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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 Eponymous Pickle
Engaging to Compete
New from the Seriosity blog: Engaging to Compete. Also a link there to a full chapter of the book. I talk about the book at greater length here. Its about using...
From Schneier on Security
Insect-Based Terrorism
Sounds like fearmongering to me. How real is the threat? Many of the world's most dangerous pathogens already are transmitted by arthropods, the animal phylum...
From Computational Complexity
When to go Low Tech
Recently someone asked me to subreferee a paper for a conference. She emailed me a pdf file but when I printed it out it was unreadable- the spacing was all off...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 17
May 20 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Carl Wieman to be the Associate Director for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Iconoclasts Think
A good podcast: Featured Guest: Gregory Berns, the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University and author of Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Data and fMRI Scans Confirmed
In Roger Dooley's Neuromarketing Blog: ' ... Now, new research published in Nature has shown that there is indeed a correlation between neuronal activity and what...
From Putting People First
User experiences for children, for seniors and for play
UX Matters is another one of these great resources for the user experience community. Here three recent articles: Designing user experiences for children By Heather...
From Putting People First
Bringing behavioural change from lab to studio
Nick Marsh recently published an article with Dan Lockton in the fourth edition of Touchpoint, the Service Design Network journal. The issue is completely focused...
From Schneier on Security
Software Liabilities in the UK
The British High Court ruled that a software vendor's EULA -- which denied all liability for poor software -- was not reasonable. I wrote about software liabilities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 May 2010
I have quite an eclectic mix of links this week. Some career information, some Windows Phone programming links, Internet safety, school IT information and more....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stengthening Brand America
Edward Burghard, Retired Harley Procter Marketer, Procter & Gamble, has made me aware of the Strengthening Brand America Project. It is focused on catalyzing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Quiet Period for This Blog
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From Putting People First
UX reflections in UX Magazine
UX Magazine keeps to its high standards with these three well written contributions: Curators of the Real-Time Web: Distilling the chatter to relevant, actionable...
From Putting People First
Why it
Is there an alternative to the seemingly inevitable cuts to public services? Hilary Cottam of Participle poses the question. “The scale of the challenge to our...
From Putting People First
Danah Boyd and the Facebook privacy discussion
Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd doesn’t need much introduction as her outspoken and well-developed analysis is frequently quoted on this blog. Two long articles...
From Putting People First
The trust economy: A world of P2P money-lending
Wired UK has published a long article on P2P money-lending in its June issue: The article devotes particular attention to Kiva.org, a San Francisco-based peer-to...
From Putting People First
Can business analysts become UX designers?
Mike Gualtieri and Mary Gerush of Forrester Research have just published a paper entitled Business Analysts: Seize the opportunity to deliver compelling user experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Soft Reliability
The concept of soft reliability came up again in a recent conversation. Had not brought it up here for more that a year. Good overview site here. If anyone has...
From Putting People First