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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
GEM, Nokia
Nokia releases a new phone concept – Gem – which “revolutionizes mobile design by turning the entire handset into a touchscreen”. Launched on the 25th anniversary...
From Putting People First
Smarter, better cyborgs
Instead of augmenting reality, we should make technology more aware, argues Christopher Butler in this article for Print Magazine. “Though an initial AR [Augmented...
From Putting People First
Sciences of human understanding
Dirk Knemeyer has published a call to rely on foundational science(s) to better understand users. “The preponderance of research and publications on user studies...
From Putting People First
Brief rant on the future of interaction design
Interaction designer Bret Victor has published his “brief rant on the future of interaction design“. “To me, claiming that Pictures Under Glass [as in touch screens]...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Clouds
ReadWrite Web writes about the meaning of the cloud to the typical consumer. Useful, I have had several people ask me what the 'cloud' was. It is easy to define...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the August issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From Schneier on Security
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
It's taken me a few years, but I've come around to this buzzword. It highlights an important characteristic of a particular sort of Internet attacker. A conventional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke a Winner on Social Media
Good USA Today article on Coke's successful use of Twitter and Facebook. Includes a useful video. As I have said before, Coke is a well known brand, so can be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology and the Economy
Brian Arthur on how Technology is recreating the 21st century economy. We followed Arthur at the Santa Fe Institute when he was building interesting predictive economic...
From Computational Complexity
Making Money the (Computationally) Hard Way
Digital cash systems have come and gone but Bitcoin seems to be doing okay. By request I am giving a lecture about Bitcoin in my crypto class. Most of the material...
From My Biased Coin
Programming for Non-Programming Exercises
One of the exercises I assigned last week proved interesting: Consider n points on a circle, labeled clockwise from 0 to n-1. Initially a wolf begins at 0 and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WalMart IPhone Apps Adds Functions
How can Apps best combine in-store and online sales? WalMart has rolled out some new App functionality that addresses this. In particular emphasizing the shopping...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Presenting New
At 11am EST today, key officials from the National Science Foundation (NSF), led by NSF Director
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science at the Microsoft Global Forum
This week Microsoft is hosting over 700 innovative teachers from around the world in Washington DC at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum. Unfortunately...
From Schneier on Security
Unlocking any iPad2 using a Smart Cover
This security bug is just plain weird.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Sharpens R&D Focus
It makes sense for this evolution. Jeffrey Phillips of OVO Innovation points to this as part of a broader post. " ... do you want to innovate for the technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Requirements for Next Gen Marketers
In Adage: Very true. Agility, Digital, Data. Mostly it is about analytical methods and how to apply them in multiple analytical layers to support important management...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Playing Virtual Games as Serious Business
Useful findings. We have seen these repeatedly in experiments. People are drawn by meaningless rewards, useless free offers, irrational propositions. But is tricking...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog