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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 …
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2014 is the Year of Laughing like Kafka
This year, I'm trying this trend where I have a theme instead of a resolution. And this isn't just because I broke all of my concrete resolutions by April of last...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Predictions For The New Year
For 2014, that is Cropped from Guardian article. Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all times—he wrote or edited over 500 books. In his Foundation...
From Wild WebMink
2013 in review
WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people...![[Book] Experience Design](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
[Book] Experience Design
Experience Design: A Framework for Integrating Brand, Experience, and Value Patrick Newbery, Kevin Farnham 240 pages October 2013 Wiley [Amazon link] Description...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Happy New Year–Now What?
January First always seems to be a good time to start thinking about the future. I don’t generally make New Year’s Resolutions but this seems like the time when...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contacting Me
There have been a big increase in comments sent to this blog lately. I approve all comments, usually within 24 hours. Comments MUST add to the topic, or will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Gimbal Developer Network
Includes technical specifications and explanatory video:Context Aware (Gimbal)The Gimbal™ context aware and proximity platform utilizes geofencing, micro-location...
From Putting People First
Saving the lost art of conversation in the age of the smartphone
Megan Garber of The Atlantic interviews (alternate link) Sherry Turkla, a psychologist and a professor at MIT whose primary academic interest—the relationship between...
From Putting People First
Solving problems for real world, using design
Formally the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, the D.school has made a global impact by encouraging students to find out what is most useful...
From Putting People First
The anthropology of Big Data
The anthropology of an equation. Sieves, spam filters, agentive algorithms, and ontologies of transformation Paul Kockelman This article undertakes the anthropology...
From Putting People First
The epistemology of Big Data
In addressing the insecurities of postmodern thought, Big Data falls prey to some of the same issues of interpretation, writes Michael Pepi in The New Enquirer....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Road to Xavier Gamification for Student Engagement
Gamifying student experience. Local Xavier University is using gaming dynamics to engage both Candidate students and Freshmen to the experience of the University...
From Putting People First
How do e-books change the reading experience?
Mohsin Hamid and Anna Holmes discuss in the New York Times Book Review how technology affects our reading habits. Mohsin Hamid argues that in a world of intrusive...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Where will the internet go in 2014?
On December 30, 2013, John Markoff wrote an article in The New York Times, titled Viewing Where the Internet Goes. He takes a brief look back at what happened...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Criticisms of Big Data
Some good cautions and criticisms of the big data world. Instructive piece that is worth a read. " .... in the race to unlock this promise, many enterprises...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jobs in an Always-on World
In Adage: Time to Reinvent Job Structures to Survive an Always-On WorldMarketing Is About Making Your Brand as Relevant as Possible, and Now You Need to Do It in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Co-Acceleration
More on D-wave quantum computing, which we have followed for some years. There remain very difficult analytical problems that we need computer speed to solve routinely...
From Schneier on Security
More about the NSA's Tailored Access Operations Unit
Der Spiegel has a good article on the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit: basically, its hackers. The article also has more details on how QUANTUM -- particularly...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
A Look Back on 2013’s Posts
Time for an end of the year look back on the posts from 2013. I was trying to decide if I should just report on the most read posts or do the work to list my favorite...
From The Eponymous Pickle