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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
Scareware: How Crime Pays
Scareware is fraudulent software that uses deceptive advertising to trick users into believing they're infected with some variety of malware, then convinces them...
From Putting People First
Passive magic, design of delightful experience
Stefan Klocek, principal designer at Cooper, reflects on what it means to design for wonder and delight in the user experience: “Why is Google Maps on a mobile...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 7
February 10 Hearing: The Immigration Policy and Enforcement Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the E-Verify program, an electronic...
From Putting People First
Reflecting on usability and user-centred design
Two new articles have been published on the UX Matters site: Why don
From Putting People First
SEE conference looks at Europe
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be heading to his home country of Belgium in March 2011, to chair the SEE conference on integrating design into regional...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 February 2011
I spent the weekend in Miami for a meeting of a joint ACM and IEEE committee working on a new/updated set of curriculum recommendations for four-year college computer...
From Wild WebMink
Governance Benchmark Available
My article establishing an open-by-rule benchmark for checking the governance of open source communities is now available in the Essays section.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber War Rules of Engagement
In the BBC: On a proposal for a cyber war rules of engagement. This deserves thinking about much more than it has been. We now depend much on the Internet and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytic Bridge on Facebook
The AnalyticBridge social network now has a presence on Facebook. It has been a useful space to be part of.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pitch for Semantic Web in the Enterprise
A quick video pitch by Mark Montgomery of KYield for semantic technologies in the enterprise. Heard about semantic technologies but did not know why you should...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics at the Stanford/MIT Venture Lab
This is an interesting upcoming session at the Stanford Venture lab on predictive analytics on February 15. The speaker participants seem to be an interesting...
From Wild WebMink
? FOSDEM Java
The Free Java DevRoom at FOSDEM was packed with people all day yesterday. At the beginning, Mark Reinhold (from Sun and now Oracle, the chief Java engineer) hoped...
From The Eponymous Pickle
No Successor Signaled at P&G
In Adage: Procter & Gamble's Reorganization Signals No CEO Successor Yet Decision Not to Replace Vice Chairman Steele Speaks Volumes Procter & Gamble Co.'s re-organization...
From The Noisy Channel
Google vs. Bing: A Tweetle Beetle Battle Muddle
Unless you’ve been living in a cone of silence, you’ve probably heard about the epic war of words between Google and Bing. But just in case, here’s a quick summary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Searching With Privacy
Need to protect what you are searching about? Startingpage claims to keep your searches and IP address private. To try it, click here. Though most people don't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whorf on Language
The Whorfian hypothesis (Also called linguistic relativity) came up a number of times as we started to think of product descriptions in many languages. Are translations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Treadmill with a Browser
Nice idea. I have been doing more internet browsing on the equipment of late. Perhaps the speed of the interaction should be proportional to the speed of the...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-05
Affirmative action in procurement for open standards and FLOSS This paper asserts what I have heard from many directions – that government procurement remains closed...
From Putting People First
How video calls are changing our daily life
From deaf people who previously had little use for mobile phones to grandparents wanting to connect with their grandchildren, video calls are changing our lives...
From Putting People First