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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
Realities of Mind Control
In Mind Hacks: A discussion of experiments in mind control. All communications, and most specifically, advertising, are methods of influence. So we are rightly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pay Attention Eye Tracking
An interesting concept .... can eye tracking software force you to pay attention during company training? Intrusive, but for some specialized applications. perhaps...
From Schneier on Security
Senator Feinstein Admits the NSA Taps the Internet Backbone
We know from the Snowden documents (and other sources) that the NSA taps Internet backbone through secret-agreements with major U.S. telcos., but the U.S. government...
From Putting People First
Ethnography and speculative fiction
Two new articles on Ethnography Matters: Ethnographies from the Future: What can ethnographers learn from science fiction and speculative design? Laura Forlano...
From Putting People First
Book: People-Centered Innovation
People-Centered Innovation: Becoming a Practitioner in Innovative Research by Pedro Oliveira Biblio Publishing, 2013 194 pages [Amazon] Written with a general audience...
From My Biased Coin
Yelp Reviews News
Giorgos Zervas is in the news again (with Michael Luca of Harvard Business School), this time for his work on filtered/fake Yelp reviews. See also this piece in...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Dictionary For Reading Proofs
What those phrases really mean Eduardo Tengan is a mathematician at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Computation in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has written...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: A Squid that Fishes
The Grimalditeuthis bonplandi is the only known squid to use its tenticles to fish: Its tentacles are thin and fragile, and almost always break off when it's captured...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Plans for 3D Printing in Supermarkets
Tesco as a center for 3D printing, to compete with office services stores, as opposed to printing some of their own products? But certainly also small parts to...
From Schneier on Security
Another Schneier Interview
I was interviewed for Technology Review on the NSA and the Snowden documents.
From My Biased Coin
Dina Katabi, MacArthur Genius
It's always nice to see a computer scientist be on the list for an award that spans over multiple disciplinary areas. This year, we get to congratulate Dina Katabi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Your Data in the Vault
I am not in particular endorsing this company, EVault, but was struck by their posing the question of how companies should store and protect their 'Big Data'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Hype Busting in Advertising
In Adage: In the Advertising Age meeting, a number of sessions on how various advertising technologies link to hype cycles. Hype or not? Including some that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 Blog Reader Survey
It’s been a while since I tried to collect any data about who reads my blog and why. When someone pointed out to me that Skydrive has the ability to create webquick...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Digital Societies and Social Technologies Summer Institute Helps to Bridge Common Interests Among Different Research Communities
The following entry is a special contribution to this blog from John L. King, the W.W. Bishop Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sales and Marketing Misalignment
In E-Commerce Times: Something I have seen first hand , the solutions shown are simplistic, but also powerful. " ... For CRM data to be useful, it needs context...
From Schneier on Security
3D-Printed Robot to Break Android PINs
Neat project. The reason it works is that the Android system doesn't start putting in very long delays between PIN attempts after a whole bunch of unsuccessful...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hammers and Nails and Writing Complicated Code
The ability of students to find complex solutions to simple problems is a constant source of amusement and amazement. I’m probably neither the first or last teacher...
From Putting People First
An ethnography of interaction design practice (PhD dissertation)
Delivering Design: Performance and Materiality in Professional Interaction Design is the title of the PhD dissertation Sarah Goodman defended last year to obtain...
From The Eponymous Pickle