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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
Glen Cove conference on strategic design and public policy
Ever keen to expand the boundaries of their practices, design professionals have been moving in the direction of public policy for some years, writes Lucy Kimbell...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Career Outlook for CS Students
The CACM web site has an interesting interview with Joel Adams (Joel Adams Discusses the Career Outlook for CS Students) Joel Adams
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Studies World Cup Access
Wharton WIMI studies how fans access the World Cup via ESPN: " ... ESPN, which is televising the World Cup, is using the soccer tournament as a living laboratory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm, Mattel Push Augmented Reality
It makes sense for a toy manufacturer to look at this. it is well known that some smartphone game Apps are very big profit makers for well known toy companies....
From Schneier on Security
Vigilant Citizens: Then vs. Now
This is from Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself, published in 1950: Of course, millions of us will go through our lives never seeing a spy or a saboteur...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Temporal Analytics Engine
Wim Van de Velde points me the Recorded Future Site, which I had missed. What they call a temporal analytics engine. Not descriptive enough as a title. Just exploring...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography Failure Story
By Russian spies: Ricci said the steganographic program was activated by pressing control-alt-E and then typing in a 27-character password, which the FBI found...
From Putting People First
Beyond findability
The Spring 2010 issue of the Journal of Information Architecture is now available. In one of the articles “Beyond Findability“, Luigi Spagnolo, Davide Bolchini,...
From Computational Complexity
Is this solution cheating?
Consider the following problem: A hole is drilled through the center of a sphere. The cylinder-with-caps is removed. The length of the removed cylinder (itHere...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-01
Project Harmony looks to improve contribution agreements I hope to be able to participate in this activity, if only to ensure that it does not become a validation...
From Putting People First
Kuniavsky designing read-write web-created things
This fast approaching era of desktop manufacturing via advanced MakerBots and other 3D printers is in part why ThingM co-founder Mike Kuniavsky runs an annual conference...
From Putting People First
The cities we need
The Grattan Institute, an Australian independent public policy think-tank, has published a new report, entitled “The Cities We Need“, that aims to set an agenda...
From Putting People First
Why social experience is the future of online content
“For all of the attention on social networking, there are few social media experiences that match the fun of hanging out together with friends in person,” writes...
From Putting People First
Design research at LIFT conference
At the beginning of May, frog design partnered with the Lift conference in Geneva to conduct design research on the conference itself to understand what was working...
From Putting People First
The product of a healthy relationship
The relationship between researchers and product designers can be a rocky one. Paul Golden looks at how market research can make sure it promotes creative thinking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Acquires Woot
In a cool move Amazon has bought the geeky surplus store Woot. Will operate as an independent subsidiary. Although I have not been there for a while Woot was known...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - June 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 6)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the June issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Celebrates Maps Mashups
Its only been five years since the launch of the Google Maps API. ReadWriteWeb celebrates with an article about it, and points to their map of mashups. Have now...
From Schneier on Security