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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 The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Taking Advantage of Emotion with Augmented Reality
I've been thinking about how augmented reality can take advantage of emotion to help people complete their tasks more efficiently. These musings were originally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Consumer Analytics Initiative
This is good news, I was impressed by what I saw the Interactive Media Initiative doing. Very empirically data based. They ask for the data! Certainly the previous...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Demarchy and probabilistic algorithms
Demarchy are political systems built using randomness. Demarchy has been used to designate political leaders in Ancient Greece and in France (during the French...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improved Google Goggles
The mouthful of a smartphone App called Google Goggles has been improved. It now recognizes print ads. More here. " ... With the new version of Google Goggles,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Tests New Fujitsu Checkout
Kroger is testing a new Fujitsu Advantage self checkout system that is said to improve interaction with consumers and decrease checkout times. We extensively tested...
From Putting People First
Design research and innovation: an interview with Don Norman
Jeroen Van Geel of Johnny Holland interviewed Donald Norman about innovation, design research, and emotional design. Earlier this year you wrote that design research...
From Schneier on Security
"Homeland Security Hasn't Made Us Safer"
This will be nothing new to readers of this blog, but it's nice to read other people saying it too.
From Wild WebMink
Public Information
OpenAM Book and eBook – Packt Publishing The first book about OpenAM is due for publication any day now. I hope they send me a review copy! Java/DevJam/2011/Fosdem...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
GiveCamp Across America
GiveCamp Across America
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Interfaces
From CES, in Technology Review: On the Future of Interfaces. " ... The mouse and keyboard have been how nearly everyone has interacted with computers since Apple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zest at Procter
Procter & Gamble has sold the soap brand Zest, which has an interesting ad history, nicely written about in AdAge.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Year, New You?
Yep, it's that time of year. The time where we start to reflect on all the good from last year and all the things we want to accomplish in the new year. Typically...
From Computational Complexity
LICS and TAMC call for papers
Two Call For Papers Announcements: LICS 2011 (Logic in Computer Science) has posted its call-for-papers here. (It was probably posted a while back- the submission...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 10
January 13 Meeting: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee of the Elections Assistance Commission will meet (continues January 14) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m....
From Schneier on Security
James Fallows on Political Shootings
Interesting: So the train of logic is: anything that can be called an "assassination" is inherently political; very often the "politics" are obscure, personal...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-10
School's in for open source advocates Excellent initiative that deserves to be emulated all over the world. If you have any kind of meeting spaces at your company...
From Putting People First
Arduino The Documentary. How open source hardware became cheap and fun
When I was working at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, I met Massimo Banzi who embarked on an open source hardware initiative which eventually became the very...
From Putting People First
Cyberspace when you
The Internet promises a kind of immortality. What if your last tweet is the one that defines you for all time? Rob Walker reflects in a long article for the New...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson