Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 Schneier on Security
Another Essay about Liars and Outliers
The Montréal Review asked me to write an essay about my latest book. Not much that regular readers haven't seen before.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 February 2013
School vacation week for me this week. Trying to get some work done around the house, relax a bit, grade a bunch and of course plan for the rest of the semester...
From Putting People First
Isobel Demangeat on the UX of augmented reality
A bit of an older talk, but still quite interesting: Isobel Demangeat, UX researcher at Qualcomm Corporate R&D Cambridge (UK), spoke at MEX in December 2011 on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Show Me the Numbers
I have been fully reading Stephen Few's book: Show me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten. (Second Edition). In part for preparation of some...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Who Invented Boolean Functions?
Hint: I am not sure Calixto Badesa is a faculty member at the University of Barcelona. His department is called the Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sephora Haul Addiction
Ann Althouse examines the 100,000 videos entitled "Sephora Haul' on Youtube. Quite an interesting view of what might be called cosmetics addiction and ultimately...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Time For Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A former CPG innovation manager Kevin McFarthing, talks about how people collaborate for innovation in the big enterprise, spinning...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Thoughts on Grading Schemes
I spent my entire reading week grading an assignment from the first year game development course I TA for. The assignment was to design a board game with rules...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Android Robotics
A good overview, with lots of pictures, of progress in android robotics in Japan. For care giving and beyond. The empathic and human aspects are still to be determined...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secrets of Data Visualization
Erica Driver writes about data visualization. Some practical and often very true thoughts.The best secret of all that I can contribute is that you have to have...
From Wild WebMink
WebDAV Direct
LibreOffice can connect natively to a WebDav server, apparently. Here’s another video in the same series as the ones I posted about CMIS connections, showing LibreOffice...
From Putting People First
Call for Papers for EPIC 2013 London
Since its inception, the EPIC conference has brought together a dynamic community of practitioners and scholars concerned with how ethnographic thinking and methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empathic Design
The term was a new one to me. I do agree that users are people, and you have to consider their needs to make a system that supports their decisions. Thus all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinglist
A very simple App for saving ideas and recommendations that I am currently trying. Simple is good. Is it more simple than using a basic note taking function?
From CERIAS Blog
Some thoughts on “cybersecurity” professionalization and education
[I was recently asked for some thoughts on the issues of professionalization and education of people working in cyber security. I realize I have been asked this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Looking At Curriculum From Different Angles
My job at Microsoft was to promote the use of Microsoft tools for computer science education. It was a great job and I was promoting tools that I had and that I...
From Putting People First
Designing empathy into an open Internet of Things
The mobile technology of tomorrow may be real-time, always on and algorithm driven in its characteristics, writes designer Jessi Baker, but there is a real opportunity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why BI Fails
I agree with some of the commenters. Tools may be necessary these days, but they are not sufficient. Your BI project will mostly likely fail not because features...
From Putting People First
Cultivating empathic design in an analytical world
There is an empathy gap in technology development, argues April Demosky on the FT’s Tech Blog. “In the analytic, data-driven world of Silicon Valley, emotions often...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog