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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 Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 25-foot Giant Squid Caught in Fishing Net
A 25-foot (or maybe 23-foot) giant squid was caught off the coast of Florida. Also, I'm going to try something new. Let's use this weekly squid post to talk...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner's Value Chain Transformation Imperatives
A very good piece in the Informs Analytics Magazine. I agree. Have been recently involved in looking analytically at the transformation of major supply chain...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Innovative Education Forum–Judging Day
Wow! Just WOW! I spent yesterday judging teacher projects as part of the US Innovative Educator Forum in Redmond. It was absolutely inspiring. In fact I would go...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Innovative Education Forum
Wow! Just WOW! I spent yesterday judging teacher projects as part of the US Innovative Educator Forum in Redmond. It was absolutely inspiring. In fact I would go...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps and the London Underground
I have navigated London by the Underground with the usual paper in hand and surveying the overhead route maps. This new development gives you mobile direction...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Apple Laptop Batteries
Interesting: Security researcher Charlie Miller, widely known for his work on Mac OS X and Apple's iOS, has discovered an interesting method that enables him to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sands Neuromarketing Alliance in China
Just received, an impressive partnership and direction: Sands Research and Brain Intelligence Establish Neuromarketing Alliance in China and GloballyPartnership...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vision for Digital Public Library
The DPLA: Taking some of the Google scanning work further and non profit: " ... Last year, Robert Darnton, a cultural historian and director of Harvard University...
From Apophenia
The Unintended Consequences of Obsessing Over Consequences (or why to support youth risk-taking)
Developmental psychologists love to remind us that the frontal lobe isn’t fully developed until humans are in their mid-20s. The prefrontal cortex is responsible...
From Putting People First
Review: Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell
Michiel De Lange has published a very long and somewhat critical review of the book Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing by Paul...
From Putting People First
Good mobile experiences unfold and progressively reveal their nature
Successful PC and mobile experiences are built on fundamentally different conceptual models and leverage different psychological functions of the user, argues Rachel...
From Putting People First
Art that interacts if you interface
The New York Times reviews Paola Antonelli’s “Talk to Me” show at the Museum of Modern Art. “At its best
From Putting People First
Digital fluency: empowering all students
Liz Losh writes on DMLCentral on an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach to
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Minimizes Management Meddling
By Michael Schrage in HBR Blogs: Was somewhat both proud of and surprised by this revelation. I saw some of both behaviors. And still think more could have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Children Play Like Scientists
In Wired, the results of a study. They appear to isolate variables in play. But is the scientific method all that influences scientists? Or Children?
From Schneier on Security
ShareMeNot
ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on for preventing tracking from third-party buttons (like the Facebook "Like" button or the Google "+1" button) until the user actually...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Live Right Now: NSF Announcing New Innovation Corps
In just a few minutes, during a special session of the National Science Board — and before a large gathering of senior leadership from the National Science Foundation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Groupon Work with Retail
In Progressive Grocer:" ... Supervalu, Inc.
From The Eponymous Pickle