Stay updated with breaking news from Jonathan Grudin. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Molly Wright Steenson's introduction to the world of computing came when she was ten years old. From there, her career as a writer, designer, historian, and professor has taken her on a journey of understanding the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence and its relationship with...
Readers praise the columnist’s candor. Also: America in retreat; worried Wordle fans; a dispute over a Native mascot.
By exploring alternative interfaces that transcend the principles behind conventional graphical interfaces, a human-computer interface emerges that is based on language, a richer representation of objects, expert users, and shared control. At recent user interface conferences, several speakers have lamented that the human interface is stuck. We seem to have settled on the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) model, and there is very little real innovation in interface design anymore. Physicists and mathematicians often stretch their imaginations by considering what the world would be like if...