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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 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
Law and Big Data
Fascinating piece on the legal implications of big data and visualization. An area that I had not considered fully before. In particular: " .. Predicting the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Becomes a Founding Member of PACE
Last month, CSTA Executive Director Chris Stephenson and I attended the organizational meeting for the Partnership for Advancing Computing Education or PACE. PACE...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Holding Crowdsourcing Workshop This Summer
A number of agencies within the NIH have come together to announce a one-day meeting on “Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation,” to be held on the...
From Putting People First
Growing Fredericia
Arup, Effekt and Experientia win second price in parallel urban renewal competition in Fredericia, Denmark The FredriciaC jury announced the results of an ambitious...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 23
May 23 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the Administration’s cybersecurity proposal. 10:30 a.m., 342...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-23
Open source .NET mimic rises from Novell ashes I'd heard Miguel was looking for funding to do this so I'm not surprised, but I still offer him warm congratulations...
From Schneier on Security
Dropbox Security
I haven't written about Dropbox's security problems; too busy with the book. But here's an excellent summary article from The Economist. The meta-issue is pretty...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 May 2011
Every week end I go to grab by Twitter stream and the notes I have taken as ask myself
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling at the Heart of Product Development
Why we need storytelling There's an interesting question on Quora right now:If you had to pick between an amazing product designer or an amazing engineer to build...
From Putting People First
New service design resource in France
Matthew Marino and his team of User Studio, a French user innovation and design company, have launched designdeservices.org, a great online resource for the francophone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Usability Testing with Eye Tracking
A stand and process developed by Tobii to test mobile devices using eye tracking. Explanatory video. Looks to be well thought out for examples like shelf interaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle