Speaker's Corner columns, published on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at The Inquirer:
The column went on hiatus in June 2009.
- Why security and usability don't go hand in hand: Angela Sasse part 2: Damn users (5/29/09)
- User, you are the weakest link: Angela Sasse, UCL (5/22/09)
- Meet the scientists behind the robo-scientists: Hod Lipson, Cornell University, & Ross King, University of Aberystwyth (4/16/09)
- Guardian tech guru gives away the goods: Mike Bracken, The Guardian (3/19/09)
- Meet the book bloke who made it big on the Web: Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Publishing (2/12/09)
- Human face of the human interface: John M. Carroll, Penn State U (1/19/09)
- Lunching habit takes hacker to academia: Peter Sommer, Forensic investigation (12/14/08)
- Intel's Rattner says the machines will get us in the end: Justin Rattner, Intel (11/12/08)
- Opera maverick is still making waves: Jon Tetzchner, Opera Software (10/8/08)
- Fraudsters hiding under an avalanche of data: David Porter, Detica (9/15/08)
- The ad man cometh: Guy Phillipson, Internet Advertising Bureau (9/10/08)
- Not working for Google changed my life: Alicia Navarro, Skimbit (7/31/08)
- Cryptography pays the piper: Fred Piper (7/9/08)
- Organic computing is the only way forward: Peter Cochrane, Mr Restless (6/19/08)
- Memristor man says the computer age is yet to begin: Stan Williams, Hewlett-Packard (5/28/08)
- Map fetishist goes round the world and back: Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design (5/7/08)
- When geeks grow up: Jeff Jonas, IBM Entity Analytics (4/16/08)
- Artificial Intelligence is still the future: John McCarthy, optimist (4/7/08)
- Synchronicity 'R' Us: Kymberlee Weil, Intronetworks (3/27/08)
- Nobody types quite like you: Peter Horadan (3/5/08) - The way you type can identify you.
- Children are human beings too: Terri Dowty (1/23/08) - Children have already lost the privacy adults are struggling to keep.
- The product is dead, make way for the service: Jim Spohrer, IBM (1/2/08) - IBM helped found the discipline of computer science; now it wants to do the same for services science.
2007
- My XP-powered driverless car never crashed: Mark Campbell, Cornell (12/12/07) - the faculty advisor to Cornell's team in the DARPA Urban Challenge talks about teaching an automated car to merge lanes.
- If man is from Mars, computers are from outer space: Donald A. Norman (11/21/07) - The guru of usability looks into the future.
- Cirrus man sees the logic of sound: Jason Rhode, CEO of Cirrus Logic (10/31/07) - Why is a Kawasaki motorcycle like a mixing desk?
- Cryptographer swaps algorithms for the freezing crypt: Ralph Merkle (10/11/07) - Solving the whole-body frostbite problem.
- Man who wanted to change the world built virtual ones instead: Richard Bartle, MUD-maker, University of Essex (9/19/07) - Self-discovery through creative typing.
- There's a pattern we recognise in Donna Dubinsky's career (8/29/07) - Palm, Handspring, Numenta...Jeff Hawkins!
- Finding the right lock for cryptographic keys: Nicko van Someren, nCipher (7/18/07) - And you thought managing passwords was bad.
- Backstage at the beeb: Michael Cashmore and Ian Forrester (6/27/07) - Is an open API the future of broadcasting?
- Google man proclaims "Summer of Code": Chris di Bona (6/6/07) - Get those students spending their summers flipping bits instead of burgers.
- Microsoft man seeks to re-engineer the Web: Kim Cameron (5/16/07) - ...and reinvent identity.
- RFID virus buster builds wireless firewall: Melanie Rieback (4/25/07) - Stop people from stealing your spy chips.
- Never trust a web site: Marc Hedlund, Wesabe (4/4/07) - Why *not* share your financial data with the world?
- Man who helped invent brain of computer apologises profusely: Stan Mazor (2/21/07) - Is building a chateau in Oregon out of styrofoam adequate penance?
- Getting to the root of open source: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (1/31/07) - Altruism, schmaltruism.
- Father of OS/2, Citrix, is Flying High: Ed Iacobucci (1/10/07) - Why a very light jet is a software service..
2006
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