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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 Schneier on Security
Cybercrime as a Tragedy of the Commons
Two very interesting points in this essay on cybercrime. The first is that cybercrime isn't as big a problem as conventional wisdom makes it out to be. We have...
From Wild WebMink
Standards and Telecoms
A key insight into the UK Open Standards Consultation is that some of the opposition to truly open standards – ones without restrictions on implementation – comes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slashdot's Business Intelligence
The iconic Slashdot site has opened a new portal: SlashBI that focuses on business intelligence. " ... SlashBI is designed to offer the latest news and expert...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gmail Meter
I used Google's Gmail Meter for the first time today. If you use Gmail for significant quantities of mail, it is an excellent way to understand your email uses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Chain Solutions Wins Innov8
I mentioned in a recent post that I had a conversations with Health Chain Solutions LLC: It was reported today that " ... they have been selected as the innovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Catalina Acquires Modiv Media
We worked with early forms of Modiv Media in store scanning devices and location oriented processes. Even provided some design adjustments when it was being delivered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being an Analytic Entrepreneur
Analytics Entrepreneur. Vincent Granville is highlighted and interviewed. An interesting concept that is detailed here. I think it makes sense to think of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Simons Foundation Awards UC Berkeley $60M to Launch Theory of Computing Institute
This morning, the University of California, Berkeley, announced a $60 million grant from the Simons Foundation – which seeks ”to advance the frontiers of research...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Computing was among the excitement this past weekend at the 2nd
From Schneier on Security
When Investigation Fails to Prevent Terrorism
I've long advocated investigation, intelligence, and emergency response as the places where we can most usefully spend our counterterrorism dollars. Here's anthat...
From Computational Complexity
Berkeley Wins the Simons
As reported today in the New York Times, the Simons Foundation has chosen U. C. Berkeley to host the new Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, a $6,000,000...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Podcast Series - The Campus Coder
Glen Gordon and Ed Donahue have a new podcast series, The Campus Coder. The first podcast is with Chevon Christie Chevon Christie is a student developer in...
From Putting People First
To really understand social media, you must also understand online communities
When we talk about social media we are really only talking about tools that we can use to help us and the people we engage to achieve a task. To make a success...
From Putting People First
The demise of the ethnographic monograph
As ethnographic practice has spilled out into the broader world of design and policy-making, business strategy and marketing, the monograph has not remained the...
From Putting People First
Extending the experience beyond the device
Tim Todish provides some good examples of companies extending the (user) experience beyond the device as a good way to differentiate from the competition. “Most...
From Putting People First
A retrospective of talks given by ethnographers at Lift Conference since 2006
Of all the conferences that are dedicated to discussions on technology and society, there
From Putting People First
Researching meaning: making sense of behaviour
In his last article Simon Norris, founder and CEO of Nomensa, outlined a simple model
From Putting People First
Gamification and UX: where users win or lose
In this long article, Peter Steen H
From The Eponymous Pickle