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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 History of One-Time Pads and the Origins of SIGABA
Blog post from Steve Bellovin: It is vital that the keystream values (a) be truly random and (b) never be reused. The Soviets got that wrong in the 1940s; as a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Most Important Math Problem of Our Time
In the CACM: The Status of the P Versus NP ProblemIt's one of the fundamental mathematical problems of our time, and its importance grows with the rise of powerful...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What is CSTA?
The Computer Science Teachers Association has come a long way since its fledgling days after its founding in 2005. The area I am most proud of is our membership...
From Putting People First
The value of information
Oliver Reichenstein, a Tokyo-based information architect, explores the value of information: “While producing information costs money, information as such doesn
From Putting People First
Eva Hornecker on tangible interaction
Eva Hornecker explains on interaction-design.org the evolving concept of Tangible Interaction. “Broadly, Tangible Interaction encompasses user interfaces and interaction...
From Putting People First
Exploring first-time internet use via mobiles in a South African women
Jonathan Donner, a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India, has submitted a paper — together with Shikoh Gitau and...
From Putting People First
Donald Norman on products as services and experiences
Donald Norman’s latest column for Interactions Magazine explores systems thinking and service design. “A product is actually a service. Although the designer, manufacturer...
From Putting People First
Experientia
One of our staff members, senior designer Luca Troisi, worked previously in the yachting industry and has not forgotten those roots when he joined Experientia....
From Return 42;
Playing with Devver
Testing can be a pain. At least in Ruby on Rails. That is, not only writing tests can be tedious, but also running tests can consume sometimes ridiculous amounts...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Toward author-centric science
Too many research papers in Computer Science are nonsense: they convey no worthy message. Yet, they pass a Turing test of sort: at a glance, they are indistinguishable...
From Schneier on Security
The Exaggerated Fears of Cyber-War
Good article, which basically says that our policies are based more on fear than on reality. On cyber-terrorism: So why is there so much concern about
From Wild WebMink
Sun's Bloggers' License
As a follow-up to my posting on Monday about the new co-ownership license Sun has offered to all the bloggers on blogs.sun.com, I thought it would be good to post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pressure to Limit Behavioral Targeting
Comments on a recent NY Times article. I see the point, this is a common startup direction. Clearly more balance needs to be had between targeting and privacy concerns...
From My Biased Coin
ESA Plans
I'll be headed to ESA this weekend. My talk is first thing Monday morning, so I'll be there sometime Sunday. If anyone wants to get together for dinner Sunday...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GMail Outage
I experienced the Gmail outage here in NYC yesterday. I agree with several pundits that there was no easy way to tell what was going on. Had to go to a number of...
From Putting People First
The architect of experience
Paula Wallace, president of the Savannah College of Art and Design, interviews Peter Fossick, who is the coordinator of a new program in service design at the college...
From Putting People First
The rise of the super fakes
What happens when a large % of your target market wants your brand cachet but is happy with a decent-enough quality fake? Nokia
From Putting People First