One of the stories that's making the rounds right now concerns Adam Orth, a (former) Creative Director at Microsoft who caused a ruckus by cramming his foot in his Twittermouth. He did so while ...

Welcome to my new blog, called On Second Thought. I have borrowed both the name and the concept for this blog from my new book, the full title of which is On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's ...

It is generally well-understood that antimalware programs—the software which detects computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and other threats to your system—work by scanning files using signatures ...

Extra: Preece et al. Interaction Design, page 343 for an introduction to the method and section 13.4 for a basic description of the method. Read the box: Dilemma on page 411 as well. Definition: ...

Heuristic analysis, an e-mail scanning technique that sifts through e-mail messages for the characteristics and behaviors that are unique to spam messages, may help. Dandelions might look pretty, but ...

I recently received a few questions about heuristics and thought the answers may be of broader interest than just to the person asking. 1- What is the difference between the detection by generic ...