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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
Using ethnography to improve user experience
Bonny Colville-Hyde of CX Partners has written a good introductory article on the value of ethnographic research. How can you ensure your service stands out from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Open Source Go
Google has released its internally used open source language GO. Taking a look. And here. For rapid application development and scalability.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
How to Use Social Media to Benefit Your Career
Carleton's Women in Science and Engineering's November guest speaker event last night was about How to Use Social Media to Benefit Your Career. With a generalVirtualEyeSee...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
ISMAR09: A Few Demos
There were many cool demos at ISMAR this year, and you can check out the description of them in the conference schedule. In this post, I've included a few photos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Backing Out of Google
It was not too long ago that sites were falling over themselves to get found on search engines, and particularly on Google. Now an alternative strategy is popping...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Procrastination can be your friend
Procrastination can be a serious problem leading to job loss, high anxiety and even significant psychological disability and dysfunction (according to wikipedia)...
From Putting People First
Accenture says tech-driven approach to CE innovation outdated
Consumer electronics companies must rethink the old technology-driven approach to innovation because industry convergence has made this model obsolete, claims a...
From Putting People First
How to create a long-tail user experience
Andrew Maier of UXBooth reflects on how to cultivate (or dissolve) a community, or in other words how to create a long-tail user experience. Websites are social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emulating Neurons
Interesting Mindhacks summary of a piece on brain emulation on a chip in Discovery. We were closely involved in the whole topic of 'Artificial Neural Nets' back...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-11
EC Schedules Sun Oracle Hearing For 25 November I do hope it's actually a hearing and not a kangaroo court. So far the EC spokespeople that have...
From Schneier on Security
Thieves Prefer Stealing Black Luggage
It's obvious why if you think about it: Thieves prefer to steal black luggage because so much of it looks alike. If the thief is caught red-handed by the bag's...
From Putting People First
User stories: a strategic design tool
Collaborative design methods play a key role in aligning team members towards a shared and strategic project vision. In this article Penny Hagen and Michelle Gilmore...
From Schneier on Security
Protecting OSs from RootKits
Interesting research: "Countering Kernel Rootkits with Lightweight Hook Protection," by Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, and and Peng Ning. Abstract: Kernel...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Email Netiquette
Can you remember life without email and texting? BITD B4 the EMSG, we talked, in person or on the phone, and wrote in a language that was readable. Now, most...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Persuasive Technologies
FuturePundit on Persuasive Technologies. I am also reminded of Stanford's Persuasive Technology lab, who we worked with several times. And their blog.
From My Biased Coin
Graduate School? How to Decide...
What do people think about students going to work for a year or two and then applying to graduate school? Or applying but then deferring to work for a year or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Eternal Conference Call
Nick Carr on the Eternal Conference call. I think I am still on that call. Insights on asynchrony versus synchrony in communications. -
From Computational Complexity
Multi-Agent Biological Systems and Nat Algorithms Workshop (Guest Post)
Guest Post from Aaron Sterling Multi-Agent Biological Systems and the Natural Algorithms Workshop I attended the Natural Algorithms Workshop on November...
From Schneier on Security
Is Antivirus Dead?
Security is never black and white. If someone asks, "for best security, should I do A or B?" the answer almost invariably is both. But security is always a trade...
From The Eponymous Pickle