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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 Putting People First
Talks and presentations from UX Australia
UX Australia 2013, a 4-day user experience design conference that took place in Melbourne at the end of August, has posted a lot of presentation slides and audio...
From Schneier on Security
Fokirtor
Fokirtor is a Linux Trojan that exfiltrates traffic by inserting it into SSH connections. It looks very well-designed and -constructed.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CSTA 2014 Board of Directors Nominations Open
Since this past summer I have been a member of the CSTA Board of Directors (thanks again to all of you who voted for me). It’s been an interesting and rewarding...
From Putting People First
[Book] Reputation Economics
Reputation Economics: Why Who You Know Is Worth More Than What You Have by Joshua Klein Palgrave Macmillan Publisher November 2013, 256 pages [Amazon link] Abstract...
From Putting People First
UX and the civilizing process
Kevin Simler is clearly a highly informed and engaging writer. In this essay, he argues that “UX is etiquette for computers“. “A focus on appearance is just one...
From Putting People First
Behavioral change strategy cards
Artefact Group, the Seattle based design company, has posted the first installment of its Behavior Change toolkit. “We’ve curated this selection of cards to give...
From Putting People First
Bringing sharing to Korea
Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth, gave the keynote address at the ‘Seoul Youth Hub Conference 2013, Reshaping the Way We Live’, held in Seoul, Korea...
From Putting People First
What human experiences are we missing by adopting new technologies?
The more our data is used to determine our needs and desires, the less chance there is for serendipity, writes Bronwen Clune. Are we willing to make this concession...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wizard Technical Events is Twenty Plus
Wizard Events announces that they have been around for twenty years. I have scoped out some events with them. Congratulations! Their founder Russell Brumfield...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Statistical Standards
Debating a standard:Whats in a 95 percent confidence?Is there something special about a 95 percent probability? Absolutely not; a recent paper referred to it as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Betting on Big Data
In GigaOM: Not unexpected, have been impressed by Intel's analytical work for some time. " ... Intel is using big data to improve everything from manufacturing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diagrams to Represent Competitors
New way to create infographics about your competitors. The well known petal diagram. " .... The Petal Diagram drives your business model canvas ... What the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Forays Into the Flipped Classroom
One of the buzzwords in education today is the flipped classroom. I was prompted to try out this model last year when I came down with a stomach bug that prevented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unmasking the Puppets
From New Scientist and ACM: An experimental method to unmask sock-puppets (usually phony paid commenters, reviewers or contributors) based on the way they write...
From My Biased Coin
Easy Now
In the past year or so, I've gotten reviews back on multiple papers with the complaint that the result was too simple. My interpretation of review: sure you might...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 18
November 19 Hearing: The House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the data security of the Healthcare.gov website. 1o a.m., 2318 Rayburn...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Not all citations are equal: identifying key citations automatically
Suppose that you are researching a given issue. Maybe you have a medical condition or you are looking for the best algorithm to solve your current problem. A good...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg, & Beastie Boys "Princess Machine"
This video is so beyond awesome that it deserves its own blog post. I may or may not have shed a few tears watching it. Keep on kicking butt, GoldieBlox. We need...
From Schneier on Security
Explaining and Speculating About QUANTUM
Nicholas Weaver has a great essay explaining how the NSA's QUANTUM packet injection system works, what we know it does, what else it can possibly do, and how to...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson