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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Designing for Behavior Change
In IEEE Computer, Ubifit: Designing for Behavior Change in Everyday Life. I have seen a number of lab attempts at this basic idea, this one looks good.
From Putting People First
The benefits (and challenges) of user-generated news
Matt Rhodes reflects on the role that users can play in generating news content, and the implications for us all. “I
From Putting People First
Towards tomorrow
Today work is somewhere you travel to – in the future work will come to you. So says a report attempting to work out what the offices and workplaces of 2030 will...
From Return 42;
35 Years of The UNIX Time-Sharing System
Earlier this year, people in many places wrote about the 40th anniversary of the moment Ken Thompson sat down and started to work on UNIX (which is actually inThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Versus Online Reviews
An excellent piece from Adage: Forget Twitter; Your Best Marketing Tool Is the Humble Product Review Feedback Has Influenced Design, Supplier Relations for Samsung...
From Putting People First
When I
Cory Doctorow reflects in his latest Guardian column — which is subtitled “Tales from the encrypt” — on how important it is to have a secure, long-term solution...
From Putting People First
Tools of engagement: the new practice of user-centered design
In a short essay on Core77, Robert Fabricant is not afraid to tackle some big questions: “What role did Design play in contributing to our current global crisis...
From Putting People First
Interfaces magazine: The education issue
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), is all devoted...
From Putting People First
Africa
Katrin Verclas of Mobile Active points out that the new Google/ MTN/ Grameen collaboration on mobile information services in Uganda is very expensive, and this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinkvine and DRI on Grocery Shopper Behavior
What looks to be a very interesting upcoming webinar on Shopper Behavior, see full link for registration information: Grocery Shopper Behavior Q2 2009 Digital Research...
From CSDiary
Luis von Ahn on PBS Nova scienceNow
The PBS show Nova scienceNow will have a feature on Luis von Ahn. The show will air for the first time tonight (9pm on WQED here in Pittsburgh). A preview of the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Track Federal IT Spending Online
Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra unveiled the IT Dashboard yesterday. The focus of this website is providing detail on all information technology investments...
From Putting People First
August new media gathering in Banff involves Experientia partner
Interactive Screen 0.9: The Makers (10 to 15 August 2009) is the 14th installment of the Banff New Media Institute
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - June 2008 (Vol. 52, No. 6)
Here are some items in the June issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. As always, much of the content in CACM is premium content, and free...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Study by Google
In the Google Blog: A good overview of how they use eye-tracking for online analysis.
From Apophenia
PDF Talk: "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online"
Two years ago this week, I wrote a controversial essay in an attempt to locate divisions that I was seeing play out between MySpace and Facebook. This week, at...
From Putting People First