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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
Smart Cities Critique
Think of Smart Cities as extremely complex version of process control. With the added complexity of a mix of difficult to predict people. It also reminds me of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Failed Resource Predictions
Some examples of failed resource availability projections. In many cases some huge misses despite the apparent sophistication of the models. Forecasting models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Better Products
Thoughtful piece in GigaOM: About the process of coming up with new products and extensions. Starting with knowing what has been done before. This article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Search Graph Means to Retail
What Facebook Search Graph Means to Retail. In POPAI: " " ... Basically, the bigger a brand’s fan base and, more importantly, the more active they are, the more...
From Putting People First
Dan Hill’s critique of the smart cities movement
Dan Hill (of CityofSound, ARUP, Sitra and now Fabrica fame) is not only extremely prolific, but his writing is also very much to the point. His latest Smart City...
From Putting People First
Launch of Global Ethnographic, a free online journal
Global Ethnographic is a brand new, general interest, peer reviewed web journal featuring the field research and perspectives shaping our social world. Free and...
From Putting People First
The four waves of user-centered design
Dr. William Gribbons is director of the Master of Science in Human Factors in Information Design and founder and senior consultant of the Design and Usability Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Waves for Fast Device Communication
New to me in New Scientist: " ... This type of electromagnetic wave stays at the interface between the surface of an object and the air, rather than travelling...
From Apophenia
mourning and public-ness
When I ranted about how the media’s incessant desire to get the story was not allowing the people of Newtown to mourn, I did not expect that I’d be mourning the...
From My Biased Coin
Friday Ruminations
It's felt like a bad few weeks at Harvard.Not that anything actually BAD has happened, like an inexplicable paper rejection or some interdepartmental fight or anything...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Acquires Minority Stake in Verix
Reported about " ... Verix, Inc., a designer and developer of enterprise performance management and analytics solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. ... ".Verix...
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Life without Wine, Whiskey, or Even St. Germain
I used to be deeply suspicious of non-drinkers. I assumed that everyone who categorically refused alcohol (who was neither a Muslim nor a former addict) was using...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Anchor
Webpage says that it's "the most effective lightweight, portable anchor around." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reducing MapReduce
Vincent Granville on What MapReduce can't do. " ... We discuss here a large class of big data problems where MapReduce can't be used - not in a straightforward...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
SAS Stepping Up But What About Others
Although the number of corporations taking action to address the growing shortage of STEM) graduates, particularly in computing, some companies, such as SAS are...
From Schneier on Security
Pentagon Staffs Up U.S. Cyber Command
The Washington Post has the story: The move, requested by the head of the Defense Department's Cyber Command, is part of an effort to turn an organization that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Memory Irrelevance and Tagging
Oliver Sacks, in the NRB on the emergence of memory, and the curious way that too many connections between irrelevant items in our memory can be a problem. And...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Pays Attention to CPG Marketing
In Adage: Imagine the potential data generated here. " ... Facebook held its first CPG Summit Jan. 17, and has hired Erin Hunter, formerly of Procter & Gamble,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WiFi Thermostats
In Technology Review: An update and overview on an obvious idea. We will see more about this. And of course the objections to one more erosion of our privacy...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP