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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
Eric von Hippel and 2.9 million British innovators
Ethan Zuckerman reports on yesterday’s Berkman Center lunch talk by Eric von Hippel, where he discussed what he called the
From Putting People First
On the importance of social interaction design for social startups
On his Gravity7 blog, Adrian Chan tries to convince startups and social application companies to embark on in-house social interaction design “The problem, as I...
From Putting People First
The impact of design ethnography and WordPress
Kristina Krause has recently finished a master’s degree in social anthropology at the University of Kent, with a thesis titled: The impact of design ethnography...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Specialized GMail Statistics
I have done some specialized statistics macros for my Gmail conversations, and now just discover a report on a Chrome extension that does just that. Very nice to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gender Discrimination in Graduate School
The numbers show clear gender discrimination in US Graduate school attendance. We are awaiting broad press coverage of this problem, government studies and remedial...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Letters Are There in The Alphabet?
You saw the title and a single number came to mind. If you are English speaking your probably thought
From Schneier on Security
Not Answering Questions at U.S. Customs
Interesting story: I was detained last night by federal authorities at San Francisco International Airport for refusing to answer questions about why I had travelled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decluttering the Organization
This Harvard Business Review View reminds me of experiences we had during the artificial intelligence days in the early 90s ... When we brought up the reasoning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppers Stick to their Lists?
Reported in Mediapost: This seems to be contrary to our own experiences, even overstating how many people actually make lists. Its good to see more research coming...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-14
Twitter kills the password anti-pattern, but at what cost? Jon Udell argues that the switch to OAuth comes at the cost of a loss of flexibility and the potential...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-14
Commons Law – ComputerworldUK.com Great to see UK open source law expert Andrew Katz is now blogging on the (steadily expanding) open source blog at ComputerWorldUK...
From Wild WebMink
? Wise Handling
Twitter kills the password anti-pattern, but at what cost? Jon Udell argues that the switch to OAuth comes at the cost of a loss of flexibility and the potential...
From Schneier on Security
Vulnerabilities in US-CERT Network
You'd think US-CERT would do somewhat better.
From Computational Complexity
How Can You Spend $150 Million?
Suppose you happen to have $150 million burning in your pocket that you want to use to help the theoretical computer science community ($150 million endowed will...
From Putting People First
Experience-based product design from Intel
The Day Zero event of the Intel Developer Forum started off with a presentation by Intel Fellow (and anthropologist) Genevieve Bell who is now also the head of...
From Putting People First
Extensive interview with user interface expert Bill Buxton
Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail has published an extensive, three-part interview that Chad Sapieha conducted with Microsoft Principal Researcher (and fellow...
From Putting People First
Cellphones, social networks make eavesdropping OK?
Not only are many unconcerned about strangers overhearing cellphone calls, we purposely broadcast our personal business on Facebook and Twitter. Sharon Jayson reports...
From Putting People First
Human-computer interaction for development
Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The Past, Present, and Future Research article by Melissa R. Ho (University of California, Berkeley), Thomas N. Smyth...
From Wild WebMink
? Community Types Essay
My essay on Community Types is now available in the Essays section of the site. It defines what I mean by terms like “co-developer” and “deployer-developer” when...
From The Eponymous Pickle