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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 Putting People First
Addressing poverty through human-centered design
A few days ago the global innovation firm IDEO announced its commitment to apply design-thinking to address poverty with the launch of IDEO.org this fall. Of course...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Is Computer Science All About
One of the big questions that comes up time and again is “what is computer science all about?” Get a bunch of computer science people in a room and you’ll get almost...
From Schneier on Security
Full Body Scanners
Wired.com has a good three-part story on full-body scanners.
From Putting People First
Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
DPPI 11, the 5th conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, will take place in Milan, Italy this year and Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken...
From Wild WebMink
? Parallel Filing
In the future, where will most of the patents that patent trolls use come from? Find out in my article today on ComputerWorldUK.
From Putting People First
Experientia partner jury lead at Core77 Design Awards
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be one of 15 international Jury Captains for the inaugural year of the Core77 Design Awards. The Core77 Design Awards...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Your EMail Domain Says About You
Fascinating blog post in Hunchblog about what your choice of domain says about your demographics. This is surprisingly important, it has been used by the enterprise...
From Geeking with Greg
Personal navigation and re-finding
Jaime Teevan, Dan Liebling, and Gayathri Geetha from Microsoft Research had a fun paper at WSDM 2011, "Understanding and Predicting Personal Navigation", that focuses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Adds 2D Barcodes and Grabbing Text
For a recent study I compared Redlaser and ShopSavvy smartphone barcode readers for on shelf use. I notice today that Microsoft has added a 2D barcode reader...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands as Media Properties
In Brandweek: Unilever says that brands must be turned into media properties via content.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Wednesday News Roundup
Lots of interesting stories touching on computing research in The New York Times and Time magazine in the past couple weeks: - Feb. 28 –
From The Eponymous Pickle
Febreze Reaches Billion Dollar Mark
Commentary regarding the Febreze benchmark on the Brand Channel. A Billion dollars in sales for a quite simple concept.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Attend (or Should Have Attended) SIGCSE
Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Attend (or Should Have Attended) SIGCSE 10. It has a long tradition (42 years to be exact!) of bringing together people from all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Problems with Mobile Location Data
A thoughtful interview post on issues that occur with mobile location data. " ... Between identifying relevant and accurate data sources, harmonizing data from...
From Computational Complexity
Les Valiant wins the Turing Award
In a definite case of when not if, Leslie Valiant will receive the 2010 ACM Turing Award, the highest honor in all of computer science. Valiant has done incredible...
From Putting People First
Sitra
Last week Experientia participated in Ecobuild 2011 (London, UK) to showcase its work in user-centred sustainable design for the built environment, and in particular...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-03-09
'No sysadmin' is the key to Freedom Box "The Freedom Box project will succeed or fail on whether it works "without sysadmin". If only trained sysadmins can figure...
From Schneier on Security
