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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
Jobs at Wal-Mart
Harder to get a job at Wal-Mart than be admitted to an Ivy League school.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Killing the HS Reunion
Is Facebook killing the school reunion? In Tech Review. Would like to see fuller stats, but my own observation is that they connect many more people that might...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarty QR Tags
A good example of local QR tag usage:" ... Three local entrepreneurs are taking QR code capabilities to the next level, allowing businesses to compile valuable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazons Lending Library
Librarians react to Amazon's lending library. " ... The stakes are incredibly high for public libraries right now. Federal, state, and local budgets are tight....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Riding the Wave of E-Books
Though I was an early examiner of e-Book readers for possible training applications I an still not an every day user of the idea. Some interactions with colleagues...
From Putting People First
Natural user interfaces are all about alignment
August de los Reyes, design director of Artefact Group (formerly of Microsoft Surface), was one of the speakers at MIX11, a Microsoft organised gathering of developers...
From Putting People First
Redesigning banking with behavioral economics in mind
Neil Savage reports in the MIT Technology Review how, by studying customers and rethinking the user interface, designers find ways to make online banking more enjoyable...
From Putting People First
Augmented Reality and transitioning out of the legacy internet
Tish Shute of Ugotrade interviews Bruce Sterling ahead of the Augmented Reality Event, where Bruce is a keynote speaker. As Bruce Sterling points out, Augmented...
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR 2011!
As regular readers know, I’ve been co-organizing annual workshops on
From Putting People First
Serious play: the business of social currency
Social currency is shared information that encourages further social encounters. It’s not a new concept, but the social web increases its prevalence. In the web...
From Putting People First
Forever online: Your digital legacy
Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever? In this special report, newscientist.com editor...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-07
Skype bug gives attackers access to Mac OS X machines Serious, exploitable bug in the Mac version of Skype. Best not to run Skype until they have it fixed. Actually...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Science of Retailing: Assortment Planning
Today at UC, Heard Marshall Fisher talk about work in chapter 2 of his book: The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics are Transforming the Supply Chain andhis...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Noise Pollution and Squid
It literally blows holes in their heads: In the study, led by Michel Andr
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids in Space
There are live squids on the last Endeavor mission.
From Geeking with Greg
The value of Google Maps directions logs
Ooo, this one is important. A clever and very fun paper, "Hyper-Local, Direction-Based Ranking of Places" (PDF), will be presented at VLDB 2011 later this year...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM