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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
When professionals get culture shock
Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase reflects on the issue of culture shock, a condition that can even affect professionals whose livelihood depends on being able...
From Putting People First
The fable of the user-centred designer
David Travis has written a fable that “follows a young man’s journey as he discovers the three secrets of user-centred design”. “Many years ago, I read a book by...
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 12/25/2009
Let’s make language exams useful « Secret Blogging Seminar David Speyer has what looks like a viable proposal for crowdsourcing translation of mathematical texts...
From The Noisy Channel
Recovering From Being Hacked
I discovered today that I’d been hacked earlier this week by a spam link injection attack. I’m still not sure how it happened, but I believe I’ve cleaned out all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On-Line Retailers and Neuromarketing
An NYT article on the use of NM concepts in online retailing. Includes quotes from Martin Lindstrom:
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Consumer Power of Price Checking
Herb Sorensen in Retailwire writes about mobile price checking. Some further thoughts of my own: I saw a number of price checking devices installed at a local retailer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lowering Your Information Standards
Tom Davenport makes an interesting point and expands on it: ' ... As information grows in quantity, consumers of it are willing to accept lower quality. I call...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mini-Course: Round Three
I'm super excited to be doing round three of my week-long mini-course for grade eight girls 'Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls!' this May. I've been thinking...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-24
Get Involved with Open Source For America Great new video about OSFA, well worth passing on. (tags: OpenSource ...
From Schneier on Security
Intercepting Predator Video
Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Iraqi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Analytics
Eric Siegel on the future of analytics in the SAS COM Blog.-
From My Biased Coin
New Result : Tight Asymptotic Bounds for the Deletion Channel with Small Deletion Probabilities
Posting will be light over winter break, in part because so little is going on, but more because I'm busy working on papers for upcoming deadlines. I'll describe...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Holiday Reading Corner
Ah, the holiday break. Time to relax, catch up on sleep, and perhaps read a book or two. If you are looking for some interesting reading related to CS education...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Networks
The value of understanding a dynamic system as a quantifiable network with a distinct architecture has always intrigued me. Very early on we constructed networks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Honest with Yourself
On the consequences of fooling yourself. With implications for private label purchasing decisions?
From Schneier on Security
Plant Security Countermeasures
The essay is about veganism and plant eating, but I found the descriptions of plant security countermeasures interesting: Plants can
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft bliink Contest in the State of Illinois
I made mention of this announcement when it was first made in October. I hope that if you are at a high school in Illinois you know about this and are getting involved...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-23
Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment Excellent and typically thorough treatment of copyright assignment from Michael Meeks. I'm...
From The Eponymous Pickle