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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
New York Times Magazine Features Technology in Education
Today’s New York Times Sunday magazine is devoted to
From The Noisy Channel
Search at the Speed of Thought
A guiding principle in information technology has been to enable people to perform tasks at the “speed of thought”. The goal is not just to make people more efficient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GIS and Agent Based Modeling
An article from a while back that addresses how virtual worlds and agent based modeling can be linked together for research applications. Via Dave Cohen. This blog...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grasp Lab at Penn
I don't remember Penn being particularly well known for robotics work. Yet their Grasp lab (general robotics, automation, sensing and perception) around since 1979...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carrefour Reinventing the Hypermarket
An interesting piece that seems to indicate that Carrefour is taking a more revolutionary that evolutionary approach in design. Nice to see this direction. Considerable...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
I Know What You Did Last Summer
If you are like most of the teachers I know (and how I used to be) then you probably spent your summer doing any combination of the following: vacationing, resting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification!
It has been called 'serious games', 'total engagement', and collaborative competition. Now Russell Brumfield, who we worked with on a scent branding project, has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Category Management Paradigm
Interbrand top 100 brand brand report and a new approach to category management. " .... Now, in 2010, we are seeing the starts and stops of a recovery coupled...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Razors and Razor Blade Strategy
An interesting piece in Techdirt, commenting on an original paper in the Social Science Research Network, about the classic business strategy of razors and razor...
From CERIAS Blog
Can Your IPv4 Firewall Be Bypassed by IPv6 Traffic?
Do you have a firewall? Maybe it's not as useful as you think it is. I was surprised to discover that IPv6 was enabled on several hosts with default firewallLynis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metadata Management
From TDWI: Cost Justification for Metadata Management. " ... Pinning a dollar value or other metric to metadata
From Putting People First
Cutting edge sharing and bartering in Brooklyn
From farming to art, practices like sharing and bartering are being revived and updated for the Twitter age. The New York Times reports from Brooklyn. “Concepts...
From Schneier on Security
Questioning Terrorism Policy
Worth reading: ...what if we chose to accept the fact that every few years, despite all reasonable precautions, some hundreds or thousands of us may die in the...
From Putting People First
Values in technology design and use: ethnography
A couple of months ago former Nokia ethnographer Tricia Wang gave a talk at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, CA, and she just posted the slideshow and the...
From Putting People First
All together now, to each his own sync
New York Times cultural commentator Anand Giridharadas reflects on the fact that as the very idea of mass culture erodes, many people are synced with themselves...
From Putting People First
Intel: it
The Intel announcements this week, particularly those by CTO Justin Rattner, are quite visionary. But also anthropologist Genevieve Bell’s approach is making waves...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2010
I really like this award program so I am happy to promote it on my blog. The following is from the official announcement. I strongly encourage you to share this...
From The Eponymous Pickle