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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 The Noisy Channel
Google
I wish I could take even a gram of credit for this! I’m really proud of my colleagues for rolling out this new design that encourages and facilitates exploratory...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What do you need to know?
The Microsoft Job Blog recently has a two part interview study guide set of posts. In the second (Microsoft interview study guide: Part II of II) there was a long...
From Computational Complexity
Ralph Kramden: Your wait is over! 3D-TV is here!
(This was written before I saw Lance's post on gadgets. This post could be called an unintentional co-post. Is that a word? Now it is!) In The Honeymooners...
From Schneier on Security
Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
As the details of the Times Square car bomb attempt emerge in the wake of Faisal Shahzad's arrest Monday night, one thing has already been made clear: Terrorism...
From Putting People First
Service Design Thinks
Nick Marsh has been organising several service design ‘Thinks’ events in London: ‘Service Design at Scale’ (November 2009) and ‘Service Design from Scratch’ (March...
From Putting People First
Peter Merholz: The Want Interview
The founder & president of Adaptive Path explains why they
From Putting People First
Bill Moggridge blogs
Bill Moggridge, the legendary industrial and interaction designer, IDEO co-founder and now director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, started his own...
From Putting People First
The many differences between mobile and desktop interaction
Interacting with a mobile device is very different from our interaction with desktop devices. But what does that mean precisely? In a long article for the Journal...
From Putting People First
Reading in a digital age
Sven Birkerts wites in the American Scholar on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Art of the Twitter Pitch
Some good if sometimes obvious comments about the idea of the Twitter Pitch. Common sense ideas about how to use 140 characters to convince someone of something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Social Media to Complain
An instructive example of consumers using social media to complain:Parents Use Social Media to Sound Off on J&J RecallMany Take to Blogs, Facebook, Twitter to Complain...
From My Biased Coin
SIGCOMM PC, Not Liveblogging
I am absolutely, positively, not liveblogging from the SIGCOMM PC, as that is, I am rightly told, a bad idea. But these are my impressions after the fact. (I'm...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saffron is Cool Vendor
I have mentioned Saffron Technology a number of times in this blog. Visited them first about four years ago and have had recent conversations. An announcement today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Consumer
Future Consumer, by Carte Blanche. Includes Arnaud Frade of TNS Group, who I have heard on this subject before. Nothing very new, but some good points to repeat...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
First Course Outline
Is everyone this excited about their first course outline? I'm not sure why, but I'm feeling sort of giddy about it. I mean, sure, I've TA'ed before, and taught...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesla Predicted Blackberry
Physicist Nikola Tesla is said to have predicted the Blackberry type device over a century ago. Best known for his invention of alternating current, high energy...
From Schneier on Security
Preventing Terrorist Attacks in Crowded Areas
On the New York Times Room for Debate Blog, I -- along with several other people -- was asked about how to prevent terrorist attacks in crowded areas. This isCameras...
From Putting People First
Findability and Exploration: the future of search
Stijn Debrouwere, a Belgian information architect, has published a long Peter Morville-inspired post on findability related issues. “The majority of people visiting...
From Putting People First
Smart Things
After posting the first chapter of his new book Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design (see also this earlier post), Mike Kuniavsky is now doing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog