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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 Computational Complexity
Is this solution cheating?
Consider the following problem: A hole is drilled through the center of a sphere. The cylinder-with-caps is removed. The length of the removed cylinder (itHere...
From Wild WebMink
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Project Harmony looks to improve contribution agreements I hope to be able to participate in this activity, if only to ensure that it does not become a validation...
From Putting People First
Kuniavsky designing read-write web-created things
This fast approaching era of desktop manufacturing via advanced MakerBots and other 3D printers is in part why ThingM co-founder Mike Kuniavsky runs an annual conference...
From Putting People First
The cities we need
The Grattan Institute, an Australian independent public policy think-tank, has published a new report, entitled “The Cities We Need“, that aims to set an agenda...
From Putting People First
Why social experience is the future of online content
“For all of the attention on social networking, there are few social media experiences that match the fun of hanging out together with friends in person,” writes...
From Putting People First
Design research at LIFT conference
At the beginning of May, frog design partnered with the Lift conference in Geneva to conduct design research on the conference itself to understand what was working...
From Putting People First
The product of a healthy relationship
The relationship between researchers and product designers can be a rocky one. Paul Golden looks at how market research can make sure it promotes creative thinking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Acquires Woot
In a cool move Amazon has bought the geeky surplus store Woot. Will operate as an independent subsidiary. Although I have not been there for a while Woot was known...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - June 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 6)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the June issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Celebrates Maps Mashups
Its only been five years since the launch of the Google Maps API. ReadWriteWeb celebrates with an article about it, and points to their map of mashups. Have now...
From Schneier on Security
Data at Rest vs. Data in Motion
For a while now, I've pointed out that cryptography is singularly ill-suited to solve the major network security problems of today: denial-of-service attacks, website...
From Putting People First
Interactions magazine on subtlety and change
The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on subtlety and change, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko: “There are some strange changes under way in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Washing Away Bad Hair Days
In the Online WSJ: Wash Away Bad Hair Days - In the Lab as Procter & Gamble Tries to Figure Out Pantene, Fickle Shampoo Shoppers and Other Marketing Mysteries....
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography Success Story
From Brazil: the moral, of course, is to choose a strong key and to encrypt the entire drive, not just key files.
From Putting People First
Goodbye to UXnet
For nearly three years, selected Putting People First posts — 837 to be precise — have also been published on the website of UXnet. Now that UXnet is being disbanded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Play and our Brain
Reexamining aspects of the interaction of work and play. Which brought me back to Stuart Brown's book: Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and...
From Wild WebMink
? Open Source Dynamics
The Lack Of A Billion Dollar Pureplay Open Source Software Company Shows The Market Is Working Properly “just as we shouldn’t worry about the lack of “billion dollar”...
From Computational Complexity
Broader Impacts
Nicole Immorlica reports on the NSF CISE Broader Impacts Summit held last week in DC. We've all seen it. Most of us have even written one. I'm talking about that...
From The Eponymous Pickle