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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 Computational Complexity
A Simple PSPACE-Complete Problem
Back in the typecast last month I promised a simple PSPACE-complete game in a future post. Here it is: The SET GAME Given: A collection of finite sets S1,...,Sk...
From Putting People First
The Talking Circles conference format
The Designing Design Education for India (DDEI) Conference, which will take place in March 2013 in Pune, India, has an unusual, but engaging format: “This will...
From Schneier on Security
The Terrorist Risk of Food Trucks
This is idiotic: Public Intelligence recently posted a Powerpoint presentation from the NYC fire department (FDNY) discussing the unique safety issues mobile food...
From Putting People First
Upcoming workshop on designing innovative toys for people with special needs
“Toy Design and Inclusive Play” Designing Innovative Toys for People with Special Needs Invitation to join International Creativity Workshop in Bavaria, Germany...
From Putting People First
Interview with public health ethnographer and Facebook UX researcher
Judd Antin is a social psychologist and user experience researcher who studies motivations for online participation at Facebook. In 2011, he was named an MIT Technology...
From Putting People First
Service design publications from Finland and Estonia
As part of ServiceD, a three-year service design project, which researched future educational needs and piloted service design education, Lahti University of Applied...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where Do You Go To Learn To Teach Computer Science?
Most people I know who teach computer science more or less figured out how to do it on their own. Some were lucky enough to have peers in the same school or close...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Financials
Harry Lewis has had several interesting posts this month over at his blog. In particular, he discusses Harvard Magazine's recent analysis of Harvard's Annual Financial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Apps
SAP support Windows 8 with six new apps. " .... In addition to SAP WorkDeck, the other five new apps for Windows 8 are: SAP Manager Insight for human resources...
From Schneier on Security
Webmail as Dead Drop
I noticed this amongst the details of the Petraeus scandal: Petraeus and Broadwell apparently used a trick, known to terrorists and teenagers alike, to conceal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future View of Sustainable Packaging
Via Chris Holden of RecordedFuture A view of the future of packaging. " ... "Sainsbury's said that it had the industry's most ambitious target to reduce packaging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Medical Applications
In CACM: Valerie Barr outlines important big data medical applications. Exciting examples underway.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Powered Subscription Service
In AdAge, another project from their social labs. A social powered subscription service. " ... The @WalmartLabs unit today is broadly launching Goodies Co.,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Supply Chain Disasters
Over the years a problem we dealt with many times, some of our key production facilities being located in bad weather prone areas. This article in HBR does a good...
From Schneier on Security
Keys to the Crown Jewels Stolen?
At least, that's the story: The locks at the Tower of London, home to the Crown Jewels, had to be changed after a burglar broke in and stole keys. The intruder...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Open-ended Project
I’ve been thinking a lot about projects the last month or so. You may have seen it in my posts. Mostly I’ve been talking in generalities but today I’d like to focus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Data Center History
Fascinating view of how the Google Data center has evolved. " ... Google opened up on its data center operations today at an industry event in Phoenix. It shared...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unconscious Branding Book
Via Sands Research Palgrave Macmillian Releases Today: Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower (and Inspire) Marketing by Douglas Van Praet"Doug VanStephen...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Ryan Wiliams Combine
Structuring his famous proof to build more on it Ryan Williams is a deep theorist who is known among other things for his frontier-setting lower bounds against...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson