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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
Me on Cyberwar
During the cyberwar debate a few months ago, I said this: If we frame this discussion as a war discussion, then what you do when there's a threat of war is you...
From Putting People First
Nokia building loyalty among the bankless
The Register reports at length on Nokia’s move into Mobile Money. “For a technology company, Mobile Money is remarkably low-tech. Only the tiniest amount of bandwidth...
From Wild WebMink
Libert
In my “state of the FOSS world” comments during the opening plenary of Open World Forum in Paris recently, I observed how important it is to remember our founding...
From Putting People First
My Twitter feed
It is always a trade-off what to put on Putting People First, and what not. I try to make the call as best as I can. Whatever doesn’t cut the chase, but I still...
From Schneier on Security
Master's Theses in Homeland Security
This is a list of master's theses from the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security, this year. Some interesting stuff in there....
From Putting People First
Data visualisation as an actionable tool in our lives
This week I watched the excellent online documentary “Journalism in the Age of Data“, which is a video report on data visualisation as a storytelling medium that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Web Format
Google has developed a new web format called WebP to replace Jpeg. Why? Because they believe that it will greatly diminish storage space used for still images...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - September 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 9)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Expresses Concern About IP Piracy Enforcement Bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee recently introduced the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act to fight piracy of intellectual property. That is an...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Usable Security
One of the sessions I attended on Wednesday at GHC was a PhD forum. In this special type of session, three PhD students present their research in an hour, andLaurian...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Impact of the Grace Hopper Celebration
In addition to my own blog, I'm writing a few posts for the Communications of ACM blog about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.From my first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BMW Integrates IPads
Report in Engadget: BMW has shown an integration of IPads into the back seats of one of their cars. Interesting and amusing. I am assuming these would then be...
From Putting People First
Crowdsourcing: turning customers into creative directors
Is turning your customers into both creative director and chief of research the ideal low-cost model for business? The BBC reports on the role of crowdsourcing...
From Putting People First
Facebook exec: All media will be personalized in 3 to 5 years
Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in New York today that in the next three to five years, a website that isn’t tailored to a specific user’s...
From Putting People First
Manuel Castells: Mobile internet will outstrip
By 2014, the number of mobile internet users will surpass the number of users browsing the internet via a desktop computer, says a former adviser to Barack Obama’s...
From Schneier on Security
Wiretapping the Internet
On Monday, The New York Times reported that President Obama will seek sweeping laws enabling law enforcement to more easily eavesdrop on the internet. Technologies...
From Putting People First
What does the Internet of Things mean for UX people?
Last week, the Sixth European Information Architecture Summit took place in Paris, and all the presentations are already online. Here are a few that caught my attention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Innovation Center in Asia
Procter & Gamble continues to open new innovation centers. Increasingly focused to region and goal. Just begun in Singapore " ... the LWC-S is an independent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Jobs
In Small Business Labs: Future jobs that are available today. A look at job, primarily technically related, that are exploding today.
From The Eponymous Pickle