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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
Book: Ubiquitous computing user experience design
At Lift France 09, Mike Kuniavsky spoke about Changing Things: Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products (link to 25 min. video)...
From Putting People First
Successful service design
Successful Service Design: Turning Innovation Into Practice is a website created by the UK’s Cabinet Office that provides a robust guide to service design. The...
From Computational Complexity
Laci Babai Turns 60
I'm at Ohio State for the Combinatorics, Groups, Algorithms, and Complexity Conference in honor of Laci Babai's 60th birthday. An incredible turn out with 74 talks...
From Putting People First
How social networks influence our behaviours
Are some behaviours more contagious than others? This is the question that Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler address in their book, Connected: The Surprising...
From Putting People First
Making design research less of a mystery
David Sherwin argues in his blog that there are a few eerie similarities between the plotting of mystery novels and how designers should document design research...
From Putting People First
Can you design a service?
Jeff Howard alerts us in his “Design for Service” blog to the publication “Can You Design a Service?” by the Danish agency 1508. “Six brief case studies showcase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK's Online Plan for Public Services
Online Plan for Public Services: ' ... Everyone in the country is to be given a personalised webpage for accessing Government services within a year as part of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Searches in Local Shelf Inventory
In StorefrontBacktalk: " ... The capability for a search engine to have a current and comprehensive list of products (SKU and sub-SKU) for every retailer in a given...
From My Biased Coin
Reading a Research Paper
In the category of "waste nothing", here's a handout I wrote way back when (over a decade ago) that I use for my standard graduate seminar class on How to Read. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interface Appeal in BI Tools
A good report, includes overview of a number of common BI packages. Requires registrationEase of Use and Interface Appeal in Business Intelligence Tools, by Cindi...
From Schneier on Security
Acrobatic Thieves
Some movie-plot attacks actually happen: They never touched the floor
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fax App With Signatures
A Fax App for the IPhone that includes a digital signature mode. Faxes are one of the oldest digital transmission modes. Yet despite their age, there is still...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Janie Irwin - 2010 ACM-W Athena Lecturer
We celebrate Ada Lovelace Day today by honoring Janie Irwin, recent recipient of the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award. I have known Janie for a while now, and she is...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Ada Lovelace Day: A Researcher I Admire
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day we write about technical women we admire. Last year, I wrote about how much I admired my fellow CU-WISE executives. This year...
From Wild WebMink
? Public Statements
OpenSolaris Board results, Stallman on SaaS, ACTA text leaked and seaweed.
From Schneier on Security
Dead on the No-Fly List
Such "logic": If a person on the no-fly list dies, his name could stay on the list so that the government can catch anyone trying to assume his identity. Butanyone's...
From Computational Complexity
What I'm Doing Over Spring Break, Part I
It's spring break at Northwestern and as I write this Tuesday morning, I'm on a plane from San Francisco to Denver on my way to Columbus, Ohio. My kids have their...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ada Lovelace Day 2010
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Herb Sorensen Articles
An index of a number of articles by consumer behavior scientist Herb Sorensen. See also my review of his recent book and other technical pieces on shopper behavior...
From The Eponymous Pickle