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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
The crowd is wise (when it
According to the New York Times, evidence suggests that crowdsourcing succeeds when it
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Big Brother Amazon Remotely Deletes Purchased Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm From Thousands of Kindles No, this is not from The...
From Putting People First
Technology for more than one language, please
Technological tools are not made for people who speak more than one language, and there are many of us: immigrants, travellers, polyglots, emerging market facilitators...
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Book: Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Computer Interaction: Development Process (Series: Human Factors and Ergonomics) by Andrew Sears and Julie A. Jacko (Editors) CRC Press, March 2, 2009 Hardcover...
From Return 42;
Smalltalk-like Message Passing in JavaScript
Every time I am programming something in Objective-C, I just love the way the languages makes use of Smalltalk-like message passing. Also being able to send messages...
From Putting People First
Creating one
Tyler Cowen (Wikipedia), a professor of economics at George Mason University, has written a thought-provoking piece for Fast Company, that is many ways highly complementary...
From CERIAS Blog
Other cybersecurity legislation in the U.S.
In response to my last post, several people have pointed out to me some other initiatives before Congress. Here are some brief comments on a few of them, basedThomas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Network for Researchers
Will Science 2.0 methods like these eliminate the need for research papers?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Orwellian act Removes Orwell Books
Apparently a number of electronic books were removed remotely from Kindle book readers after they were bought and paid for. Included Orwell titles. Thats an advantage...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Determinants of faculty research productivity
Should you hire Ph.D. graduates from top schools in your country? Maybe not: The present analysis however dispels the notion that graduates of high-status doctoral...
From Putting People First
Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications
Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications Leslie MacNeil Weber 2009 Graduate Thesis University of Washington Ethnography, a field of anthropological...
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Financial Times podcasts on connected lives
The Financial Times analyses the implications of a connected planet in this series of roundtable discussions. Connected Lives: the debate – Part 1 Three experts...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - July 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 7)
Here are some items in the July issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. As always, much of the content in CACM is premium content, and free...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Second Leadership Cohort Workshop
We just finished up a trip to Chicago for the second Leadership Cohort workshop. Going back for the second time help us to solidify many of the ideas that we put...
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Futures 2.0: rethinking the discipline
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang of The Institute for the Future has been working recently on a think-piece on what futures would look like if it started now: “If instead...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A few things American academics should know
I sometimes get annoyed at Americans who seem to think that the rest of the world is modeled after them. Here are some things many American academics seem to take...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What FriendFeed got wrong
Don’t you feel sometimes like your brain is running out of storage space? Myself, I am very forgetful. I always seek new tools to extend my brain. FriendFeed is...
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