate and distribute materials in a way that makes them...
From Computational Complexity
Computer Science Takes Over
We live in our own research areas. I focus on computational complexity and marvel at what our field has accomplished over my over 25 years in the field as wellseries...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM