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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
BMW’s electric experience
Martin C. Pedersen reports in a long article for Metropolis Magazine on the 2014 BMW i3, the company’s first fully electric vehicle aimed at city driving. The article...
From Putting People First
Brave New City
Metropolis Magazine asked seven visionary design teams, both established and up-and-coming, what they predict a fully accessible city might look like (and better...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Visual Basic Gangnam Style!
Last week I was browsing though my RSS feeds and came across a post called Python Gangnam Style! that was all about playing music with Python. Now Python is a fine...
From Putting People First
Creating behaviour change in people using mobile technology
Rajeev Suri posted a short interview with Gustav Praekelt of Praekelt Consulting and the Praekelt Foundation, who focuses on creating behaviour change in people...
From Putting People First
The Age of User Experience Design – Infographic
The growth of the User Experience Design field is breathtaking, but well deserved. Thanks to UX Designers all over the world, the quality of products has increased...
From Wild WebMink
The Forces Of Open
What’s driving open source? That was the question InfoWorld asked me to explore for a feature-length article. I spent a good deal of time over the summer thinking...
From Putting People First
User experience in the age of sustainability
Designers, as makers of products and services, are key stewards of our planet because the products and services we design influence the ways in which people live...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New MIT Center for Mobile
MIT newest research center will focus on mobile technologies. More here. Also known more formally as the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Apps4VA Hackathons
My friend Ed Donahue asked me to pass along some information about Apps4VA and their upcoming hackathons this weekend. Apps4VA sounds pretty cool so I am happyApps4VA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NYC Ends its Square Taxi Test
In GigaOM : this was brought to my attention as I started my own small pilot of the Square payment method for some kinds of consulting work. So far it has gone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Cash be Obsolete?
Adage on the obsolescence of cash. I am convinced it will happen, especially if convenience incentives continue to grow, and are provided in exchange for elements...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Awards $21 Million to Enable Use of Big Data
Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $21.6 million to 34 institutions across the country through the foundations Campus Cyberinfrastructure-Network...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Turns on iPhone Tracking in iOS6
This is important: Previously, Apple had all but disabled tracking of iPhone users by advertisers when it stopped app developers from utilizing Apple mobile device...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Perspective
There is a recent news story about a 14 year old Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban because she was advocating for girls to be able to attain an education...
From Computational Complexity
Matching Nobel Prizes
This week Bill and I have traveled to Germany for the Dagstuhl Seminar on Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods in Computational Complexity. Plenty of newly minted...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
You cannot scale creativity
As a teenager, I was genuinely impressed by communism. The way I saw it, the West could never compete. The USSR offered a centralized and efficient system that...
From Schneier on Security
Master Keys
Earlier this month, a retired New York City locksmith was selling a set of "master keys" on eBay: Three of the five are standard issue for members of the FDNY,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Group Intelligence
On Group Intelligence: In the HBR blog network. Collective intelligence is a complex issue. It clearly deals with IQ and social aptitude. " ... work is...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 October 2012
Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. One of the things I did was to attend the New Hampshire TechFest at a local high school. NH TechFest is an annual event...
From Wild WebMink