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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
Julian Bleecker: creating wily subversions
Steven Portigal interviews Julian Bleecker about the near future, design fiction and storytelling. Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher in...
From Putting People First
Lego is for girls
In its new focus on products for girls, Lego is using quite a lot of ethnographic research: “To develop Lego Friends, Knudstorp relaunched the same extensive field...
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Study: Millennials prefer sharing over ownership
The idea of sharing things instead of owning them goes against everything we’ve been taught as a consumeristic society. Those who have spent their lives “keeping...
From Computational Complexity
Game Changers
Two announcements on Monday connected to my two Alma Maters mark the changing face of universities. New York City chooses Cornell and the Technion to create new...
From Putting People First
Design for the marginalised millions
Reboot, a service design firm working in the fields of governance and international development, recently spent time with three marginalized groups in China
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What makes a brand experience great?
Brian Thomas Collins has made a career out of creating brand experiences, “a few of them great”. He writes: “A good brand experience is when a brand does what we...
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Why people adopt or wait for new technology
Jared Spool explores the key differences between
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Five lessons from the best interaction designs of 2011
Frog’s Robert Fabricant breaks down the themes from the 2011 Interaction Design Awards. “Technologies like cheap sensors and cloud computing are increasingly being...
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Video chat reshapes domestic rituals
Far-flung families are increasingly using Skype, Apple
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The Internet gets physical
NY Times technology reporter Steve Lohr writes on how consumer-based Internet technologies are morphing into new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health...
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An evolution toward a programmable universe
With a harvest of data from a wired planet, computing has evolved from sensing local information to analyzing it to being able to control it. Larry Smarr, founding...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM
IBM is out with its sixth annual “Five in Five” list, specifying five technology innovations that have the potential to change the way we live, work, and play over...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
SIGCSE 2012 For Computing Teachers
This is another of several recent “CSTA Blasts” that I am posting on my blog. If you are a member of the Computer Science Teachers Association you will have seen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Local 3D Printing
Discussed here.The idea has been around for a while. When will it's consumer moment come? Remote 3D construction of parts, likely plastic, in out homes in a...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DARPA Announces 2012 Young Faculty Award Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its Young Faculty Award (YFA) program for 2012, seeking to “identify and engage rising stars...
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Training Games
Training games and simulations from Kognito. I was just asked about such systems, which are a favorite topic of mine: " ... Kognito is an award-winning developer...
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Training the Robotics Designers of the Future
Promoting entry level robotics for kids . Late to order for holiday gifts, but I like the idea. I particularly liked Lego Mindstorms and played with far more...
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Determining Pecking Order
A human pecking order algorithm based on linguistic style. Helping with the ordering of online conversations? Or a means to determine marketing influence? Contains...
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SAP Gearing up Google Apps
Quite interesting development. SAP moving towards easier to access and utilize capabilities in the Cloud." ... The current plan is for SAP to deliver an integration...
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