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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 The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Apply for NSF
The National Science Foundation has issued a solicitation for its East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI), providing U.S. science and engineering graduate...
From Apophenia
The Unintended Consequences of Cyberbullying Rhetoric
We all know that teen bullying – both online and offline – has devastating consequences. Jamey Rodemeyer’s suicide is a tragedy. He was tormented for being gay....
From Schneier on Security
Three Emerging Cyber Threats
On Monday I participated a panel at the Information Systems Forum in Berlin. The moderator asked us what the top three emerging threats were in cyberspace. I...
From Schneier on Security
An Interesting Software Liability Proposal
This proposal is worth thinking about. Clause 1. If you deliver software with complete and buildable source code and a license that allows disabling any functionality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sales Motivation With Games
Just received from notable gamification vendor Bunchball. Some nice ideas embedded here, and where better to try gamification than with a heavily extroverted...
From Putting People First
Please enter your password, again and again
Khoi Vinh reflects on the fact (and the user experience) that almost everything on all of his computers and all of his mobile devices can only be accessed with...
From Putting People First
Book: Mobile First
Mobile First Luke Wroblewski A Book Apart October 2011 Abstract Our industry
From Putting People First
Reflections on the internet of things and yet another revolution
The internet of things and yet another revolution The “internet of things” is viewed as the next big thing, but when will it allow people to create their own stuff...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Education Policy Chair Testifies to Congress on IT Research and Development
Dr. Robert Schnabel, Dean of the School of Informatics at the University of Indiana and Chair of ACM’s Education Policy Committee, testified before the House Research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Computer Scientists Can Empower Journalists
In CACM: Computational Journalism: How computer scientists can empower journalists, democracy's watchdogs, in the production of news in the public interest ......
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever App that Rewards Shoppers at Wal-Mart
This uses a simple check-in loyalty model at Wal-Mart and Sam's. A collaboration with Unilever. " ... Unlike most location-based apps, Check In To Win focuses...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recent IARPA, DARPA, NIH RFPs Require Computational Expertise
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH)
From Schneier on Security
U.S.-Australia Cyberwar Treaty
The long-standing ANZUS military treaty now includes cyberspace attacks: According to Reuters, the decision was made in discussions between the two countries this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Shaping the Store with Virtual Reality
In CGT, an excellent and fairly detailed article on Procter & Gamble's development of the virtual store concept within it's innovation centers. The first time...
From My Biased Coin
Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop
I'm just off a plane coming home from the Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop at Stanford. It went really well, and I really enjoyed it.I think a variety of things...
From Wild WebMink
Open Core MySQL? Contributor Agreements!
Oracle has finally done what the business management at MySQL had been asymptotically approaching for years. It’s taking MySQL open core. It’s interesting to read...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Enterprise and the Network: DemandTec
I had an interesting conversation with DemandTec a few weeks ago about how they have constructed a network to help retail and manufacturing companies collaborate...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
LIVE Soon: Congressional Hearing on the NITRD Program
At 2pm EDT today, the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education will convene a hearing about the Federal government’s Networking...
From Putting People First
BBC Viewpoint: Anthropology meets technology
Intel’s corporate anthropologist Genevieve Bell has written an elegant introductory article for the BBC site on the role of anthropology in the corporation – particularly...
From Putting People First