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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
Five perspectives on the future of the human interface
The next generation of apps will require developers to think more of the human as the user interface. It will become more about the need to know how an app works...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Associative Analytics
It has been a while since I took a look at Saffron Technology's blog. I know several of the people involved, and their tech is solid. They are now emphasizing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytic Bridge.
Have mentioned this a few times, Analytic Bridge pulls together a number of useful online resources for data science that are worth subscribing to. It is tough...
From Writing
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Erlang, Day 2
After learning some basic Erlang syntax on Day 1, I take on the second Erlang chapter, which introduces some more interesting concepts.Erlang, Day 2: ThoughtsI'm...
From Writing
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Erlang, Day 1
After a long hiatus, I'm finally back to working my way through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. After finishing up Scala, I'm now on the 5th language, Erlang, though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Anthropology
Have always been interested in how elements of sociology can be digitized and interpreted. Facebook and Twitter are examples of this can be done today. But how...
From Putting People First
Book: Digital Anthropology
Digital Anthropology Edited by Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller Berg Publishers, Oct 2012 328pp Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human...
From Putting People First
Anthropology of mid-sized startups
In their natural habitats, social species organize into characteristic groups. Gazelles form herds, wolves form packs, and ants form colonies. Humans, in the same...
From Putting People First
Leaving our mark: What will be left of our cities?
From our cities, to our farms, to our rubbish, humans have firmly stamped their mark across the planet. Humanity’s impact on the globe is so great and varied that...
From Putting People First
Human face of big data
This past week featured a worldwide experiment conducted via a mobile app: The Human Face of Big Data. On September 26, 2012, Against All Odds Productions launched...
From Putting People First
Bridging the gap between humans and computers
Heather Kelly reports on the CNN website on The Atlantic’s recent Big Science Summit in San Jose, California: We have voice-controlled assistants on our phones,...
From Putting People First
Philips Design: From data to meaning for people
On October 22nd, 2012, Philips Design organized a special seminar and workshop to explore how businesses can innovate by translating ‘Big Data’ into value for people...
From Putting People First
NEXT Service Design videos
NEXT Service Design is the European conference for designing digital services, which took place on 8 October in Berlin. It focuses on design methods including design...
From Putting People First
The Slow Revolution
The last ten years has seen a burgeoning of the Slow Movement in all aspects of life from management, travel and education to science and work. On 4 October, the...
From My Biased Coin
Posts from FOCS (Part 2)
Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler.[Editor: First-year grad student Mark Bun of Harvard contributes a summary...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
There's Nothing Like a Good Book!
I understand there are good reasons to push for more digital texts, and for the "fully immersive digital experience". But there is nothing like a good book, there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Software
In CACM: On Mars,the use of autonomous software. " .... Among the most innovative applications NASA computer scientists have contributed to the mission is Autonomous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Presentation
Prep for a presentation led me to this recent Oracle presentation on advanced analytics and in-database techniques.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
More Interview With Kurt Gödel
Part II of the GLL exclusive src Kurt Gödel has assented to our publishing the second part of the interview we conducted with him a year ago. We had his assent...
From The Eponymous Pickle