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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
Smart tools to reduce our impact on the environment
The latest issue of UPA’s UX Magazine is devoted to sustainable design, and one of the articles is by Experientia. In their contribution, Experientia collaborators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executive Decisions: Goals and Metrics
In InformationWeek, good article and case study:" ... The terms "scorecard" and "dashboard" are often used interchangeably, but there's an important distinction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Innovation Marches on
Lots of interesting details in this report:Booz & Company's 2009 edition of the Global Innovation 1000 report finds large R&D spenders are keeping the pace when...
From Schneier on Security
The Security Implications of Windows Volume Shadow Copy
It can be impossible to securely delete a file: What are the security implications of Volume Shadow Copy? Suppose you decide to protect one of your documents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Anthropologist Finds Worldwide Traits
An article in the Cincinnati Enquirer on the work of Andrew Manning, P&G anthropologist. P&G finds worldwide consumers share traits.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Suggesting Alternative Spending
Not surprising, but some ot the details are interesting:Suggesting Alternative Ways to Spend Affects Consumers' Purchase Decisions ' ... It
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Science in a Conceptual Age
Intriguing piece in CACM on how the game industry is requiring more skilled programmers that in the past would have gone to industrial research labs. I would also...
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprinting RFID Chips
This research centers on looking at the radio characteristics of individual RFID chips and creating a "fingerprint." It makes sense; fingerprinting individual...
From Putting People First
Our misguided focus on brand and user experience
If there is a future for designers and marketers in big business, it lies not in brand, nor in
From Computational Complexity
Who Pays for Trips?
If Professor Alice at Faber College visits Dr. Bob at the University of Southern North Dakota, who should cover Alice's expenses? It depends on who does the asking...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovering Patterns in Data
Blog discovered: Neoformix: Discovering and Illustrating patterns in Data. Some interesting visualization examples, including most recently, exploring the 9/11...
From Putting People First
Four key principles of mobile user experience design
In a long article on Boxes and Arrows, Dakota Reese Brown suggests an alternative view of the mobile space based on principles rather than isolated tactics. “Prior...
From Putting People First
IDEA 2009: Social and experience design
The IDEA Conference took place in Toronto on September 15-16, with a focus on social experience design. Boxes and Arrows, in collaboration with the IA Institute...
From Putting People First
Designing the online shopping experience
Two articles in UX Magazine look at ways of improving the retail user experience online: Mind the gap Which types of brands have the greatest opportunity to improve...
From Schneier on Security
Cyberwarfare Policy
National Journal has an excellent article on cyberwar policy. I agree with the author's comments on The Atlantic blog: Would the United States ever use a morereport...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unitasking Rampant
Do we need the twitterpeek?. A unitasking individual piece of hardware? I agree with BusinessWeek it's a case where less is less.
From Return 42;
Is Technology Easy?
In the 1993 paper The early history of Smalltalk, published in the ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28, Issue 3, Alan Kay wrote: A twentieth century problem is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Markets from Communities
From Josh Bernoff in Groundswell: A number of interesting case studies about doing market research more economically and accurately by using communities of your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of TV
A good catch up piece on technologies, incentives and directions re this topic. What will the consumer engagement media-mix of the very near future be? ... The...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM