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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 digital age of rights
The digitally deprived have rights too, says BBC News columnist Bill Thompson, who is quite upset about a new French law: “If it is unacceptable to cut people off...
From Putting People First
What you don
Olga Morawczynski, a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh and has spent more than a year investigating customer adoption and usage in both urban and...
From Putting People First
danah boyd on new habits in a connected world
danah boyd, a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, got incensed at an Italian...
From Putting People First
Personal transformations in the Internet Age
In a BoingBoing guest blog, Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future, discusses the personal transformations everyone goes through as they...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Fulfilling Expectations at Our Annual Conference/Symposium
One of the things I love best and hate the most about my job is reviewing at the evaluations for our annual conference. I love it because it is so clear from the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.6 (July 14, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] USACM Completes Reorganization [3] USACM Members Testify on Cybersecurity [4] USACM Co-Chair Outlines Mechanics of Behavioral...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking Makes Life Easier
In AdAge, an article that makes the case that tracking benefits consumers and makes online life easier by not repeating the same message over and over. This is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Coupons at Safeway
Safeway has now expanded the use of online coupons to all of its stores. More evidence of the movement from paper to the prevalence of online promotions.
From Putting People First
Playful innovation and simplicity by Philips
In an exploration into how games can add value to the innovation process, Philips Design has created
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-14
Cats 'exploit' humans by purring More scientific research which tells us what we would already know if we weren't so busy anthropomorphising...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on New Electronic Voting Legislation
USACM recently sent a letter to Representative Rush Holt commenting on his new electronic voting legislation. The bill, H.R. 2894, is similar to Rep. Holt's earlier...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Days of the Logo Numbered?
Martin Lindstrom in Branding Strategy Insider blog. ' ... Let
From CERIAS Blog
Cybersecurity Legislation
Cyber seems to be one of the buzzwords in Washington these days, with the recent botnet attacks generating a lot of extra noise. This has included at least onebellicose...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Using the Golden Ratio
From the DownloadSquad ' .. The Golden Ratio has been used in design for ages. Such greats as DaVinci, Michaelangelo, Rembrandt, Mondrian, and LeCorbusier utilized...
From Return 42;
Many Ways to Tag Taggables
Today, I was looking for a current version of acts_as_taggable for a small Rails project I am working on. It seems like there are more than a hand full at the moment...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Over 800 Reports of Health Data Breaches in California this Year
According to Wired.com's Threat Level, the new California law requiring "organizations in California to report suspected incidents of intentional and unintentional...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 13
July 14 Meeting: The Election Assistance Commission will meet and hold a public hearing. Part of the agenda will focus on accessibility and voting technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demonstration Projects at Wolfram
I know I have been harping on Wolfram Mathematica, but since I have been re-introduced to their suite and have had a chance to scan their offerings I have noticed...
From Putting People First
Nokia patents gestural phone controls
A promotional video earlier today, and now a patent application — too much of a coincidence: “We know that Nokia is looking into more areas than just buttons and...
From Apophenia