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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
Book: Putting people back at the heart of cities
The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs [Paperback] Edited by Austin Williams and Alastair Donald Pluto Press, September 2011 224 pages Review by Spiked: A...
From Putting People First
Why Microsoft
A viral clip produced by Microsoft is–like almost every video on this subject–amazingly polished. It’s also inane and completely lifeless, says FastCo Design. “Futuristic...
From Putting People First
BlackBerry Future Visions
Research in Motion seems to have commissioned a pair of videos envisioning portable technology in the not-so-distant future, writes PocketNow: specifically, they...
From Putting People First
Design and the social sector: an annotated bibliography
This bibliography – now published on Change Observer – was initiatied in early 2011 as an independent study project by Courtney Drake, a graudate student at the...
From Putting People First
Smartphones Find Niche in Human Behaviour Tests
Researchers are using innovative tools to perform psychological experiments a lot faster than they used to. Experts believe the number of smartphone users worldwide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Engagement in Saas Applications
Fairly obvious, but useful reminder of the basics in engagements of any kind.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Moore Party Over?
A short post in CACM on the slowdown of computing. Or can we await quantum computing to save the day. There are still good problems out there to address with...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computing Researchers Weigh in on Changes to Human Subjects Research Regulations
The Department of Heath and Human Services is planning to revise what it calls the Common Rule – the regulations overseeing federally funded research involving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology is Too Distracting
More on the distracting aspects of technology, and yes technology can be very distracting. For we that tend to diverge in attention that can be satisfying. But...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Frameworks for Optimization
I was recently reminded of Charlotte Software Systems, which is in part comprised of parts of several companies I had worked with in the past. They had all been...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Help Wanted: Examples of Nonlinear Stories and Less Successful AR Projects
I'm working on two projects where I need to come up with as long a list of examples as I can. I've got some in mind, but what better way to make sure I don't miss...
From Schneier on Security
Secret Codes in Bacteria
Neat: Researchers have invented a new form of secret messaging using bacteria that make glowing proteins only under certain conditions. In addition to being useful...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A New Analogy
Last month I was able to attend a regional conference conducted by the National Girls Collaborative Project. The keynote speaker was Dr. Chris Sahley from Purdue...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DHS Secretary Talks Cybersecurity Innovation, Workforce
Before a packed room of leading government officials, technologists, and journalists in downtown Washington this morning,
From My Biased Coin
Lisa Randall on the Daily Show
Last night's Daily Show (link to full episode) was on fire.The first segment was focused on SCIENCE! The part with Aasaf Mandvi was simultaneously hysterical and...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Preaching to the STEM Choir
This week I received an announcement about yet another
From Schneier on Security
The Security of SSL
EFF reports on the security of SSL: The most interesting entry in that table is the "CA compromise" one, because those are incidents that could affect any or every...
From Wild WebMink
? Liberty and Vigilance
In the Place de la Bastille in Paris, this statue stands at the top of a column commemorating the citizens of France who took up arms to finally rid themselves...
From The Eponymous Pickle