Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Fear and Overreaction
It's hard work being prey. Watch the birds at a feeder. They're constantly on alert, and will fly away from food -- from easy nutrition -- at the slightest movement...
From Computational Complexity
Amir Pnueli (1941-2009)
Amir Pnueli, an expert in temporal logic and program verification who won the 1996 Turing Award, passed away Monday from a brain hemorrhage. His colleague Lenore...
From Putting People First
The Fuzzy Boundary: Four products that are also services
Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM was invited to speak at Kimiko Ryokai’s Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces class at UC Berkeley yesterday, where he discussed...
From Putting People First
Three DMI articles worth reading
Via the DMI November 2009 Newsletter, I came across a number of articles that are worthwhile exploring: What the Hell Have We Done to Design? (Really Thinking about...
From Putting People First
Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario
Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario Rohit Singh Overseas Development Institute, 2009 The number of mobile subscribers globally is estimated...
From Putting People First
The future of interface design
David Leggett provides on his UX Booth blog an overview of what the future of interface design has to offer. He covers various upcoming interface technologies such...
From Putting People First
Understanding users of social networks
Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Assistant Adds Store Flyers
Recently I mentioned the IPhone Shopper, a store shopping list and aisle context application. I have done some additional explorations with the idea. In a recent...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Are Your Students Good Problem Solvers, or Good Mimics?
Recently the topic of Computational Thinking has risen to the forefront of discussions of what our students should learn. Ignoring the facts that computational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How the Brain Reveals Why we Buy
From Sciam, " ... an excerpt from Mindfield: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World by Lone Frank, to be released in the U.S. November 10 ... " A good lay introduction...
From Putting People First
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at Visualizar, Madrid
On Friday 13 (!) November, Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be one of the speakers at Visualizar’09, an international seminar on public data visualisation...
From Schneier on Security
Zero-Tolerance Policies
Recent stories have documented the ridiculous effects of zero-tolerance weapons policies in a Delaware school district: a first-grader expelled for taking a camping...
From Computational Complexity
Really Liked Bertinoro- Ramsey Thing
(Reminder: STOC Deadline Thursday Nov 5, 7:00PM, Eastern: link.) After yesterday's post about RaTLoCC 2009 (Ramsey Theory in Logic, Combinatorics, and Complexity)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumers More Resourceful
In Supermarket News: Kraft Foods says that consumers are becoming more resourceful. Although I have always viewed myself as resourceful, I have found myself becoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Modeling at Transaction Level
Well done - " ... a case study of a simple
From My Biased Coin
Conference Reviews
I promised at some point to get back to discussing the reviewing process for two conferences I am currently on the PC for, NSDI and LATIN. Since I happily just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Muscle Interface
A 3D pointing interface without any mouse, using EMG sensors. Another attempt at using something other than a dongled mouse for interaction. I tested a foot-mouse...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Terrorists by Smelling Fear
Really: The technology relies on recognising a pheromone - or scent signal - produced in sweat when a person is scared. Researchers hope the ''fear detector''...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-03
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model Important to understand how this model works as it will be at the core of theGoogle...
From Putting People First