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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
Our misguided focus on brand and user experience
If there is a future for designers and marketers in big business, it lies not in brand, nor in
From Computational Complexity
Who Pays for Trips?
If Professor Alice at Faber College visits Dr. Bob at the University of Southern North Dakota, who should cover Alice's expenses? It depends on who does the asking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovering Patterns in Data
Blog discovered: Neoformix: Discovering and Illustrating patterns in Data. Some interesting visualization examples, including most recently, exploring the 9/11...
From Putting People First
Four key principles of mobile user experience design
In a long article on Boxes and Arrows, Dakota Reese Brown suggests an alternative view of the mobile space based on principles rather than isolated tactics. “Prior...
From Putting People First
IDEA 2009: Social and experience design
The IDEA Conference took place in Toronto on September 15-16, with a focus on social experience design. Boxes and Arrows, in collaboration with the IA Institute...
From Putting People First
Designing the online shopping experience
Two articles in UX Magazine look at ways of improving the retail user experience online: Mind the gap Which types of brands have the greatest opportunity to improve...
From Schneier on Security
Cyberwarfare Policy
National Journal has an excellent article on cyberwar policy. I agree with the author's comments on The Atlantic blog: Would the United States ever use a morereport...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unitasking Rampant
Do we need the twitterpeek?. A unitasking individual piece of hardware? I agree with BusinessWeek it's a case where less is less.
From Return 42;
Is Technology Easy?
In the 1993 paper The early history of Smalltalk, published in the ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28, Issue 3, Alan Kay wrote: A twentieth century problem is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Markets from Communities
From Josh Bernoff in Groundswell: A number of interesting case studies about doing market research more economically and accurately by using communities of your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of TV
A good catch up piece on technologies, incentives and directions re this topic. What will the consumer engagement media-mix of the very near future be? ... The...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - November 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 11)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the November issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Large Company Sustainability
I was recently asked what P&G was doing in the area of sustainability. Their positions, commitments, reports, video and background information can be found here...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Take Two Approach
I was talking to a gentleman the other day who has a successful mentorship program in his line of business. I was amazed at the simplicity of his model. It started...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Impact of Technology in the Classroom
In August, a Communications of ACM article had me thinking about whether technology has become a need in education. Today, a friend of a friend is going to interview...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 30
December 3 Meeting: The Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee will meet 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 490 L'Enfant Plaza S.W., Washington...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Learning and the Social Web: A Call for Papers (new deadline)
We have extended the deadline of our call for papers on Learning and the Social Web (http://socialwebjetwi.info/). It is a special issue for the Journal of Emerging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning in Turbulence
Just brought to my attention: Winning in Turbulence, by Darrell Rigby. On my reading list. Excerpts on the Bain site. ' ... Turbulence creates extraordinary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guilt Trips
In Martin Lindstrom's latest newsletter: Fighting Back Against Shoppers' Guilt. A piece about how ' ... Guilt has always been part of the shopping experience.....
From Schneier on Security