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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Interactive Webinar on NSF’s CyberSEES Program
On Monday, November 19, at 4:00 PM EST, the National Science Foundation will hold a webinar on its Cyber-Enabled Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES)...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast Sets of Integers
Maintaining a set of integers is a common problem in programming. It can also be implemented in many different ways. Maybe the most common implementation uses a...
From My Biased Coin
Posts from FOCS (Part 4)
[Editor: In Part 4 of what now looks to be a 5- or 6-part series of reports from FOCS, second-year graduate student Ludwig Schmidt of MIT contributes a summaryhttp...
From Computational Complexity
If GASARCH Tweeted what would he tweet?
If I tweeted this is what I would tweet: The problem with trying to predict who will win the election. Prez election thought: if you run as yourself and lose (Stevenson...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wicked Problems
We started to use the phrase 'wicked Problem' around the year 2000. Here is an incomplete analysis of the use of the phrase: So what is its definition? I like...
From Putting People First
Nicolas Nova interviewed on Ethnography Matters
The people from Ethnography Matters, an ethnography group blog that is celebrating its first year anniversary today, interviewed their new regular contributor Nicolas...
From Putting People First
How 3 million hours of user-testing fixed the Jawbone Up
Pulled from store shelves after a month, the first high-profile wearable activity tracker was a humiliation for Jawbone. Now, the Up is back, and anyone vying for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Marketing Mix Decisions
I have been recently been taking a look at the broad concept of marketing mix decisions. The problem is old: how do we decide how much promotional dollars toTheir...
From Putting People First
An interview with three UX strategists
The role of UX Strategist is a relatively new one on UX design teams, and has recently addressed in two articles on UXmatters: “UX Strategy: The Heart of User-Centered...
From Schneier on Security
Free Online Cryptography Course
Dan Boneh of Stanford University is offering a free online cryptography course. The course runs for six weeks, and has five to seven hours of coursework per week...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Project or Recipe
Chris Lehmann is the principal of the Science Leadership Academy, a partnership school in Philadelphia, and a frequent speaker on educational issues. He’s a great...
From Putting People First
A qualitative study of internet non-use in Great Britain and Sweden
Living Offline – A Qualitative Study of Internet Non-Use in Great Britain and Sweden by Bianca Christin Reisdorf (U. of Oxford, UK), Ann-Sofie Axelsson (Chalmers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Midsize Organizations: Simpler BI
Jeff Zabin via Gib Bassett on using simpler business intelligence applications. Especially for the midsize company. Yes, I agree. In fact I would take it even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keeping Plastic Cards
In GigaOm: I had always expected that plastic cards would go away once the mobile smartphone-enabled wallet took over. Here the case is made that cards will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Another Look at Design and Analytics
I met Joseph Kyoung-yun of Wayne State at a talk I gave last week and he was nice enough to send along some background on the work he was doing. He writes " ....
From Schneier on Security
Fairy Wren Passwords
Mother fairy wrens teach their children passwords while they're still in their eggs to tell them from cuckoo impostors: She kept 15 nests under constant audiotheir...
From Putting People First
Book: Advancing Ethnography in Corporate Environments
Advancing Ethnography in Corporate Environments: Challenges and Emerging Opportunities Edited by Brigitte Jordan Left Coast Press November 2012, 224 pages [Amazon...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Indie Game: The Movie
I am very grateful that I will (hopefully) be lucky enough to see my vision for my Gram's House game developed professionally with research grants. After watching...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2012: Notes from a Conference in Paradise
The moment I learned that CIKM 2012 would be held in Maui, I knew I had to be there. Having co-organized the CIKM 2011 industry event, I had enough karma to be...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog