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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 Wild WebMink
? A liberating betrayal?
Having suspended disbelief for as long as I could, my ability to take Microsoft at their word over Skype was shattered today by the announcement by Digium, sponsors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Digital Directions with QR Codes
More QR code use. I am seeing more every day. I have asked several non technical friends about them, and they understand their use. Once smart phone based scanners...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Gamification of Education
http://blog.3rdsense.com/2011/05/social-gaming-giants-zynga-weigh-in-on-the-gamification-of-education/
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Neuroscience to Understand Shopper Decisions
The work described in this piece will also use the technologies developed by Sands Research for mobile brain scanning. Another step forward for the retailing use...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Never Underestimate a 13-Year Old With a Computer and a Dream
Now I taught middle school during the longest year of my life. And I do guest talks at middle schools all the time. But honestly I do not have the knack for doing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recapping the US Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop
What would you do with a 1 Gbps, layer 2, programmable, sliceable network? That
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Smaller Class Sizes Can Matter
My Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences course usually has several hundred students when taught in the fall and winter (when I'm not teaching)...
From Putting People First
Low2No Camp
Low2No Camp is a strategic design workshop curated by think tank Demos Helsinki. In Low2No Camp thirty carefully chosen urbanists come together to create groundbreaking...
From Putting People First
Designing Connectivity notebook available
On 15 March 2011 the DeST Research Unit of the INDACO Department of the Milan Politechnic together with the British Consulate General organised Designing Connectivity...
From Putting People First
Book: New Media Technologies and User Empowerment
New Media Technologies and User Empowerment Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer and Eug
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-24
JCP.next JSR submitted to the JCP I'm delighted to see these plans finally formalised – they have been around ever since Sun as proposals, but the acquisition got...
From Computational Complexity
Cell Phones versus Drunk Driving
Most of you are familiar with the research that using a cell phone is just as dangerous as driving drunk. Method: We used a high-?delity driving simulator toResults...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPad Usability
A very detailed study with many case examples by Jakob Nielsen. His work is always useful for designers of online experience. Points out how variable the iPadFull...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Google Analytics
Excellent introductory piece on how to use it and interpret the resulting measures. Full Mashable post
From Schneier on Security
New Siemens SCADA Vulnerabilities Kept Secret
SCADA systems -- computer systems that control industrial processes -- are one of the ways a computer hack can directly affect the real world. Here, the fearssuccessfully...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup WorldWide Game Competition Finalists 2011
Andrew Parsons is the Game Capitan for the Worldwide Imagine Cup Game competition. This gives him a good close look at the competitors especially the finalists....
From Wild WebMink
? GagaGate, DRM and How To Cripple The Cloud
I’ve been watching the music marketing stunt that Amazon have pulled today with some interest. The story is that Amazon US are selling the new Lady Gaga album Born...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Get $1 Million
“How do you get people to buy more? That’s the $1 million question — literally.” RichRelevance and Overstock.com have partnered to offer the first-ever
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation and Invention Not the Same
Good Techdirt piece on the exploration of innovation. We met with PARC and had a lunch with Engelbart and discussed how the mouse eventually emerged, hoping to...
From The Eponymous Pickle