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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
Sight Seeing in Atlanta
I arrived in Atlanta on Monday for this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The conference officially started on Tuesday night, so we had aAtlanta...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurofocus Announces own Standards
Nielsen associated Neuromarketing company Neurofocus sets up their own standards. They further offer to share these standards with companies. You can hardly set...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Augmented Reality
Just received from Metaio. This is interesting because it talks about both a definition of AR and its direction. This is clearly a marketing piece, but it does...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phones Nagging Patients
In CACM: a study about using a cell phone to improve pharma compliance. Not a new idea at all. The general idea was demonstrated in the contextual innovation centers...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Publications
There is an interesting list of NSA publications in this document, pages 30
From Wild WebMink
? Unplanned Consequences
The “legal blackmail” business: inside a P2P settlement factory Very interesting article. The practice of “legal blackmail” extends further than this, of course...
From Computational Complexity
NRC Rankings
The NRC "rankings" of Graduate programs was released yesterday. I put up a Google spreadsheet of the CS rankings. Phds.org will also generate rankings using various...
From Putting People First
Creating a patient-centered future for health care
Minneapolis firm Worrell looked at the future of health care through the patient’s perspective. Fast Company’s Co.Design site reports. “When it comes to designing...
From Putting People First
Forrester Research: Many social networkers happy just to lurk
Online social networks are growing, but the percentage of users uploading content to sites like YouTube and Facebook has “plateaued” worldwide, according to a report...
From Putting People First
PhD: Mobile phone use by young adults in India: a case study
“Mobile phone use by young adults in India: a case study”, the PhD thesis of Priyanka Matanhelia at the University of Maryland, is available online. Abstract This...
From Putting People First
UK campaign for inquiry into
The potential transformation of our brains caused by intensive use of computers and the internet is a threat to our quality of life on the same scale as risks to...
From Putting People First
US market research: Few Americans are consuming digital media
Connected devices are still having trouble finding a mass audience, a new report from market-research firm The NPD Group has found. But that is likely to change...
From Putting People First
In study, children cite appeal of digital reading
Many children want to read books on digital devices, while parents worry that technology will distract young bookworms, according to a survey by the publisher Scholastic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Questions in Neuroscience Symposium
Ongoing ... note also that founder Paul G Allen is now on Twitter ... ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE2010 Annual Symposium: Open Questions in NeuroscienceSeptember...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mission Control for Social Media and Retail
In AdAge: Gatorade has established an interesting 'mission control' room for tracking how their message is working. " ... In a room crammed with flat-screen monitors...
From Schneier on Security
Stealing Money from a Safe with a Vacuum
Clever: The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the "pneumatic tube" that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Case Studies
Just brought to my attention for a study: A set of case studies from the eye-tracking vendor Tobii that covers a number of capabilities and study contexts. Previous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple TV
Apple TV is to arrive by this Friday. Sounds like an interesting change is underway. " ... Apple's focus is on selling you 99
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Facebook Sells You
A very instructive piece in the current Bloomberg Businessweek on How Facebook Sells You.
From The Eponymous Pickle