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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 Schneier on Security
Students Hack DHS Drone
A team at the University of Texas successfully spoofed the GPS and took control of a DHS drone, for about $1,000 in off-the-shelf parts. Does anyone think that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 July 2012
I am writing this from Irvine California where I have come for the CSTA CS & IT Conference. I have already had a bunch of great conversations with people who arrived...
From Putting People First
Design alone can
Making products attractive and user-friendly is a smart idea, but it is no substitute for R&D and investment, argues James Woudhuysen, a professor of forecasting...
From Putting People First
In a Fisher-Price lab, apps become child
At a Fisher-Price lab, researchers watch children at play to come up with ideas for new products, including toys that incorporate apps on iPads and iPhones. At...
From Putting People First
Perspectives in experience design
Milan Guenther, founding partner of enterprise design associates, explores the word “user” in “user experience”, and compares it to customer experience, employee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Checking Out With QThru
A Seattle startup that seeks to deliver smartphone enabled scanning and retail checkout. More detail at the Qthru site. We examined this approach a number of...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2012 Challenge: People Search
As we get ready for the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval this October in Cambridge, MA, people around the world are working...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PowerHouse Factories: Brand Culture Plus Data with Analytics
Reconnected this past week with PowerHouse Factories. Impressed by their linking branding with data and analytics. Build the brand, but immediately link in how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes on Book Covers
QR codes showing up on all book covers of some publishers. Like Simon and Schuster. Not unexpected as more consumers are getting used to seeing the codes in...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Grilling Quantum Circuits
Polynomial algebra turns up the heat Amlan Chakrabarti is currently finishing a postdoc at Princeton University, while on leave from the University of Calcutta...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Less Than Wisdom of Crowds
In the NYT: A number of recent examples have shown that the crowd, as exemplified by well known wisdom aggregations like Intrade, is not always correct. Sometimes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumers More Loyal to Store Search
In Progressive Grocer: Intriguing review of research which says that shoppers search by store for online coupons rather than by brand, and as a result see store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Operations Research Blogs from Informs
A list of blogs and other social networking connections sponsored by Informs. Includes communities and focused topics that deal with analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stack Ranking Stifles Creativity
In Forbes: Microsoft example. I am inclined to agree, an approach that strictly forces grading on a curve tends to make people less creative, take fewer risks...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF: Significant Surge in CS Postdocs in Last Decade
Last December, we blogged about changes in the number of new Ph.D.s in computer science — a slight increase between 2009 and 2010, but the “fastest growth” of all...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computational Fairy Tales the Book
Just about a year ago I wrote a post about a Computational Fairy Tale blog (Computational Tales) Briefly Dr. Jeremy Kubica, software engineer and manager at Google...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Squid
This was suprisingly interesting. When a body is mysterious, you cut it open. You peel back the skin and take stock of its guts. It is the science of an arrow,...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Military Cyberattacks and Cyberweapons Treaties
I did a short Q&A for Network World.
From Wild WebMink
GPL Forked
A new project that forks the GPL shows that Github isn’t just for software developers. See my column in InfoWorld this week for more.
From The Eponymous Pickle