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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
Design for the next billion 2012: What
In a blog post, Niti Bhan, the head of Experientia’s Emerging Market Business Unit, writes about her realization that there is a huge gap in design for the next...
From Putting People First
Aljazeera
Aljazeera’s The Stream reports on how people declare economic independence by establishing alternative currencies. “People and businesses are establishing micro...
From Putting People First
Ericsson User Experience Lab blog
Cristian Norlin, master researcher at the Ericsson Research User Experience Lab, alerted me via Twitter to the Lab’s new blog. The User Experience Lab at Ericsson...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Shouldn
Back in the day when I went to a college with A computer room with A computer it was cool enough that there was a computer there and that it was available to students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Knowledge Graph
In ReadWwriteWeb: A look at how Google is reoriented search to include more semantic knowledge. And provides a connection to related knowledge.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram System Modeler
Newly announced a System and equation modeling tool based on Mathematica.Have not looked deeper yet, but this appears to be quite impressive. The post linked to...
From Schneier on Security
Lessons in Trust from Web Hoaxes
Interesting discussion of trust in this article on web hoaxes. Kelly's students, like all good con artists, built their stories out of small, compelling details...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research Names 2012 Faculty Fellows
Microsoft Research
From The Eponymous Pickle
NFC Use Expands
In Computerworld. NFC is a wireless transmission method, operating over a few centimeters, that is typically used for payment from smartphones. It is now being...
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Concerns Around "Social Reading"
Interesting paper: "The Perils of Social Reading," by Neil M. Richards, from the Georgetown Law Journal. Abstract: Our law currently treats records of our reading...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Revisiting
A little over two years ago, we blogged about the
From Putting People First
Design prototypes as boundary objects in innovation processes
Holger Rhinow, Eva K
From Putting People First
Ecosystems rule over products now. Here
In order for designers to navigate the complex ecosystem of digital platforms, they’ll need to master business modeling and become comfortable working across disciplines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Gamification
PEW report on the topic of gamification. Useful overview.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scaling and Power Laws
Good examination of power laws in the newly revived Exploring Complexity blog. An important idea that is introduced clearly here.
From Computational Complexity
STOC Business Meeting
Last night I ran my last STOC business meeting as SIGACT chair. It was a three-hour affair until the hotel staff kicked us out at midnight. Lots of highlights.online...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science: The Big Picture
As I prepare to meet with a local School Board member and a magnet high school principal to discuss implementing computer programming in the high school, I have...
From Schneier on Security
Racism as a Vestigal Remnant of a Security Mechanism
"Roots of Racism," by Elizabeth Culotta in Science: Our attitudes toward outgroups are part of a threat-detection system that allows us to rapidly determine friend...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog