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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
Grasp Robotics Laboratory at Penn
Brought to my attention, new things ongoing at the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Robot swarms that fly and cooperate. See an exciting video on their...
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Google Tracking Your Location
Google has a lot of power, and continues to cleverly leverage it, mixing search behavior, location and purchasing choices:" ... Google is beta-testing a program...
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Screenwriting and Storytelling
Have examined the approaches of screenwriting for storytelling. Not precisely on point, but worth looking at, see Blake Snyer's site. And his book: Save...
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Blockbuster Closes, Reopens for Liquidation
This is quite a change, having lived through the era of readily available physical video media stores. Now Blockbuster video, once ubquitous, is closing its remaining...![[Book] Connect: Design for an Empathic Society](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
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[Book] Connect: Design for an Empathic Society
Connect: Design for an Empathic Society by Sabine Wildevuur, Dick van Dijk, Thomas Hammer-Jakobson, Mie Bjerre, Anne Äyväri, and Jesper Lund BIS Publishers, 2014...
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Ergonomics in the digital age
In this age of ubiquitous computing, what exactly are we doing to our bodies, asks Avinash Rajagopal in a highly recommended piece in Metropolis Magazine: “Today...
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Street Light System with Audio and Video Recording
In is natural to include security and pattern recording systems in lighting. We tested the idea for retail. Here a new integration: " ... Las Vegas Installs “Intellistreets...
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Agile Mindsets
Agile is necessary. It should be a midset. But what does it really mean? Pearl Zhu: From the Future of CIO: " ... Agility is the ability to adapt to the changes...
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Panoramio Redesign
The Google Operating System reports that the image locating service Panoramio has been redesigned to make it look like a Google Maps extension. It was acquired...
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Unilever's CEO Talks the Future
Why Unilever's CEO takes the long-term approachUnilever CEO Paul Polman said his job is "to make others successful," which he achieves by taking a long-term approach...
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All technology is assistive technology
All technology is assistive technology, argues Sara Hendren in a long and very insightful article. “Honestly – what technology are you using that’s not assistive...
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How a deeper customer understanding can energize innovation
In today’s crowded and competitive energy markets, many product manufacturers fall short in their marketing, writes Andy Beck, Executive Vice President of Makovsky...
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Ubiquitous across globe, cellphones have become tool for doing good
With 96 percent of the world connected, organizations are using mobile phones to deliver, via texts, water, energy, financial services, health care, even education...
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How do you build an electricity bill for the 21st century?
The more confusing the bill, the more likely it is to be disputed, the less likely it is to be paid. So, from not only an image perspective, but a practical, financial...
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The rise of the mobile-born
The mobile-born generation will drive a radical rethinking of office productivity, writes Paul Holland, a general partner at Foundation Capital, “Fast-forward a...
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High Fidelity Fast Smart Scanning
In Engadget: We have many new opportunities for scanning these days. And more our smart phones have become scanners. But the nature of the context can makeBlinkscan...
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Fading Interest in the Humanities
In the NYT: Creating a worry in colleges. I further observe that Its harder to justify the costs, and as most everything has an important part of underlying technology...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Tree Yarn-Bombed
This tree in San Mateo, CA, has been turned into a giant blue squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Why Arts and Social Science Needs Code: Testimonials
Part 2 of my "Why are we learning this?" guide for arts and social science students is a set of testimonials from people in the field that learned to code. I'd...
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