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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
Dan Lockton on behavioural heuristics
Behavioural change researcher Dan Lockton discusses an approach which has emerged out of some of the ethnographic work he has been doing for the Empower project...
From Putting People First
User Interface is the next battlefield in consumer electronics
User Interface (UI) is the next battlefield in consumer electronics and, as products mature, the race to differentiate based on the UI will accelerate. Rather than...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packaging Design
Thoughts on packaging design from a recent conference. " ... "Packaging is the number one medium to communicate the brand," said Michael Okoroafor, VP global packaging...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching
Randy Guthrie wrote a long information packed post about Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching in the very near future. If you or your students are entering the...
From My Biased Coin
Class Size Incentives
There's an interesting story in today's Crimson about a possible rise in "limited enrollment" classes at Harvard. (See this older Crimson article as well.) There...
From Wild WebMink
Eolas Verdict A Hollow Victory
With news breaking that apparently Eolas decade-plus attempt to tax innovation on the internet is finally over, I look at the context and find myself lacking reassurance...
From Schneier on Security
Securing iPads for Exams
Interesting blog post about locking down an iPad so students can take exams on them.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emergence of Whorfian Economists?
I have always been intrigued by the Whorfian hypothesis. The idea that different human languages strongly affect our thinking styles, communication capabilities...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Democratization of Data Science
As I start a study of the democratization of data, and of the Wolfram Alpha Pro release I also see a very on point post by Stephen Wolfram: Launching a Democratization...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Announces New Policy-Focused Internship Program
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hello From Texas
You may have noticed I haven
From My Biased Coin
Citation Circles on FSP
Sorry I haven't blogged much. Life's been busy. But here's an interesting post by FemaleScienceProfessor discussing the appearance of "citation circles", people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speaking Out
In the WSJ: Why people fail to speak up in various contexts. We examined this in focus group settings. I see it in myself in very specific group contexts....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha Pro
The full announcement on Wolfram Alpha Pro. Quite impressive detail. A useful front end to business analytics? Plan to take a much closer look and report back...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Energy Usage
IBM report on smarter energy usage: " .. . From our prior surveys, we know consumers like the idea of having cleaner power options, and more control and efficiency...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAE Elects its Class of 2012
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has just announced the election of 66 new members and 10 foreign associates, including a number of esteemed computing...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Research as Exploration
Check out this talk that asks the question 'What would it take to create a moonshot factory?' It's given by Michael Crow of Arizona State University as part ofWe...
From Schneier on Security
Security Implications of "Lower-Risk Aircraft"
Interesting paper: Paul J. Freitas (2012), "Passenger aviation security, risk management, and simple physics," Journal of Transportation Security. Abstract: Since...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Alpha Pro
Wolfram Alpha Pro is here, and only $4 a month. In Technology Review. Democratizing data analaysis in some new ways, both structured and unstructured. It has...
From The Eponymous Pickle