A new issue of International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction is out. From the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, a special issue on ubiquitous and collaborative computing. From Fibreculture Journal, a special issue on ubiquitous or pervasive computing. Infamous for failing to commercialize the technologies it invented, Xerox's R&D subsidiary PARC has a new strategy for innovation — make money. Sam Knight goes inside UCL’s Financial Computing Centre, where the brightest brains on the planet are now calculating our future. The first chapter from Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers by John MacCormick. From Edge, George Dyson on a universe of self-replicating code (and more and more and more and more and more and more on Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe). Evgeny Morozov reviews Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. As the new iPad debuts, a look back at the greatest stories ever written about the first computers. Computers dominate how we live, work and think: There could be bizarre consequences and humans may be on the losing end of progress.
