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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification of the Office
Our own experiments showed that it was much easier to gamify external facing systems than to make game dynamics work internally. Internally you have the control...
From Computational Complexity
Analog Adventures
I was 11 forty years ago when Dungeons and Dragons first appeared and by high school many of my friends spent far too many hours embarking on those fantasy adventures...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More IT Outsourcing at Procter & Gamble
More P&G Outsourcing, announced in CGT: " P&G Strikes Big Outsourcing Deal CenturyLink will offer hybrid IT infrastructure services, with access to technologies...
From Schneier on Security
TOTEGHOSTLY 2.0: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: TOTEGHOSTLY 2.0 (TS//SI//REL) TOTEGHOSTLY 2.0 is STRAITBIZARRE based implant...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tweets About TV on the Second Screen
The second screen exists today. I often use a tablet while using TV, as an information source, but rarely to react to what is on the TV, despite predictions that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Geek Squad Summer Academy
This looks interesting. Best Buy runs a summer program for students ages 10 to 18 in conjunction with various non-profits. Students get hands on experience in a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artificial Hands with Feelings
Haptics is the science of touch. New ideas in their application. " .... An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thermal Imaging on Smartphones
Of interest for compliance operations: FLIR Systems Introduces First Thermal Imager Designed for Smartphones - MarketWatch As more sensors emerge, we will be able...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Longer Distance RFID
Making RFID work at long distances. From the always interesting RFID Journal. Usefulness implicatons, and privacy considerations.
From Putting People First
Videos of Day 3 of Interaction14 conference
Is there a Language of Interaction Design [Not yet online] Keynote by Gillian Crampton Smith, Designer/Educator, IUAV University of Venice > Full description Bridging...
From Putting People First
Videos of Day 2 of Interaction14 conference
Body Languages of Interaction Design [38:53] Keynote by Irene Au Design is both art and science, yet while we teach methods and practices for hard design skills...
From Putting People First
Videos of Day 1 of Interaction14 conference
Languaging reality, dialogue and interaction [41:05] Keynote by Klaus Krippendorff, Emeritus Professor of Communication at The Annenberg School for Communication...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Class of Shapes
Mathematicians find a new class of shapes, 400 years later. My first article in a blog (a math newsletter) long ago was on platonic solids. " .... Nearly...
From Writing
Maxing out at 50 concurrent connections with Play or Netty on OS X? Here's a fix.
I recently ran across a strange problem with the Play Framework and Netty: on Linux, my Play app could easily handle thousands of concurrent connections; on OStldr...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and AT&T Partner for the Internet of Things
In CIO Today: Fairly straightforward. " ... To enable an Internet of Things solution as envisioned by IBM and AT&T, you need access to a robust network, intelligent...
From Schneier on Security
TOTECHASER: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: TOTECHASER (TS//SI//REL) TOTECHASER is a Windows CE implant targeting thehere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Delivering Addictive Games
The 'Flappy Bird' Phenomeon it is being called. Now it is being suggested that the idea will soon be used by big marketing companies like Purina and Target. (Good...
From CERIAS Blog
If you are bored or morbidly curious…
The Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota is devoted to research and preservation of the history of computing. They have amassed an interesting...
From CERIAS Blog