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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
New methods for user driven innovation in the health care sector
This project of the Nordic Innovation Center aimed to draw attention to user driven innovation in the health care sector, and to develop and test methods for user...
From Putting People First
Private lives
Our personal details are used everywhere. And it’s more easy to share, mine and exploit them than ever before. This new report by the UK think tank Demos is an...
From Putting People First
World Bank, Nokia fund mobile app labs in Africa
The World Bank in partnership with mobile handset maker Nokia is set to fund the establishment of mobile applications laboratories in Africa in a move to boost...
From Putting People First
What does ethnography give you that statistics don
Qualitative, and especially observational or ethnographic, research enables us to delve much more deeply into the relationship between our firm and its product/service...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computing and the Common Core
K-12 computer science education might get a boost from a recently released document called the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). This initiative is...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier Blogging Template
Eerily accurate: Catchy one-liner ("interesting," with link): In this part of the blog post, Bruce quotes something from the article he links to in the catchy...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computing and the Common Core
K-12 computer science education might get a boost from a recently released document called the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). This initiative is...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Write Good Papers: My Slides
I agreed to give a talk to graduate students on how to write good research papers. I have posted the slides of my talk online. They are mostly taken out of my web...
From Schneier on Security
Hard Drives in Photocopy Machines
Modern photocopy machines contain hard drives that often have scans of old documents. This matters when an office disposes of an old copier. It also matters if...
From Computational Complexity
Turning down a Fields Medal is eccentric, turning down the Millennium Prize is INSANE!
NEWS on Poincare Conjecture: Recall that Perelman was given the Fields Medal in 2006 for proving the Poincare Conjecture. He declined the award. Recent news...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Carleton Celebration of Women in Science and Engineering
Ever since I attended my first Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2008, I've dreamt of having a celebration of our own. Today I released a schedule...
From Schneier on Security
Side-Channel Attacks on Encrypted Web Traffic
Nice paper: "Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: a Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow," by Shuo Chen, Rui Wang, XiaoFeng Wang, and Kehuan Zhang. Abstract.explains...
From Wild WebMink
? Monkey Business
Microsoft and FOSS, Behind the scenes ACTA, Android & less-than-free, new music and new copyright.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Tablets
Considering adaptive text: '... What if the words you're reading were watching you? Some fear for the demise of reading real books and magazines, but some tech...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where does Computer Science Belong?
To some extent Computer Science is the red headed step child of K-12 education. It just doesn
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro Industries Retail Signage Blog
Micro Industries, who contributed advanced digital signage to our innovation centers, has just added a blog to their site. A number of posts have been made, including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Things Tweet
Twitter is starting to animate things in the evolving 'Internet of Things'. Seems like a very trivial way to talk about interaction of people and things. Some interesting...
From Schneier on Security