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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 Doghouse: ADE 651
A divining rod to find explosives in Iraq: ATSC’s promotional material claims that its device can find guns, ammunition, drugs, truffles, human bodies and even...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Financial Aid
This post will talk about Harvard's financial aid program, and why it's a perfectly good thing to give money to Harvard, despite what you might read in the New.I...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science in Practice
Seen in the stairwell of the Purdue Student Health Center... Robb Cutler CSTA Past President
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Choice Perception
From O'Reilly: ' ... Individual perception of increased choice can occur while the overall choice pool is getting smallerThis gem from Whimsley makes the point...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading and Augmented Reality
An upcoming issue of Esquire plans to include a number of readable Q codes. So Engadget suggests that this is augmenting reality. It is augmenting reading, and...
From Putting People First
Reinventing British manners the Post-It way
Wired UK asked Bill Moggridge and his IDEO team to tackle the urban rage problem that is rendering the UK cityscapes ever more aggressive. “Design thinking defines...
From Putting People First
Social isolation and new technology
The Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey finds that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People
From Putting People First
Strength in science collaboration
Rory Cellan-Jones of BBC News reports on how Google Wave is proving its worth in the scientific community, as one of the new collaboration tools which scientists...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Grad School Time Management
Grad school's different from pretty much all school before it.In high school, everything was very structured, with the same classes happening every day. You always...
From Computational Complexity
Innovation
The new Innovations in Computer Science conference announced their accepted papers earlier this week including my paper with Rahul Santhanam "Bounding Rationality...
From Schneier on Security
The Problems with Unscientific Security
From the Open Access Journal of Forensic Psychology, by a whole llist of authors: "A Call for Evidence-Based Security Tools": Abstract: Since the 2001 attacks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Age of the Informavore
In the Edge: ' We are apparently now in a situation where modern technology is changing the way people behave, people talk, people react, people think, and people...
From Schneier on Security
Mossad Hacked Syrian Official's Computer
It was unattended in a hotel room at the time: Israel's Mossad espionage agency used Trojan Horse programs to gather intelligence about a nuclear facility in Syria...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buyology Inc Launches
I have mentioned the work of Martin Lindstrom here a number of times and I am working with Buyology Inc, a US - based company that seeks to connect some of theBUYOLOGY...
From The Eponymous Pickle
General Mills Innovation Portal
From Consumer Goods Technology, General Mills has created an innovation portal. " ... The new G-WIN innovation portal provides visitors with details on nearly 50...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fun Theory from Volkswagen
Via IFTF: The Fun Theory Site. Some ongoing contests for innovations in this space.' ... This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is...
From Putting People First
Answering the call to service design
Phi-Hong D. Ha, an interaction design and strategy consultant, discusses discusses the viability of the new field of service design with Steven Heller of AIGA Voice...
From Putting People First
The new fast ways of keeping in touch are driving us further apart
Email, texting and Facebook let us hide behind our computer screens instead of talking to each other. Elizabeth Day asks in The Observer if we have the tyranny...
From Putting People First
Nokia Life Tools tailored to the needs of Indonesians
Nokia Life Tools was designed to help improve the livelihood and lives of farmers, students and many people in more remote and rural areas in emerging market countries...
From Wild WebMink