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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
Book: Digital Anthropology
Digital Anthropology Edited by Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller Berg Publishers, Oct 2012 328pp Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human...
From Putting People First
Anthropology of mid-sized startups
In their natural habitats, social species organize into characteristic groups. Gazelles form herds, wolves form packs, and ants form colonies. Humans, in the same...
From Putting People First
Leaving our mark: What will be left of our cities?
From our cities, to our farms, to our rubbish, humans have firmly stamped their mark across the planet. Humanity’s impact on the globe is so great and varied that...
From Putting People First
Human face of big data
This past week featured a worldwide experiment conducted via a mobile app: The Human Face of Big Data. On September 26, 2012, Against All Odds Productions launched...
From Putting People First
Bridging the gap between humans and computers
Heather Kelly reports on the CNN website on The Atlantic’s recent Big Science Summit in San Jose, California: We have voice-controlled assistants on our phones,...
From Putting People First
Philips Design: From data to meaning for people
On October 22nd, 2012, Philips Design organized a special seminar and workshop to explore how businesses can innovate by translating ‘Big Data’ into value for people...
From Putting People First
NEXT Service Design videos
NEXT Service Design is the European conference for designing digital services, which took place on 8 October in Berlin. It focuses on design methods including design...
From Putting People First
The Slow Revolution
The last ten years has seen a burgeoning of the Slow Movement in all aspects of life from management, travel and education to science and work. On 4 October, the...
From My Biased Coin
Posts from FOCS (Part 2)
Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler.[Editor: First-year grad student Mark Bun of Harvard contributes a summary...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
There's Nothing Like a Good Book!
I understand there are good reasons to push for more digital texts, and for the "fully immersive digital experience". But there is nothing like a good book, there...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Software
In CACM: On Mars,the use of autonomous software. " .... Among the most innovative applications NASA computer scientists have contributed to the mission is Autonomous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Presentation
Prep for a presentation led me to this recent Oracle presentation on advanced analytics and in-database techniques.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
More Interview With Kurt Gödel
Part II of the GLL exclusive src Kurt Gödel has assented to our publishing the second part of the interview we conducted with him a year ago. We had his assent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
View of the Future of Retail
Armen Najarian of IBM points me to video and presentations from the recent Akami Edge customer conference. General overview here. Mobile is by definition about...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Should you follow the experts?
It is silly to say that ignorance is strength. However, the contrary statement is not follow the experts. The right knowledge is strength. The tricky part is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats Next for Business Analytics
Information Management on what is next in Business Analytics. Fairly simplistic and obvious statements as I see it. Its should all be about linking it to the...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Rethinking Computers and Security
The New York Times article, “Killing the Computer to Save It,” takes a closer look at how Dr. Peter G. Neumann, a computer scientist who specializes in computer...
From Wild WebMink
Downloads Prove There Are Downloaders
And nothing more. My experience at Sun showed me that, when you use downloads as a metric for project success, you’re missing the point and perhaps trying to distract...
From Schneier on Security