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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 Apophenia
when teachers and students connect outside school
In my last entry, I made a comment about the value of "cool" teachers interacting with students on social network sites. I received some push-back from non-educators...
From Putting People First
Selling user experience
Daniel Szuc is a principal consultant at a Apogee Usability Asia Ltd, based in Hong Kong, and previously worked on a usability team for Telstra Australia. When...
From Putting People First
Is design the preeminent protagonist in user experience?
The latest issue of Ubiquity, a web-based publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), contains a fascinating account by Phillip Tobias on the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligence Blog
Former compatriot and correspondent, now co-entrepreneur and my small business consultant, Stan Dyck now has a blog. He is a very good researcher and writer.'...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Endings and Beginnings
Hurray! It's over! Another school year in the books. AP and IB testing are complete. Final exams are submitted, printed and ready to administer. It's time...
From The Noisy Channel
NYT Appoints a
What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...
From The Noisy Channel
NYT Appoints a
What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing for Nice People
Pamela Slim writes about Marketing for Nice People. ' ... it is incredibly difficult to strike a perfect balance between sharing information openly, without a....
From Putting People First
President of Icann about the net
Dr Paul Twomey, president of the internet admin body Icann, talks about the net’s potential for change. “The mobile global internet is growing quickly to connect...
From Putting People First
Hi-tech aims to improve lifestyle
BBC technology correspondent Mark Ward reports on a research project that uses Facebook, mobile phones, and energy meters to nudge people into living healthier...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter CIO On Top 50 List
Worked with a number of Procter CIOs. It is a near tradition that they make the Informationweek top 50 list. Filippo Passerini is the latest, having now been'...
From Putting People First
You
Steve Calde, a principal design consultant at Cooper, writes in Cooper Journal on the implications of designing for first time use. “A person is a first-time user...
From Putting People First
Reflecting on everyware, the era of ubiquitous computing
Joe Lamantia, experience architect and strategist at MediaCatalyst, has recently been writing a column for UXmatters. Entitled “Everyware - designing for the ubiquitous...
From Putting People First
The lamp posts on Brick Lane
Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slow and Under Pressure and a self-proclaimed proponent of the Slow Movement, is the writer of the latest contribution to Vodafone’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Branding Means Better Search?
Intriguing article about Microsoft's new search engine, provisionally called 'Bing'. Have not seen it or tried it. Regardless if it is better, they believe that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Laptop per Child Vision
I see that the article below, from the CACM, is now available in full text. Good update. Followed this from within the enterprise since 2005, hoping we could participate...
From Putting People First
Focusing design solutions on social problems
Alice Rawsthorn of The New York Times has published an article on social design and service innovation: “When Ritt Bjerregaard became lord mayor of the city of...
From Putting People First
John Maeda designs technology
On Fora.TV you can find a video of RISD president John Maeda’s talk at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 expo, where he talks about people participation processes at RISD. Watch...
From Putting People First
John Thackara on clean growth
Design Innovation Scotland has published a white paper by John Thackara, entitled Clean Growth: From Mindless Development to Design Mindfulness. It’s the first...
From Putting People First