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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
The Club of Helsinki – co-creation of urban development projects
The Club of Helsinki is a non-profit organization that offer possibilities to co-create urban development projects that prototype new integrated and sustainable...
From Putting People First
Transforming Bodies & Lifestyles: Insights into Inspiring Behavior Change
Transforming Bodies & Lifestyles: Insights into Inspiring Behavior Change Institute For The Future 2012 Inspiring people to change their behaviors in order to become...
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Wearable tech pioneers aim to track and augment our lives
Wearable technology is still in its infancy but as it increasingly taps into a desire to have the functionality of technology without the intrusiveness. A BBC article...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finish the Features or Hit the Date
In professional development there is always a trade off between what features to have in a product and when you want to ship the product. Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life...
From Computational Complexity
Dagstuhl Typecast
Nerd Shot from Dagstuhl Seminar 12421 Lance: Welcome to another Typecast from beautiful Schloss Dagstuhl. I’m here with Bill for the Workshop on Algebraic.Bill...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tweets are Big Data
Are Tweets data? In GigaOm. With the increasing use of tweets the need for real-time analytics is happening more, I recently did an evaluation that dealt with...
From Schneier on Security
Genetic Privacy
New report from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Biothethical Issues. It's called "Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing." The Commission...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Killing Curiosity
I have real mixed feelings about the Advanced Placement exams in general and the AP Computer Science exam in particular. Very mixed. There are some criticisms in...
From Putting People First
UX articles and dissertations from Denmark
Mind Design, the Design Research Webzine of the Danish Centre for Design Research, contains a wealth of information, all available in English. Here are some highlights...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source and Cloud
After the Community Summit at Open World Forum, three of the speakers – including me – spent 10 minutes discussing how cloud computing impacts the open source community...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Blog Reaches Over 300,000 Views!
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog, which was created in 2008, has served as a means for exchanging information between the research community and funding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Temporal Forecasting Story
Connecting methods to provide forecasts. Forecasts based on semantically rich text data, such as that based on blog entries, news posts, or tweets. Today I met...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Sites
A number of sites to watch that deal with the topic of big data. lots of hype of late, but the topic needs to be watched as techniques evolve.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
One Man’s Floor Is Another Man’s Ceiling
Factoring again, always factoring… Peter Borwein is among those who carry forward the title mission of Alan Turing’s famous paper, “On Computable Numbers…” With...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Postoc / Visiting Scholar Call
Harvard's CRCS is looking for postdocs! Please apply....We're very interested in theorists (and, of course, non-theorists as well!) in all of the areas listedhttp...
From Wild WebMink
Kicking Comic Sans
If you have been using the font Comic Sans to support dyslexics, there’s a new font in town – see ComputerWorldUK.
From Schneier on Security
Studying Zero-Day Attacks
Interesting paper: "Before We Knew It: An Empirical Study of Zero-Day Attacks In The Real World," by Leyla Bilge and Tudor Dumitras: Abstract: Little is known...
From Putting People First
Book: Innovating for People
Innovating for People Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods by LUMA Institute 2012, 86 pages Abstract Innovation is an economic imperative that calls for more...
From Putting People First