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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
Interactions magazine on subtlety and change
The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on subtlety and change, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko: “There are some strange changes under way in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Washing Away Bad Hair Days
In the Online WSJ: Wash Away Bad Hair Days - In the Lab as Procter & Gamble Tries to Figure Out Pantene, Fickle Shampoo Shoppers and Other Marketing Mysteries....
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography Success Story
From Brazil: the moral, of course, is to choose a strong key and to encrypt the entire drive, not just key files.
From Putting People First
Goodbye to UXnet
For nearly three years, selected Putting People First posts — 837 to be precise — have also been published on the website of UXnet. Now that UXnet is being disbanded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Play and our Brain
Reexamining aspects of the interaction of work and play. Which brought me back to Stuart Brown's book: Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and...
From Wild WebMink
? Open Source Dynamics
The Lack Of A Billion Dollar Pureplay Open Source Software Company Shows The Market Is Working Properly “just as we shouldn’t worry about the lack of “billion dollar”...
From Computational Complexity
Broader Impacts
Nicole Immorlica reports on the NSF CISE Broader Impacts Summit held last week in DC. We've all seen it. Most of us have even written one. I'm talking about that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cargill Starts Innovation Center
I am a long-time student of innovation centers, helping found one myself, and remember hearing of Cargill working in this area a few years ago. Now they are finally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Procter Fosters Green Innovation
P&G Fostering green innovation: " ... Procter & Gamble has launched a major green-innovation campaign with a goal of selling $50 billion in sustainable products...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Precision Body Scanning
We tracked the idea of body scanning for some time, for product design applications like diapers. Its been seen in fitting Jeans and in some high fashion places...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Releases Issue Brief on Military and Overseas Internet Voting
The U.S. Public Policy Council of the Association for Computing Machinery (USACM) has developed an issue brief on internet voting as it relates to military and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Panera Opens Pay as You Wish Store
This does not seem like it should work, our reaction to 'free' as it is, but the article claims it does, to be seen how much they replicate this.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Getting the Hang of iPhone Development
I needed to learn how to develop for the iPhone since the projects I want to work on next will be games for the device. This task was somewhat daunting, givenStanford...
From Schneier on Security
Space Terrorism
Space terrorism? Yes, space terrorism. This article, by someone at the European Space Policy Institute, hypes a terrorst threat I've never seen hyped before....
From Computational Complexity
The P vs NP quiz Show. NP! NP! NP!
Some random thoughts about quiz shows. THOUGHT ONE: There could be a quiz show based on P and NP. We all think that FINDING an answer is harder than VERIFYING...
From Wild WebMink
Open Core: Bad For Software Freedom
The open core model is being feted as the new default open source business model. But I assert it does not deliver and sustain the principle that delivers cost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Latency
In the CACM:, technical but interesting, The last sentence is telling, if you have to explain it, is it a good visualization? Yes, the underlying technology you...
From Schneier on Security
Baby Terrorists
This, from Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas, is about as dumb as it gets: I talked to a retired FBI agent who said that one of the things they were looking at...
From The Eponymous Pickle