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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 Putting People First
Experientia to redesign United Nations website
Experientia, the international experience design consultancy based in Turin, Italy, will be designing the new website of the training arm of the United Nations’...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorism Entrapment
Back in 2007, I wrote an essay, "Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot," where I said: The JFK Airport plotters seem to have been egged on by an informant...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-06
The VC-free startup The trend for VC-free startups is strong, and Dale's article makes for interesting reading. ForgeRock is another example of a VC-free startup...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting People First
A good blog on Futures and Design: Daily Insights on User Experience Design and People Centered Innovation. From Experientia, a global experience design consultancy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 Mobile Comm Resource
I have been recommending the GS1 Mobile Comm space and newsletter as an excellent source of information about mobile retail development for some time. We have been...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 September 2010
Happy Labor Day! Well here in the US anyway. Technically a public/work holiday and I do plan to spend most of it relaxing. Unless my wife has other plans that is...
From Putting People First
Juicy stories and more
Four new articles in today’s edition of UXmatters: Juicy stories sell ideas By Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks Storytelling fits into the design process in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Mobile Landscape
Dave Knox shares a presentation via Jim Cuene of General Mills on the changing mobile landscape. Well done. See also: Cuene's blog.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dark Silicon and Smartphone Batteries
I have had discussions with several friends lately about the increasing complexity of smartphones and the contribution of that to short battery life. So I bitThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ingenuity Advisors
A local company of interest that I recently talked to: Ingenuity Advisors. " ... We offer a strategy book honed by decades of experience battling in a myriad of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stephen Few on Bullet Graphs
Stephen Few at the recent Tableau users conference talks about bullet graphs. I have been a user of Tableau systems for years, in and outside of the enterprise....
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-09-05
Ultra All Stars: The 2010 Sampler for Amazon This free sampler album (only downloadable by people with US Amazon.Com accounts) has some great electronic/dance tracks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Untangling and Riding Social Web Structure
A good Economist article on the usefulness of social webs as a source of data about social connection structure. Interesting mentions of SAS social network analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Great Mancession
Economist Mark J Perry makes the case that there is a great mancession going on. The WSJ interactive graphs show it. Yet we dare not mention it out loud.
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Without E-Mail
One man's vision, a world without e-mail. Replacing 90% of your email with social software. Would that work for the typical person online?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Household Robotics in Japan
An area we looked at closely. Aiming to include in home-of-the-future applications. An aging population may need many help-mate robots in the future. Japan is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Knowledge from Incident Reports
Creating knowledge from events. It is like fitting a line through a number of points. Very valuable, but needs to be carefully done. We experimented with after-action...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What Does a Computer Scientist Look Like?
Career and Technical Education exposed me to the field of computing. I joined two organizations in high school that changed my life. My participation in FBLA...
From The Eponymous Pickle