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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
Write-up on Michele Visciola’s talk at iHub, Kenya
Michele Visciola, President and Founding Partner of Experientia, gave a talk at iHub in Nairobi, Kenya, last week (see also this earlier post). The aim of the talk...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Search Engines Can’t Replace Teachers (yet?)
My programming students are working on some projects these days. I have them working of teams of two to four. As they work I am listening to their conversations...
From Putting People First
Talking Design With Intel’s Todd Harple
We cordially invite you to Experientia’s inaugural “Talking Design” evening. On Wednesday May 8th, at 18.00, we are excited to have Intel’s Todd Harple speaking...
From My Biased Coin
A Boy and His Atom
Some researchers at IBM are so good at playing with atoms, they decided to make a movie (called A Boy and His Atom), by moving atoms. Cool stuff. Computer science...
From Schneier on Security
Details of a Cyberheist
Really interesting article detailing how criminals steal from a company's accounts over the Internet. The costly cyberheist was carried out with the help of nearly...
From Wild WebMink
Beware Zombie Legislation
I’m pleased Nick Clegg has blocked the Communications Data Bill, but if we’re to avoid the same zombie bill coming back in the night for our brains we need to fill...
From Putting People First
London exhibition explores alternative Britain governed by four extreme lifestyle tribes
Belching cars made of skin and bones, nuclear-powered trains in the shape of mountains and arrow-like formations of joined recumbent bicycles are just some of the...
From Putting People First
UK ‘Nudge Unit’ to be privatised
The UK’s Behavioural Insights Team – known as the “nudge unit” – will join with a commercial partner and become the first policy unit to be spun out of Whitehall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chromebook can be a Kiosk
We examined kiosks for retail. It is surprising the number of alterations that have to be made to deliver a secure and easily usable kiosk based on a PC or laptop...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Very First Webpage shared today on it’s 20th Anniversary!
Twenty years ago today (April 30, 2013), physicists at CERN opened the World Wide Web to everyone with a simple web page. The actual page is long gone, but CERN...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waiting for Strong AI
Back in the 80s we were waiting, and expecting the emergence of Strong AI. Generalized intelligent machines, that would be as intelligent as a human, and do things...
From Computational Complexity
Computer Assisted Proofs- still controversial?
Kenneth Appel, of Appel-Haken Four Color Theorem Fame, died recently. See here for an obit. In 1972 I read that the four-color theorem was an open problem.here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Web Site Launched 20 Years Ago
CERN published the first Web site twenty years ago. Seems like a much longer time ago. CWorld reports on the event. Consider how much it has changed how we work...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Sexiest Job in the 21st Century
According to the Harvard Business Review and reported in the New York Times data science is "the sexiest job in the 21st century." Experts expect that this hot...
From Wild WebMink
Components Becoming Major Source Of CVEs
Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: Earlier today Sonatype released the results of their annual survey. The survey looks at the extent to which developers...
From Schneier on Security
The Importance of Backups
I've already written about the guy who got a new trial because a virus ate his court records. Here's someone who will have to redo his thesis research because...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Problem Framing Through Behavioral Heuristics
This sounds much like what we tried to do when building simulation systems with agent models. But it seems different when I read the abstract. Once you have found...
From Putting People First
Developing digital books with user-centred design
Digital books are software. The more interactive the experience, the more complex that software is to develop – and the greater the risk of creating a digital product...
From Putting People First
Exploring Problem-framing through Behavioural Heuristics
Article published in the April 2013 issue of the International Journal of Design By Dan Lockton, David J. Harrison, Rebecca Cain, Neville A. Stanton, & Paul Jennings...
From The Eponymous Pickle