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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
Innovation study: food and digital connectivity
Harnessing the rich detail, creativity, and individual relevance of personal narratives, Shareable.net and Latitude Research co-sponsored an innovation study to...
From My Biased Coin
Last Day of Class!
Sometimes, I think the students are so excited about the end of classes, they don't realize that it's almost equally exciting for the faculty. While I enjoy teaching...
From The Eponymous Pickle
B2B Accepts Social Networking
A fairly obvious conclusion based on just cursory observation online, In ECommerce Times: " ... B2B organizations have largely accepted online social media technologies...
From Schneier on Security
New York Police Protect Obama from Bicycles
They were afraid that they might contain pipe bombs. This is the correct reaction: In any case, I suspect someone somewhere just panicked at the possibility that...
From Computational Complexity
Trading Money for Computation
Since the beginning of complexity we talked about time complexity t(n) as a function of the input size. But it has been the inverse of this function that we really...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Creating Games is More than Programming
For me at least the academic year is about to end; my final exam is ten days away. And then I have to gear up full time for a June gaming institute for students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Boot Camp Digital
Lots of good things in the Boot Camp Digital Blog by Krista Neher. Including audience measurement, social media strategies, marketing your business on Facebook...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Edge on The Ash Cloud
An Edge Special on how decision makers acted in response to the transportation crisis caused by the Icelandic ash cloud. A very good interpretation by a number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collective Pleasure
The Engine Group posts on: Individual Choice Doesn't Take Away Collective Pleasure.
From Putting People First
The interviews of l
The bilingual (Fr/En) research journal CADI of the highly respected design school L’
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Much Online Training?
This short piece questions the over-use of online training. I was involved with an analysis of face-to-face vs online methods and in-person was clearly better....
From Schneier on Security
ICPP Pre-Trial Settlement Scam
Nasty scam, where the user is pressured into accepting a "pre-trial settlement" for copyright violations. The level of detail is impressive.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
US Imagine Cup Winners
Today after keynote presentations by James Cameron (who praised Microsoft Research for helping them create a digital asset management system that made Avatar possible)...
From Putting People First
Guidebook on climate communications and behavioral change
To address global warming there must be a shift in thinking and behavior that motivates people and organizations to engage in emissions reductions and climate preparedness...
From Putting People First
Eight interaction design and architecture videos
The disciplines of interaction design and architecture share a number of common traits
From Putting People First
Interactions Magazine
The latest issue of Interactions Magazine is about the spread of design into new areas, write editor Jon Kolko: “The process of design is spreading into new areas...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 26
April 28 Markup: The House Science and Technology Committee will mark up a reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act. 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn Building
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Findings on Blog Readership
There have been a number of reports that both blog reading and writing have decreased among younger age groups. Twitter and other social media largely being blamed...
From Schneier on Security
Punishing Security Breaches
The editor of the Freakonomics blog asked me to write about this topic. The idea was that they would get several opinions, and publish them all. They spiked the...
From Computational Complexity