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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
Software Monoculture
In 2003, a group of security experts -- myself included -- published a paper saying that 1) software monocultures are dangerous and 2) Microsoft, being the largest...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do We Need A New Teaching Programming Language
I saw some discussions lately about the need or lack of need for new programming languages. In once case especially for teaching programming. In general I think...
From Putting People First
Book: Designing Media by Bill Moggridge
Designing Media, the new book by Bill Moggridge, director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and founder of IDEO, is now available in hard copy, as a DVD...
From Putting People First
U DriveIT
Norden, the Nordic Innovation Center, has published the results of a research project between Denmark, Norway and Iceland, that explored the increasingly strong...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spatial Analysis Techniques in R
What looks to be a good course in using the R statistics language for spatial analysis problems. " ... Topics covered include point pattern analysis, identifying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curation Nation
In Adage: On the concept of a curation nation. It has been that way for a long time, the best things are passed along to me by readers. My readership appreciates...
From Michael Nielsen
How hard is space travel, in principle?
Our Earth-based intuitions about the difficulty of travelling long distances break down badly in space. It’s tempting to think that just because Saturn, say, is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Needlebase: Data Gathering and Visualzation Tool
In Readwriteweb: " ... Needlebase, a great new point-and-click tool for extracting, sorting and visualizing data from across pages around the web. I've been using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Alerts
Have not followed the Google small business blog very closely, but recently there is an interesting article: Now Available with Google Apps: Google Alerts. " ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Prototype and Influence People
In UX Magazine. On Rapid Prototyping and influence. The concept is intriguing ... prototyping is a valuable method, but how can it be done effectively. via Dave...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Is Kinect Doomed to Casual Gaming?
Dance Central by Harmonix appears to be one of the better Kinect launch titles (some say the best). I'm personally very excited about getting it for my birthday...
From Schneier on Security
The Constitutionality of Full-Body Scanners
Jeffrey Rosen opines: Although the Supreme Court hasn't evaluated airport screening technology, lower courts have emphasized, as the U.S. Court of Appeals forThe...
From Putting People First
Understanding communities through ethnography
Digital marketing expert Dhiren Shingadia interviewed ethnographer and technology researcher Tricia Wang to learn how ethnography can provide new insights for companies...
From Putting People First
The Absent Peer
Sebastian Greger, social interaction designer, internet sociologist and post-graduate student at the Media Lab of the Aalto University School of Art and Design...
From Wild WebMink
? Crowdsource is not open source
I’ve heard a few conversations in the last week treating open source interchangeably with crowdsourcing. Despite sounding the same they are very different, and...
From Wild WebMink
? Hidden Motives
Intellectual Property Appears to Figure Prominently In Wikileaks Cablegate Michael Geist shrewdly observes that, far from being the exclusive domain of military...
From Putting People First
Interview with Motorola UX designer Hwang Sung-gul
The Korean partner newspaper of the International Herald Tribune today published an interview with Hwang Sung-gul, the creative designer of mobile devices at Motorola...
From Schneier on Security
Mohamed Osman Mohamud
I agree with Glenn Greenwald. I don't know if it's an actual terrorist that the FBI arrested, or if it's another case of entrapment. All of the information about...
From Putting People First
Collaborative design strategies for community technology
Organizations designing for marginalized populations have many design approaches to inform their efforts to enact lasting change. Some are adapted from first-world...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson