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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
Forget B-School, D-School is hot
The Wall Street Journal published the umpteenth article on design thinking education. What I keep on missing in these pieces is some reflection on what understanding...
From Putting People First
An open letter to the User Experience Community
In an open letter to the User Experience Community, Rich Gunther, President of what used to be called Usability Professionals Association (UPA), announces that...
From My Biased Coin
Sad Passing: Mihai Patrascu
Mikkel Thorup just sent me the following to post regarding Mihai Patrascu. ---------------Mihai Patrascu, aged 29, passed away on Tuesday June 5, 2012, after a1...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Achieving the Perfect Map
In the Lat Log Blog; Excellent piece on elements of a perfect map. Maps are simplifications of very complex and data rich concepts. The drive continues to think...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on House Cybersecurity Information Sharing Bill
In late April the House considered and passed several pieces of cybersecurity legislation. At the time USACM released a statement with general recommendations for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finalists for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum
Today the US Partners in Learning team announced the Finalists for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum. There are a lot of great projects in that list...
From My Biased Coin
Verification in the Cloud [Guest Post by Justin Thaler]
[Justin talks about his upcoming work, to be presented at HotCould.] For the past few years, Michael and I, along with our awesome collaborators, have worked towards...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Pretty obvious that Cloud concepts will be important for data delivery to Business Intelligence. A quick take here. Expect the trend to continue as more social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Strategy
Mckinsey on the crowd sourcing of strategy. Can the crowd have strategic wisdom? And, which crowd should be involved? The latter is often a key issue in crowd...
From Schneier on Security
Ghostery
Ghostery is a Firefox plug-in that tracks who is tracking your browsing habits in cyberspace. Here's a TED talk by Gary Kovacs, the CEO of Mozilla Corp., on it...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF-Led Merit Review Global Summit Results in Six Principles
Back in January, the National Science Board (NSB)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Networks in the Enterprise
Information Week article on how the enterprise can best use social networks. I was involved with the examination of social networks to get things done. Part of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pringles Completes Sales to Kelloggs
I don't usually include enterprise activity that is not technical here, but I was involved in the Pringles, Folgers and other Food business for a while so this...
From Putting People First
The Curious Case of Internet Privacy
Free services in exchange for personal information. That’s the “privacy bargain” we all strike on the Web. Cory Doctorow argues it could be the worst deal ever....
From Putting People First
Why are contextual inquiries so difficult?
Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, thinks contextual inquiry is the most difficult user research technique to perform effectively, as it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Smarter IBM Analytics
The quantity of financial sector data is increasing at some 70% a year, says an article in CIO. So it is clear that even if small and medium, size businesses don't...
From Wild WebMink
It
Now the UK’s open standards consultation is over, let’s get back to basics. All these power plugs didn’t give us more choice – they instead inconvenienced us all...
From Schneier on Security
Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2012)
I'm at the Fifth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, SHB 2012. Google is hosting this year, at its offices in lower Manhattan. SHB is an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SimCity and Facebook
I have had an interest in SimCity since its early days. Executives came to us soon after its launch to ask if we could produce a similar simulation for the entire...
From The Eponymous Pickle