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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 Putting People First
Why behavior change apps fail to change behavior
“Too many well-intentioned products fail because they feel like ‘haftas,’ things people are obligated to do, as opposed to things they ‘wanna’ do,” writes Nir Eyal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gesture Control
Using a Wifi doppler shift to do gesture control. In Hackaday. Not sure how practical this is, but an interesting play. Includes a demonstration video.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Surely You Are Joking?
A new way to write mathematics Vladimir Voevodsky won the Fields Medal in 2002 for his work on homotopy theory of algebraic varieties. Using his pioneering methods...
From Schneier on Security
My Fellowship at the Berkman Center
I have been awarded a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, for the 2013–2014 academic year. I'm excited about this;...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stickers Sell in Japan
In Nextweb: A phenomenon that I had not heard of. And based on my experience it is hard to see how blocks of emoticons could sell as a service. But it is selling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for Active Design
Sites scrape lots of information to get better understanding of the user. So why can't this information be used to create active interface design, and a better...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 Urges Case Data Accuracy
Sometimes the very obvious need to get some little things correct can make all the difference. Here is just one simple example from GS1. Get your data right first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty Via Social Intelligence
Interesting piece from ..... Susan Ganeshan, Chief Marketing Officer at newBrandAnalytics, writes .... " ... Various industries use social intelligence to make...
From Wild WebMink
Virtual Choir 4 from Eric Whitacre
Unexpectedly awesome. When he described it (“synths”, “pop feel”) it sounded like it might be a step down from the previous 3, but it’s actually very good. And...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid–Bacteria Symbiotic Relationships
This is really interesting research. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
POPAI on Front End Shopper Behavior
In POPAI: A diagrammatic look at shopper front end and check out behavior. This is an infographic that I like, because it shows how things work, as opposed to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supermarkets and Customers Dropping Loyalty Programs
In Time: Numbers of people in the programs are still increasing, but number of programs are decreasing. A fairly extensive article about this mini trend. Customers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsoring Computational Sustainability Track at AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13)
The following entry is a special contribution to this blog from Douglas H. Fisher, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. This year Doug...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Humans
In the Atlantic: The Future of humans in the approaching era of artificial intelligence. Its is coming, but I am still skeptical of the timing predicted, but...
From Schneier on Security
F2P Monetization Tricks
This is a really interesting article about something I never even thought about before: how games ("F2P" means "free to play") trick players into paying for stuff...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Laura Blankenship
Laura Blankenship teaches at the all-girls Baldwin School.and is also one of my favorite CS education bloggers. In this interview she talks about some of the issues...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty and Gamification
We worked with several applications using game dynamics in our enterprise. So I have been been involved in the concept for years. I have given several talksRajat...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Japan-US Network Opportunity: R&D for “Beyond Trillions of Objects”
The NSF has recently issued a new program solicitation- Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS: JUNO), Japan-US Network Opportunity: R&D for “Beyond Trillions...
From Computational Complexity
Combinatorics use to not get any respect. But because of Erdos...
(This blog is based on things I heard at the Erdos 100th Bday Conference) I have spend the last week at the Erdos 100th bday conference. One point that was made...
From Putting People First