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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
Nestor’s World, a Belgian social design tool
The full service design agency Pars Pro Toto in Ghent, Belgium built the “Wereld van Nestor” [Nestor's World], a social design tool meant to help local governments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots for IPad
IEEE Spectrum has just published an publication App that surveys a number of robots and robotic applications. This appears to be only available for the iPad systems...
From Computational Complexity
App Love
First a shout out to our friends up north on the 30th anniversary of the New York Theory Day this Friday. Just two years ago I wrote a post Gadget Love but now...
From Schneier on Security
James Bond Movie-Plot Threats
Amusing post on the plausibility of the evil plans from the various movies.
From Putting People First
The rise of the sharing communities
As the sharing economy picks up momentum, its reach has become global. In cities and towns around the world, people are creating ways to share everything from baby...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cool Toys For Teaching Software and Engineering
I’m attending the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference this week and spent the morning in the exhibit hall. Most of the hall is stuff I’m not that interested...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thomas Malone on Collective Intelligence
Thomas W Malone was a consultant for us for a number of years. here he writes in the Edge on collective intelligence. Of course our intelligence has always been...
From Schneier on Security
The Psychology of IT Security Trade-offs
Good article. I agree with the conclusion that the solution isn't to convince people to make better choices, but to change the IT architecture so that it's easier...
From Putting People First
The skyscrapers of tomorrow: Experientia features in eVolo 2012 competition
Working together with Marco Visconti architects, Experientia has created a forward-looking skyscraper concept, addressing the theme of global warming. The Visconti...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Try Going a Day Without Technology!
It's no doubt that most of us have become dependent (if not addicted) to technology. We rely on our cell phones, texting, Facebook, Twitter, and Internet searches...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy Implications of Cyborg Eyepieces
Much has been heard about the 'Google Glasses' idea of letting someone experience a place overlaid with a computer screen. We examined eye tracking and Neuromarketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Get Your Washing Machine to Text
The Internet of things, where all things have an address and can communicate. Here, word of a way you can text the concept with real things.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellow Sharoda Paul Featured in the New York Times
Sharoda Paul, a former CIFellow, was recently featured in the New York Times article,“Looking to Industry for the Next Digital Disruption.” After her postdoctoral...
From Schneier on Security
Classified Information Confetti
Some of the confetti at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York consisted of confidential documents from the Nassau County Police Department, shredded sideways...
From Schneier on Security
Hackback
Stewart Baker, Orin Kerr, and Eugene Volokh on the legality of hackback.
From Wild WebMink
Locked-In With Open Source?
You can be if it’s not really open source. While open source forms a part of many proprietary solutions, the term “open source” should only be used to describe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Words Matter
Not long ago someone tweeted “Stop using "guru," "ninja," and other terms for job descriptions. You are a Sparkly Code Princess. Own it!” It’s been running though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM DemandTec for Marketers
From IBM DemandTec, a good view of the need to construct valid shopper segmentation. Why? So we can use targeting to make sure the right consumer gets the most...
From Wild WebMink
MyGOSSCon Slides
I gave a presentation yesterday in Malaysia on the forces driving change in open source; here are the slides.
From The Eponymous Pickle