Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 My Biased Coin
Grade Inflation?
I know Harvard is supposed to be famous for its grade inflation, but that's not generally the case in my class (and, I think, for our CS classes in general). Having...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers Making Better Drugs
From the CACM, good overview on computer drug design. Another example of intelligence via directed simulation. The power of abduction.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-23
Microsoft costs cut CSIRO IT jobs $3 million extra in licensing costs that clearly no-one had budgeted for, and lock-in that means there's no alternative but to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sarcasm Recognition
A paper on a method of sarcasm recognition. I use emoticons sometimes in personal communications to make it clear I am being humorous, or at least not completely...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Programming Dojo
Moderator's Note: This blog post was written by a university student in New Zealand who is very interested in teacher feedback on a new programming teaching tool...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeding a Startup Culture
What should a startup culture look like? Have been involved with a number now, both independent and within a much larger organization. They look similar, but are...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-22
xkcd: Infrastructures I've lost count of how many people sent me today's XKCD, complete with a bearded figure advocating use of open document formats… (tags: XKCD...
From Putting People First
Digital Death Day
On 20 May 2010 an event known as “Digital Death Day” brought together the businesses of social networking, data management and death care. One of its organisers...
From Putting People First
Meta Products
Meta Products is a fairly new blog (started in September 2009) related to developments on the Internet of Things. It is run by Wimer Hazenberg and Menno Huisman...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CSTA Voice
If you are interested in CS Education and haven't heard of CSTA's Voice newsletter (CSTA = ACM's Computer Science Teachers Association), go check it out!The CSTA...
From Schneier on Security
Applications Disclosing Required Authority
This is an interesting piece of research evaluating different user interface designs by which applications disclose to users what sort of authority they need to...
From My Biased Coin
ACM elections reminder
I was asked to remind everyone that if they want to vote on the ACM elections, the deadline is May 24th. Here is the official ACM election page. You might note...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psychologists View of User Experience
In UX Magazine, A simple short useful article on the topic of design for user experience. From the psychologists viewpoint. These are the kinds of things that seem...
From Putting People First
Design Of The Other Things
Experientia participates in the exhibition “Design Of The Other Things” at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. Stefano Maffei is the curator of the exhibition...
From Putting People First
Experience design: technology for all the right reasons
Experience Design: Technology for All the Right Reasons Marc Hassenzahl Morgan & Claypool, 2010 In his In the blink of an eye, Walter Murch, the Oscar-awarded editor...
From Putting People First
Special issue on experience design
Last year, Mark Blythe, Effie Law and Marc Hassenzahl edited a special issue on Experience Design in the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. It features...
From Putting People First
The psychologist
Dr. Susan Weinschenk is a psychologist by training and education. She has been applying psychology to the design of technology for 30 years and is the author of...
From Putting People First