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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI

From Schneier on Security Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration … B. Schneier | February 29, 2024

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 29, 2011 at 03:37 PM

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... zephoria
From Apophenia | July 29, 2011 at 01:32 PM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 29, 2011 at 05:20 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 29, 2011 at 05:14 AM

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 Experientia
From Putting People First | July 29, 2011 at 05:04 AM

From Putting People First

Digital fluency: empowering all students

Liz Losh writes on DMLCentral on an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach to Experientia
From Putting People First | July 29, 2011 at 04:40 AM

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2011 at 08:15 PM

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? Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2011 at 07:59 PM

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... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 28, 2011 at 07:02 PM

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... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 28, 2011 at 04:01 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever and Groupon Work with Retail

In Progressive Grocer:" ... Supervalu, Inc. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2011 at 03:55 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Shares Data with Nielsen

After being out of the process for a long time, it is reported that Wal-Mart will start sharing data with Nielsen again. We were always told that Wal-Mart did not... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2011 at 03:30 PM

From Computational Complexity

The Problems of LaTeX

By request a post that may create the biggest backlash since I declared myself Unix free. \begin{rant} LaTeX is a great system for mathematical documents...for... Lance
From Computational Complexity | July 28, 2011 at 02:47 PM

From Schneier on Security

Data Privacy as a Prisoner's Dilemma

Good analysis: Companies would be better off if they all provided meaningful privacy protections for consumers, but privacy is a collective action problem for... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 28, 2011 at 11:27 AM

From Putting People First

Are we becoming too analytical?

Or, why did Google PowerMeter fail? In his latest post, James Landay questions whether over-analysis of data gets in the way of designing a product that truly understands... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 28, 2011 at 10:29 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Innovative Educator Forum Judge Workshop

For some competitions one selects a bunch of smart people, hands them a rubric and says Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 28, 2011 at 09:38 AM

From Wild WebMink

? Contribute To The LibreOffice Conference

I am on the Programme Committee for the upcoming LibreOffice Conference in Paris, and as a consequence I get to see the stream of paper submissions. There have... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | July 28, 2011 at 07:18 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Bubble?

Is social media also a bubble? See here for the graph. I do want just one simple social thing to deal with. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2011 at 04:40 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Another Smart Cart

SK Telecom delivers another grocery smart cart prototype. This one can sync from a smartphone. That by itself is a very good idea, decreasing the cost and complexity... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2011 at 04:26 AM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

A Techie's Vacation

My husband and I are taking a 3+ week vacation to the east coast of Canada this August, and because we're both computer geeks, there's no doubt we'll be lugging... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | July 27, 2011 at 09:36 PM

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