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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
Sensing the world with mobile devices
The Nokia Research Center published a short paper on participatory mobile sensing that I like very much because of its human-centred approach: By putting mobile...
From Springenwerk Blog
Barcode Recognition with Google's ZXing on the Mac with TIFF Support
Have you checked out Google's great open source barcode recognition library called ZXing ("zebra crossing")? It's really powerful, free and (halfway) platform independent...
From Putting People First
Experientia and European research projects
Experientia is currently planning to participate in a number of European research projects, and is looking for partners and interesting collaboration opportunities...
From Putting People First
Indian usability conference tackled digital divide and user experience design
As part of the World Usability Day 2008, the Department of Information Technology at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (V.I.I.T.), Pune (India) hosted...
From Putting People First
Interfaces Magazine
Thanks to Vodafone’s Anxo Cereijo-Roibas, I just discovered Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the...
From Putting People First
This is iQ
Matthew Neal contacted me today about a design challenge Toyota recently gave to students at the Royal College of Art London to create a household item that represents...
From Putting People First
Interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo
Peter Merholz, President of Adaptive Path, has published the first part of an interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo....
From Putting People First
Seeing other people
Social networking has become an integral part of our lives, but how much say will users have in what they do with social networking and what it looks like? This...
From Putting People First
IBM research on the use of social software in the workplace
Both Penny Edwards (Headshift) and Bill Ives (Fast Forward) report on recent IBM research on social software in the marketplace: To what extent does your company...
From Putting People First
Don
I find articles with titles like this difficult to digest. What if you are under 30? And especially if the article is filled with banalities - partly put in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lindstrom, Buyology Inc and Brand Image
I attended Martin Lindstrom's talk at Brand Image in Cincinnati today. This was the third time I had been in on Lindstrom presentations. He pointed out that much...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Beauty of Computing is Not in Problem Solving
As part of a recent discussion on the Rebooting Computing listserv Rosemary Michelle Simpson made the following comments in response to a discussion about the discovering...
From insideHPC
New Sun HPC software stack
This in from Sun’s HPC Watercooler The Giraffe team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2 of our HPC Software Stack for Linux. Sun HPC Software, Linux...
From insideHPC
PSC Scores an HP
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [PSC] has announced that they have made arrangements with HP to install and make available a new cluster.
From insideHPC
LSU Names New Director of
LSU has officially announced they have named Dr. Honggao Liu its new Director for High Performance Computing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Numerati
Just got to Stephen Baker's2008 book: The Numerati. Several people had pointed me to it. It is an overview of the advance of numerical methods since WWII. How...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Must a professor grade his students?
On December 10th 2008, Denis G. Rancourt, a full professor in Physics at the University of Ottawa was banned from his campus. Why? Because he refused to grade students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surroundings Matter
In the Neuromarketing blog, a post on the meaning of context of surroundings with regards to behavior. Obvious in the sense of chaos resulting in more chaos inMore...
From The Eponymous Pickle