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Codebreaking: Humans are the weakest link
People are the weakest link in all computer systems. We hear about the best cryptography money can buy: integrity checking, sender/receiver identity authentication, digital signatures, and then someone leaves a list of passwords on a post-it note stuck above a … Continue reading
Posted in Design
Tagged analysis, artificial intelligence, bletchley, code breakers, cognitive science, computers, cryptography, Design, enigma, herivel, phishing, rejewski, security, support, technology, usability
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Human-computer interaction: Can you see what it is yet?
The recent furore over the 2012 Olympics Logo reminds me of how people react to the user interfaces they find on everything they interact with, from websites to washing machines. If an interface, like a logo, is well-designed, no one … Continue reading
Is the future of techology to be found in fiction?
When Jurassic Park was on at the cinema, I remember laughing out loud with a couple of my computing mates when the young girl, Lex, looks at a computer screen and says: “It’s a UNIX system. I know this.” At … Continue reading
Posted in Musings
Tagged computers, direct manipulation, future, jules verne, jurassic park, linux, minority report, Musings, science fiction, tom cruise, unix
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Are computers making us stupid?
In 1996, I listened to Lofty Zadeh, the daddy of fuzzy logic, give his keynote speech at the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Design’ conference, Stanford University. He described the excitment of artificial intelligence in the 1950s and how Marvin Minsky, father … Continue reading
Posted in Musings
Tagged artificial intelligence, computers, daniel liebskind, Design, future, lofty zadeh, marvin minsky, Musings, MYCIN
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