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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
Experientia article on emerging markets research in Interfaces Magazine
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), contains...
From Putting People First
A Creative Commons inspired barter market in Turin, Italy
Two articles from today’s La Stampa newspaper (translation by Mark Vanderbeeken, Experientia): Bargains without money Luca Indemni – Fabrizio Vespa “Leave your...
From Schneier on Security
FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Certified USB Memory Stick Cracked
Kind of a dumb mistake: The USB drives in question encrypt the stored data via the practically uncrackable AES 256-bit hardware encryption system. Therefore, the...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-08
Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security Show this to every politician: "What we need is security that's effective even if we can't...
From Putting People First
Mobile experts on 2020 trends
Rudy De Waele, co-founder of dotopen, invited a number of mobile experts — including Howard Rheingold, Douglas Rushkoff, Katrin Verclas, Willem Boijens, Fabien...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Commerce Speed
Evan Schuman surveys the speed of mobile commerce in StoreFrontBackTalk. Are our decisions strongly influenced by mobile site speed?
From Schneier on Security
Post-Underwear-Bomber Airport Security
In the headlong rush to "fix" security after the Underwear Bomber's unsuccessful Christmas Day attack, there's far too little discussion about what worked and what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DM Broadcast Today
Of Interest: ' ... We're starting the year off strategically at DM Radio, with a show focused on the many values of Data Modeling. Often associated with improving...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Negotiating Agents
Can Automated Agents Proficiently Negotiate With Humans? ... Exciting research in the design of automated negotiators is making great progress. From CACM.While...
From Computational Complexity
DO NOT do this when choosing books for your class
When I took my first graduate course in complexity theory the professor had FOUR books on the REQUIRED FOR THE COURSE list. I bought all four. He said that We...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Sorting Bottles and Boxes with Processing
(Click the link at the bottom to see the game.)One of my classes this term (a game design grad course) requires the use of Processing: Processing is an open source...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Starter Resources for Robotics Learning
iRobot is probably the best known robotics company in the US. Their Roomba vacuuming robots and other household robots are widely used all over the place including...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-07
Why an Open Source Community Should not cede Leadership to a Commercial Entity This is a useful part of the discussion, apart from...
From Schneier on Security
Gift Cards and Employee Retail Theft
Retail theft by employees has always been a problem, but gift cards make it easier: At the Saks flagship store in Manhattan, a 23-year-old sales clerk was caught...
From Putting People First
Kenya: Taking money out of banks
Since cellphones became widely used in Kenya five years ago, they’ve become the bank card du jour. The Christian Science Monitor reports. “[In Kenya] with a mobile...
From Putting People First
In praise of design-hacking
The Design & Society group within the UK’s Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has published a pamphlet by Scott Burnham...
From Putting People First
How the mobile Internet could change everything
The ubiquity of mobile phones and the growth of the internet will converge in the next decade. Luke Allnutt of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty thinks this is good...
From Putting People First
Will the new mobile era change the world for the better? MIT says
At MIT teams of the Media Lab’s Next Billion Network – our next generation of tech movers and shakers – are exploring new ways to harness the increasingly ubiquitous...
From Putting People First