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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
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From Schneier on Security
Petition the NSA to Subject its Surveillance Program to Public Comment
I have signed a petition calling on the NSA to "suspend its domestic surveillance program pending public comment." This is what's going on: In a request today...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Notes Technology In Letter to Voting Commission
On Friday the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, established earlier this year by Executive Order, will hold its first public meeting in Washington...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Growing With Innovation
Short piece on the use of innovation and digital marketing to improve CPG sales. " ... A new report by the GMA and PwC found that despite lagging sales in 2012...
From Schneier on Security
Finding Sociopaths on Facebook
On his blog, Scott Adams suggests that it might be possible to identify sociopaths based on their interactions on social media. My hypothesis is that scienceknow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Creative People
In Fastcompany. Good view. Frequently an issue. Especially if the people involved do not have the very best people skills. How many of us do. Individual creativity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE and Industrial Data in the Cloud
In CWorld: " ... GE thinks it's time to put industrial data in the cloud. The company is introducing a platform for collecting and analyzing data from industrial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fake Shops
In our innovation labs we experimented with using false front displays to set contexts for consumers in a laboratory. Interesting and obvious idea, but the coverings...
From Schneier on Security
Cost/Benefit Questions NSA Surveillance
John Mueller and Mark Stewart ask the important questions about the NSA surveillance programs: why were they secret, what have they accomplished, and what do they...
From Wild WebMink
Brazil’s Half-Miracle
On all the social media networks, there’s a hashtag that I have kept seeing the last few days: #ChangeBrazil, associated with unrest across Brazil. Since I may...
From Putting People First
Service design in the physical space and why it makes sense to design for a minority
The physical environment in which a service plays out has a significant influence on the experience of a service. So it’s not uncommon for service design projects...
From Putting People First
New Ericsson report on needs of today’s smartphone and mobile internet users
A new Ericsson ConsumerLab report, Unlocking Consumer Value, identifies the needs of today’s smartphone and mobile internet users. “The rapid uptake of smartphones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smaller Tablets
Looking a several projects that aim to deliver information to small executive groups. Mobile is esential. The question is what are the likely formats of theNow...
From Wild WebMink
Porn Summit Actively Harmful
The government clearly wishes to be seen to be doing something about the issues of children viewing pornography and of child pornography. To this end they have called...
From Schneier on Security
Details of NSA Data Requests from US Corporations
Facebook (here), Apple (here), and Yahoo (here) have all released details of US government requests for data. They each say that they've turned over user datamuch...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Why Game Designers Should Understand Procedural Rhetoric
I am sometimes asked why I think stories in games need to improve. Considering I'm studying nonlinear stories in games for my PhD project, I was for a long time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DunnHumby Buys Standard Analytics
Just announced. A further indication of movement of more data gathering and integrating companies moving towards the use of stronger predictive analytics. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sandra Hughes Coaching Strategies
Former colleague Sandra Hughes, For a time chief privacy office of Procter & Gamble, has just set up a blog: Sandra Hughes Strategies. Check it out. She does...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Secrecy and Personal Privacy
In an excellent essay about privacy and secrecy, law professor Daniel Solove makes an important point. There are two types of NSA secrecy being discussed. It's...
From The Eponymous Pickle