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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
Scratching the Surface
Jack Schofield of The Guardian has published a nice short story about the user experience of interacting with the Microsoft surface: “Microsoft was using a shallow...
From Putting People First
Seeing Tomorrow
Adaptive Path organised a panel on service design yesterday. Panellists were Shelley Evenson (CMU), Robert Glushko (UC Berkeley), and Christi Zuber (Kaiser Permanente)...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Mystic Arts of Emergency Informatics
Rescue Robots at the Cologne Germany Building Collapse I finished The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston just before the City Archives...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThinkVine Named Cool Vendor
Thinkvine, a local advanced analytics vendor that I have met with a number of times:Gartner Names ThinkVine 1 of 4
From Putting People First
Sensing context in mobile design
Gabriel White, interaction design director at Punchcut in San Francisco, affirmed context as king in the design of mobile and location-aware computing at Australia’s...
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Tish Shute interviews Mike Kuniavsky on things as services
Tish Shute’s UgoTrade website is quickly becoming one of the prime sites in the field. In the last months she interviewed Andy Stanford-Clark (IBM Master Inventor)...
From Putting People First
The Economist on the end of the
The Economist argues that the demise of a popular but unsustainable business model now seems inevitable: The idea that you can give things away online, and hope...
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Phone designers to improve reality
Rik Myslewski of The Register reports on augmented reality on mobile devices: Future phones will recognize buildings and people by sight and replace reality with...
From Putting People First
Good design at Metropolis
The March issue of Metropolis is focused on products with the theme of Good Design. Several articles are fitting quite well with the topic of this blog: What...
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Google
In a Q&A, user experience director Irene Au explains to Business Week how Google can manage design and consistency in its traditionally bottoms-up culture “As Google...
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Mobile phones: the silver bullet to bridge the digital divide?
In a long post Roxanna Samii reports on her blog on the role of the mobile phone in developing countries, and more in particular on the Gash Barka region in Eritrea...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Educating NITRD
As far as obscure government acronyms go, NITRD is a pretty good one. It stands for the National Information Technology Research and Development program. This program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Reinventing Online Storytelling
Nice AdAge piece about the topic. I think that this can be taken further than just making data accessible, but also making it more valuable by making it interactive...
From insideHPC
You
Hello everyone. We’ve been busy as beavers here at insideHPC HQ, and we’ve got a lot of things coming for you in the next few months. A facelift, some new content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and WPP Fund Neuromarketing Work
The post includes other links and brings up ethical concerns. They have been working on eyetracking for years. Have seen impressive presentations on that work...
From insideHPC
Fault tolerance workshop getting underway
Dan Katz at Louisiana State University sent me a note this morning letting us know that the TeraGrid’s 2009 Fault Tolerance Workshop, “Fault Tolerance for Extreme...
From insideHPC