One story which stands out in and amongst the hype is, how fast-food chain McDonald’s withdrew its AI from the drive-thru. In this talk I will explore exactly what happened.
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Tag: Design
Fighting, typing, and computing
Little did I know that my journey from secretarial training to computer scientist was the classic one women had been
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When women were computers
The first computers were women. They were actually called ‘computers’ as programming was traditionally female clerical work – lowly paid
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Designing for transparency: The Futon Company
In design, an important concept is transparency. And indeed nowadays, there is a lot of lip service given to transparency
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Human-computer 1.5: Upgrading the upgrade
After explaining yesterday in a rather long blog, as it turned out, called Wrestling with Spiderman, how I have created
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