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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 insideHPC
ISC
The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), to be held this year in Hamburg, Germany, has announced its focus areas (PDF) for the summer conference In addition...
From Putting People First
Sun Dial, a mobile application to alert muslims to prayer
Religious technology may seem like an oxymoron, but as more people obtain mobile phones, iPhones and other devices to help them manage their lives, it’s only natural...
From Putting People First
Service design as the design of activity systems
Jeff Howard draws attention to a recent service design paper by Daniela Sangiorgi of Lancaster University: “Dr. Daniela Sangiorgi’s 2008 presentation from ISDN3...
From Springenwerk Blog
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Deliberately Insecure Web Applications For Learning Web App Security (WebGoat, BadStore, Hacme, SecuriBench, WebMaven) Irongeek's Information Security site with...
From Putting People First
Keynote at CHI by Nokia Research
ACM reports that “a top researcher for Nokia Design [addressed] the need for effective cross-culture design research when developing informed and inspired designs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Queue Now Online
ACM Queue magazine has now moved online. It features a number of articles and blogs on emergent technologies and issues of software engineering.
From The Noisy Channel
Something Jeff Jarvis and I Agree On
Recently I had a bit of a spat with Jeff Jarvis over how he characterizes Google’s transparency. Jarvis has positioned himself as the standard-bearer for all things...
From The Noisy Channel
Something Jeff Jarvis and I Agree On
Recently I had a bit of a spat with Jeff Jarvis over how he characterizes Google’s transparency. Jarvis has positioned himself as the standard-bearer for all things...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Broad-based Cybersecurity Bill Introduced
Senator Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) introduced last week a bill that would increase the role of the federal government in cybersecurity. S. 773 (text not yet...
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR
I am proud to announce that HCIR 2009, the third Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, will take place at the Catholic University...
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR
I am proud to announce that HCIR 2009, the third Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, will take place at the Catholic University...
From The Noisy Channel
Great Blogging Tips from SEOmoz
I know that a number of you here are bloggers and trying to earn greater visibility for your blogs. I suggest you check out the “21 Tips to Earn Links and Tweets...
From insideHPC
ISC
The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), to be held this year in Hamburg, Germany, has issued a call for birds of a feather sessions (PDF) ISC
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Scratch Day
May 16, 2009 is Scratch day! This is an international celebration of Scratch, a software environment designed to help students create, learn, and program. Developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anniversary of Internet Rules
In the NYT: How the Internet Got its Rules. Forty years ago. It should be noted that this is about the Internet, not the Web, which took another twenty yearsDarpanet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone Home Automation Applications
A list of home automation applications for the IPhone. Companies that are providing them. Again an example of what I would like, a one device world. Standards...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Learning and the Social Web: A Call for Papers
We are preparing a special issue for the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psych of Twitter
I have blogged for years, conversed on IRC, run e-mail lists and chat groups. Twitter is the first method I have seen where there was a severe limitation of expression...
From insideHPC
Sun
Forbes has an interesting video detailing a few of the high points in Sun’s technological history.
From insideHPC