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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
The Power Law of Terrorism
Research result #1: "A Generalized Fission-Fusion Model for the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Attacks," by Aaron Clauset and Frederik W. Wiegel. Plot the number...
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post on ICS 2010 (2 of 3)
Innovations in Computer Science 2010 (post #2) Guest Post by Aaron Sterling This is the sequel to my previous post on ICS 2010, the new theoretical computer...
From Putting People First
The New York Times on gestural interfaces
The New York Times reports on “natural” gestural interfaces in an article entitled “Giving Electronic Commands With Body Language”: “In the coming months, the likes...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu Game-Creation Tool for Kids Adapted for the PC
I love Kodu and I’ve written about it before (my Kodu blog posts) and I am regularly asked “when can I get Kodu for the PCs in my classroom?” Well now there isKodu...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Engineer Barbie?
Those wonderful people who bring you Barbie (remember the version that said “Math is hard?”) are collecting votes for Barbie's next career. There are five options...
From Schneier on Security
The Comparative Risk of Terrorism
Good essay from the Wall Street Journal: It might be unrealistic to expect the average citizen to have a nuanced grasp of statistically based risk analysis, but...
From Putting People First
Denmark Leads the way in Digital Care
Using medical devices and notebook computers, Danish patients can see doctors without leaving home, and have the information automatically logged into electronic...
From Putting People First
A MobileActive.org whitepaper on scaling mobile services for development
Katrin Verclas of MobileActive.org has published a whitepaper entitled “Scaling Mobile Services for Development: What Will It Take?”. The paper, originially commissioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on a Minority Report Interface
A Minority Report Interface shown at CES. When I see Minority Report style gestural interfaces I wonder if this kind of interaction with jump the physical process...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Engineer Barbie!
Barbie has had over 120 careers!
From Putting People First
Yahoo studies social science
Yahoo Labs is beefing up its ranks of social scientists, adding highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities...
From Putting People First
The bridge between cultures and design
Microsoft’s Joe Fletcher contributed an intriguing article on software UX in India and China on the ever more interesting Johnny Holland site: “Over roughly the...
From Putting People First
The service design era
In a two-part series, Korea’s JoongAng Daily newspaper looks at the rise of service design and the notion that modern product designers need to look well beyond...
From Schneier on Security
My Second CNN.com Essay on the Underwear Bomber
This one is about our tendency to overreact to rare risks, and is an update of this 2007 essay. I think we should start calling them the "underpants of mass destruction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ten Companies to Collaborate around Insight
From Research, an interesting concept, including competitors: ' ... Diageo, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft and Procter & Gamble are among 10 companies taking part...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metro overtakes Tesco
Metro has overtaken Tesco as the word's second largest retailer in sales.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The end of
In the late sixties and seventies, we wanted universities to become more accessible. We founded the Open University, the Universit
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 01/11/2010
Carl Zimmer: Science Writing Workshop Later This Month Carl Zimmer is teaching a one-week science writing workshop for science grad students. Martin Rees: A Level...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Actual programming with HTML and CSS (without javascript)
I usually stick with academic or research issues, but today, I wanted to have some fun. Geek fun. While W3C describes Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as a mechanism...
From Computational Complexity