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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
Cities are being redrawn according to Google’s world view
In the second of two columns exploring the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob looks at how Google Maps is reshaping cities while Apple, Facebook and...
From Putting People First
Prism is the dark side of design thinking
In this first of two columns about the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob asks what America’s Prism surveillance program tells us about design thinking...
From Putting People First
Seoul, the Sharing City
On 20 September 2012, the Seoul Metropolitan Government disclosed its plan for promoting the “Sharing City, Seoul” project, which includes 20 sharing programs and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Compliance Success
My long time friend and correspondent John Sopko, was featured in the NYT this week concerning his government compliance work. Nice to see our government trying...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interviews: The Index
In June of 2013 I started collecting interviews with computer science educators. The plan was to highlight people doing interesting things at a wide range of schools...
From Putting People First
Book: Legible Practices by Helsinki Design Lab
The social innovation book Legible Practices aims at codifying the practises of stewardship, as exhibited by innovators who are consciously rethinking institutions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peapod and Virtual Event Shopping
Peapod's use of lunch truck style vehicles to sell items at events. The approach also reminds me ot the Schwan's model in suburban communities. We experimented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Definitions of Big Data
Via Gib Bassett. Multiple definitions are discussed, seven in all. I like concise definitions, but this is a look at all the ways that big data is being used today...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Origami Squid
Giant origami squid photo found -- without explanation -- on Reddit. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From Wild WebMink
A Change in License for Berkeley DB
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: Perhaps you didn't spot it, but last month in their new Berkeley DB release Oracle changed the license associated with...
From Schneier on Security
How Apple Continues to Make Security Invisible
Interesting article: Apple is famously focused on design and human experience as their top guiding principles. When it comes to security, that focus created a...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Earnest Games, Not Serious Games
Why is it that after ten years of Games for Change festivals guys like Ian Bogost are still making the same argument: games have the power to depict complexityGames...
From Schneier on Security
Sixth Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
On April 1, I announced the Sixth Mostly-Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest: For this year's contest, I want a cyberwar movie-plot threat. (For those who don't know...
From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog
Around this time of the year I like to post an item about this blog and its origins and purpose, so I repeat my post of 2008:This blog was established an in internal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When they Say No
A post from Beverly Jones, via ThreeJoy on what to do about professional rejection. What to do when they say no. This is rarely discussed, but it is inevitable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pantene's Twitter Program
An interview about what they are calling Pantene's Powerful Oscars Twitter Program. Had missed the details of this, but the article is a good case study of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search in an Augmented World
In SEO a number of interesting implications for search in an augmented reality world. Some obvious things here. How do you add other dimensions to the search...
From Schneier on Security
Is Cryptography Engineering or Science?
Responding to a tweet by Thomas Ptacek saying, "If you're not learning crypto by coding attacks, you might not actually be learning crypto," Colin Percival published...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Ian McTavish
For today's computer science educator interview we head north of the (US) border to Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada and talk with Ian McTavish...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP