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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
CS Education in the States
If you've read a recent piece I co-wrote in Communications of the ACM (membership required), you know that the States largely drive education decisions in the...
From My Biased Coin
UC President Interview
Luca Trevisan points to this NY Times Magazine interview with UC president Mark Yudof. Is it just me, or is this guy just completely tone deaf to the current situation...
From Putting People First
Design and gender: going beyond shrink it and pink it
Femme Den is a small internal cadre of designers of Smart Design — the company that was responsible for the OXO Good Grips kitchen tools and the Flip Mini Digital...
From Putting People First
The city is a battlesuit for surviving the future
Matt Jones, design director at Berg in London, has published a piece in Future Metro which Bruce Sterling “would like to call ‘the greatest design-fiction writing...
From Putting People First
Intel describes TV of the future
The world’s biggest chip maker predicts that by 2015 there will be 12 billion devices capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content. The audience...
From Putting People First
Do you want that on your permanent record?
In his Wall Street Journal De Gustibus column, Eric Felten describes Total Recall, a Microsoft project that will archive every detail of our daily lives. “A certain...
From Putting People First
Changing Behaviour
Changing Behaviour is a project that aims to support change in energy use and energy services. They do so by applying social research on technological change to...
From Putting People First
Users
The Nordic Innovation Centre just published a report on the role of user-driven innovation in the growing Nordic sports equipment industry. Not only on how users...
From Putting People First
Yahoo looks to improve search experience
The Mercury News reports on how Yahoo believes it can build its search audience by focusing on the user “experience,” rather than viewing search as a raw data query...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Sketchup
New Sketchup version includes a number of useful changes. Remarkable package used briefly for a project.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Trends in BI
Good overview piece:Five Trends Changing the Face of BI Predictive analytics, agile development, user-centric business intelligence and improvements in visualization...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 20-Foot Squid Caught in the Gulf of Mexico
First one sighted in the Gulf since 1954: The new specimen, weighing 103 pounds, was found during a preliminary survey of the Gulf during which scientists hope...
From Computational Complexity
Inspiring a Love of Math
A reader writes I come to you by way of your computational complexity blog. I get that there is some really good stuff there, but frankly don’t understand about...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Inducing Innovation with Prizes
The awarding of the $1 million Netflix Prize this week reopens an interesting bigger question:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aggregating the Conversation
Godin's Squidoo 'Brands in Public' aims to aggregate the conversation, then you pay for some control. Examining. Site here:' ... Brands in Public is a collection...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-25
UK government ignoring own rules on open source With Tom Watson gone and his former staff apparently reassigned, this comes asGovernment...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-25
UK government ignoring own rules on open source With Tom Watson gone and his former staff apparently reassigned, this comes asGovernment...
From Putting People First