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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 Wild WebMink
? OO.o, TDF and CLAs
Having read LWN’s (paywalled but accessible from here) interview with Mark Shuttleworth, where he is quoted as saying that the formation of The Document Foundation...
From Schneier on Security
CDC on the Zombie Apocalypse
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weigh in on preparations for the zombie apocalypse.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Animations in HTML5 With Hype
Nice potential alternative to using Flash for animations, given the problem with delivering Flash on some popular phones and Pads. Investigating further.
From Schneier on Security
The Normalization of Security
TSA-style security is now so normal that it's part of a Disney ride: The second room of the queue is now a security check area, similar to a TSA checkpoint. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Shopping is Changing
My colleague Walter Riker writes in his blog about how the nature of shopping is changing. Including a number of useful links. He follows trends and tech in retail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Abandons Newspaper Scans
Google has apparently abandoned their very ambitious plan to scan, and interpret the worlds past and present newspapers, and make them available via search. Having...
From Schneier on Security
Forged Subway Passes in Boston
For years, an employee of Cubic Corp -- the company who makes the automatic fair card systems for most of the subway systems around the world -- forged forged and...
From Putting People First
Publicity and the culture of celebritization
Danah Boyd, researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, wrote a long post on the social factors...
From Putting People First
To solve our healthcare crisis, home treatment needs a makeover
Instead of resembling outmoded PCs, home healthcare technology should look and feel like the other devices that surround us, argues Smart Design’s Dave Cronin in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Letters In An Alphabet
My mind tends to wonder a bit when I drive long distances. Sometimes it goes in very weird directions. For some reason I started thinking about encoding characters...
From The Noisy Channel
Going Public
What a day! I’ve been excited about LinkedIn from the moment I joined — and for several years before that — but today has been a unique experience. I hope our celebration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think Insights With Google on Consumer Behavior
New Google site that appears to be quite useful. " .... Welcome to Think Insights with Google At Google we believe data beats opinion. So we work hard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Sells more Kindle Books than Print Books
Time marches on ... Print books are sagging, I never expected this quite so soon. and I did not expect that there would be enough penetration of reading devices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evernote
At Walter Riker's recommendation I have just started to use Evernote to manage notetaking for multiple clients. Overall this is very nicely done and allows you...
From Apophenia
Publicity and the Culture of Celebritization
In this month’s “Rolling Stone,” the magazine published an article called “Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire”. The article tells the story of a 14-year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Causes Spiritual Reaction In Brains
Another post on spiritual/religious reactions seen in brain scans. The subject of a recent BBC documentary. This reminds me of work mentioned in Martin Lindstrom's...
From Computational Complexity
Is Computer Science Cool Again?
Back in 2005 I worried about loss of excitement about computer science among America's youth. Today computers have become almost as commonplace as televisionsFCRC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empathy as Brand Equity in Retail
In my own experience in the retail world I saw several examples of this. Empathy, un linked to a profit motive has a very powerful effect. HBS article.
From Putting People First