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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
Big Green Boxes
An interesting idea via IFTF: Take unused warehouse space in a city and use it to implement aquaponics ... a combination of soil-less growing of plants, and using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enforcing Fun at Work
I always loved having fun at work. Yet in my years at the enterprise there were a couple of times where there was an attempt at attempting to enforce or systematize...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Berners-Lee and the Mobile Web
In Read Write Web: Comments by the Web Inventor Berners-Lee on concerns with important issues regarding the mobile Web. Some points I had not thought of. Inevitable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Not Finishing the Book
An interesting Volokh piece about the ethics of reviewing or criticizing books (or anything) without finishing the whole thing. Guilty at times of exactly that.
From The Noisy Channel
An Open Letter to the USPTO
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to release new guidance as to which patent...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Who I Want to Meet at Grace Hopper
A great way to gear up for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is to decide what your goals are for when you get there. This year, for the first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Data as an Asset
Thinking about managing data as an asset. It is surprising how often we do not think about this. Could be a key aspect of managing knowledge.
From Putting People First
Essential interaction design essays and articles
Dan Saffer of Kicker Studio has started a list of essays and articles that he feels are important touchstones and reference points for interaction designers. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Card Scanning
In the NYT, an overview of a number of business card scanning applications. I still hand business cards manually, it would be good to digitize these and add them...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A House that Knows Family Mood
Another example of sensing and automating common home processes such washing your hair. Or integrating sensory processes into the home itself. In the early 2000s...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: "Truck Carrying Squid Crashes In Broccoli Field"
You can't make up a headline like that.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hair Washing Robot
Panasonic announces a robot that washes your hair. Designed primarily for health institutional and caregiving scenarios.
From The Eponymous Pickle
ARF Neuromarketing Standards Study
This makes great sense, it is overdue that this is looked at closely to try to produce useful standards. Sands Research pointed this out to me. Eight firms to...
From Schneier on Security
Real-Time NSA Eavesdropping
In an article about Robert Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars, this is listed as one of the book's "disclosures": A new capability developed by the National Security...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The
Five years ago, the National Academies published a landmark study calling for U.S. investment in science, technology, and education, warning the nation could no...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talent Analytics
This piece relates to several posts I have done recently on retiree knowledge retention and linking specific corporate needs to expertise based on assignment approach...
From Schneier on Security
Analysis of Image File Metadata
As a photographer, I've wondered about this.
From Putting People First
Videos of Stanford
Below are the 2010 videos of the Human-Computer Interaction Seminar at Stanford University. Check also the full playlist. Redesigning the programming experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle