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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
How to create products hand in hand with your customer
In his book “Wicked problems: Problems worth solving“, author John Kolko (founder and director of Austin Center for Design) argues that involving end users in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Mood Analysis
In GeekWire: Microsoft research proposes a search that uses mood, interests and education from Facebook activity. Non conscious and inferred information is always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classic Nintendo Games are Hard
NP-Hard to be exact. A specific form of problem that has many examples, the traveling salesman problem is known to be NP-Hard, that cannot be solved by a cadre...
From Putting People First
How user research informed IKEA
IKEA’s new Uppleva Smart TV-furniture unit was extensively shown at the Milan Design Week (which ends today), and on Core77 I will write more today about the interface...
From Putting People First
Behaviour change as value proposition
Chris Risdon, senior experience designer at Adaptive Path, looks at the explosion of smart products, which passively collect data about you and your specific behavior...
From Putting People First
Intersection of the physical and digital worlds
Austin Brown, UX designer at EffectiveUI, and his colleague Lindsay Moore wondered if there was a way to design better, by combinubg the best aspects of interaction...
From My Biased Coin
Things Worth Reading
A blog post describing the disturbing official version of the facts in the UC-Davis pepper spray incident. This should be a link to the actual report. A post...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Synthetic Environments
Simulations are synthetic environment. It has been a long time since I too a look at Purdue's Simulex Inc. which creates macroeconomic and agent oriented environments...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Getting Rid of the T Word
Two years ago I wrote the following blog post. "Training" should be a four-letter word "We need to train more teachers." "Teachers need more training in order...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanotech Revolution
Was pointed to this series of articles by Gwyneth K Shaw on nanotechnology news and tech. Largely non technical and readable. That led me to a series of articles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitization of Manufacturing
In the Economist: Is this the third industrial revolution? They do a good job of providing an overview of technologies that are prompting this, but not necessarily...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Perplexing Problems in Educational Games
When it comes to presenting math problems in an engaging way, Dan Meyer knows his stuff. From putting pseudocontext in its place to telling a math story with his...
From My Biased Coin
Living with New Interfaces
After weeks of asking Google mail to revert to the old look, I find I no longer have that option. Similarly, I'm being forced to write this post using the new...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Extracting Squid Ink
How to extract squid ink. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Across the Curriculum
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Seung Yu, the principal of the new Academy for Software Engineering, a new software/computer science focused school...
From Schneier on Security
Liars & Outliers Update
Liars & Outliers has been available for about two months, and is selling well both in hardcover and e-book formats. More importantly, I'm very pleased with the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kimberly-Clark on Mobile and Social
An interview with Kimberly Clark on the future of mobile and social: " ... Jeff Jarrett, vice president for global digital marketing at Kimberly-Clark, said the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Segmentation plus Merchandising
Merchandising has been around for a long time. We did lots of experimentation trying to understand the specific behavior of consumers in laboratory, virtual and...
From The Eponymous Pickle