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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
Book: Rewire – Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection by Ethan Zuckerman W. W. Norton & Company, June 2013 288 pages [Amazon link] Abstract We live in an age of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I never give straight answers
There are some questions that you should never answer. This is true when you are facing justice, your angry wife, or students. Carl Zimmer, a famous science writer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Service Business Intelligence
Thoughts on the concept of self-service business intelligence. True there are many issues to think about, like the use of standards, security and efficiency. Despite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CID Topic Analyst
Brought to my attention, and demonstrated to me today, a product called CID Topic Analyst A means to semantically analyze text and classify its structure for applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Ads as Betrayal
In Adage: Yes, I feel this way, there is something more personal about mobile. But at the end of the day, someone has to pay.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Maybe Centralizing Education Isn't the Best Idea
A year and a half ago, after I had returned from Costa Rica, I extolled the virtues of a centralized (i.e. national) education system. In Costa Rica, an intelligent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ShopperTrak Buys RapidBlue
We tested Shoppertrak extensively in laboratory and live retail environments. A very simple, useful systems for in store behavior analysis. This combination is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation as Usual: The Book
Newly brought to my attention. Unread as yet, but on the stack. Innovation as Usual: How to Help Your People Bring Great Ideas to Life Paddy Miller, Thomas Wedell...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 3
June 4 Hearing: The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee will meet to hear testimony on the security of veterans’...
From Putting People First
Crafting UX – designing the user experience beyond the interface
In large technologically-driven organizations with a broad and complex product range, establishing a user-centric approach to product design can be very challenging...
From Schneier on Security
The Problems with Managing Privacy by Asking and Giving Consent
New paper from the Harvard Law Review by Daniel Solove: "Privacy Self-Management and the Consent Dilemma": Privacy self-management takes refuge in consent. It...
From My Biased Coin
NSF Reviewing Trial Run
Noam Nisan points to the NSF trying out some new rules for reviewing in its upcoming SSS program. There's a lot here to discuss. First, I'm glad to see the NSF...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 June 2013
Finals start later this week. The school year is winding down and what a whirlwind it has been for me. I hit the ground running. Stumbled a bit here and there but...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Trends
Mary Meeker's compendium of internet statistics is one that I remember reading every year. Admit I have not for a few years. But it remains a rich assortmentfrom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Escaping Innovation Brainstorm
Video: Escaping from the brainstorm in Innovation. In the HBR. " ... Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, coauthor of Innovation as Usual, explains how to drive innovation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data from Cheap Phones
In Technology Review: A point I often make in talks I give, the smart phone is a cheap, ubiquitous device that spews data, and thus useful patterns to be detected...
From Putting People First
Interaction14 website live
Next year Interaction14, the top interaction design conference will be in Amsterdam, the second time it is in Europe (after Dublin in 2012). Now the website is...
From Putting People First
The limits of Big Data in the Big City
To be sure, big tech can zap some city weaknesses. But, argues Alec Appelbaum, many urban problems require a decidedly different approach. “The answers that make...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Overcome Silicon Valley
There seems to be an endless stream of articles these days on two closely related topics. The shortage of people in technology who are not white or Asian malesAcademy...
From The Eponymous Pickle