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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 My Biased Coin
STOC deadline extended
Due to inclement weather, the deadline for STOC submissions has been extended to Monday, November 5, at 5:00 pm EST. Check the STOC web page for more details
From Computational Complexity
Sandy Extension
The deadline for submissions to STOC has been extended to Monday, Nov 5 2012 5:00 p.m. EST.
From Wild WebMink
Air New Zealand Goes Hobbit
Their safety video is the first I’ve actually wanted to watch all the way to the end…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Marketing and Video
In eCommerceTimes: A look at new content marketing. Video is getting more powerful as a tool. We have seen this for some time. The more attention gathering,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Radical Transparency
What is the value of radical transparency? " ... Radical transparency, the idea of everyone knowing everything, could actually be a major driver of increased organizational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mouse Facing Extinction
Is the mouse facing extinction? Its now more about touching a screen but the finger is still too big, and we still want partial touches and hover-overs as an alternative...
From Putting People First
Manuel Castells on the rise of alternative economic cultures
Prof Manuel Castells is regarded as one of the most-cited sociologists in the world. When most of us were still struggling to connect our modems in the 1990s, the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Mathematical Mischief Night
Real implications from a fake-paper prank? Composite of src1, src2 Marcie Rathke was not among the speakers whose talks I heard at the Algorithms Workshop at St...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Random Thoughts
A friend of mine posted the picture below on Facebook recently. About as basic, and wrong, random number generator as one can get. But it brings home a point –this...
From Schneier on Security
Doping in Professional Sports
I updated a 2006 essay of mine on the security issues around sports doping.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Design of Business
Recently brought to my attention again: Roger Martin's 2009 book: The Design of Business, Why Design Thinking is the next competitive Advantage. It has bee on...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Two Interesting Games With a Message
I found a couple of interesting games after reading Kotaku's recent article The Complicated Truth Behind Games That Want to Change the World. One has more gameplay...
From My Biased Coin
WSDM 2013 Accepted Papers
The list of papers accepted to WSDM 2013 is now up. Looks like the usual fun mix of papers.
From Schneier on Security
Dan Ariely on Dishonesty
Good talk, and I've always liked these animators.
From Putting People First
Book: Meta Products – Building the Internet of Things
Meta Products Meaningful Design For Our Connected World by Wimer Hazenberg and Menno Huisman BIS Publishers, 160 pages 2012 Meta Products discusses the rise of...
From Putting People First
Designing products for value
By encouraging more focused collaboration among multiple functional groups (notably marketing and sales, operations, engineering/R&D, and procurement), these leaders...
From Putting People First
Google and the UX challenge of augmented reality
The new Google FieldTrip app probes the question: What digital information do you want to see overlaid on the physical world? A challenge that Bruce Sterling describes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Invests in Global e-Comerce
Always impressed with Tesco's retail technology savvy, so this is worth following:With 6,234 stores in 13 countries and annual sales of 72 billion pounds ($116...
From Schneier on Security