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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 Computational Complexity
Imagining Imaginary Probabilities
In the year 4000BC my great-great-...-great grandmother tried to solve (in today's terms) the equation x2 + 2x + 2 = 0 She discovered that if it had a solution...
From Schneier on Security
Diamond Swallowing as a Ruse
It's a known theft tactic to swallow what you're stealing. It works for food at the supermarket, and it also can work for diamonds. Here's a twist on that tactic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
From GPS and Virtual Globes to Spatial Computing-2020
The following is a special contribution to this blog from the organizing committee of the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) visioning workshop on spatial computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Users of Big Data
On the Human component of Big Data in HBR. This is not discussed as much as it should be. How do people interact with the data and the analytics that come from...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 September 2012
From my point of view the first week of this blog at this location has good well. I realize that I’ve posted a number of longish posts about some of my own thoughts...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Future is Now
Here's a cool idea for a lesson to get students thinking about the impact of technology on their lives and on their futures. Checkout the 75 references on this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recommender Systems
ACM sponsored Webinar on Recommender systems, the power of personalization.Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM EDT/11:00 AM CDT/9:00 AM PDT/4:00 PM UTC Personalization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Campbell Soup Innovation Center
Always interested in the concept of contextually rich innovation centers. Here is a new one by Campbell Soup / Pepperidge Farm. Looking for more detailed descriptions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of the Phone
In the Atlantic. What is the future of the smart phone? Obvious things like the integration of wallet functions. But beyond that. More intelligence and integration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers Take to Shopper Marketing
In Supermarket News. The retailer continues to take a stronger handle to the integration of shopper behavior and purchase. The data and the analytics continue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Languages of Innovation
Thoughts on a language of innovation. All innovation exists in a context. In our innovation centers we started to seek a means to simulate innovation in both...
From My Biased Coin
Student Bragging....
Always worth bragging about my students...Justin Thaler's paper "Cache-Oblivious Dictionaries and Multimaps with Negligible Failure Probability" (with me, Michael...
From The Noisy Channel
LinkedIn Presentations at RecSys 2012
LinkedIn showed up in force at the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012)! Here are the slides from all of our presentations. Daniel...
From Putting People First
Book: Economy of Experiences
Today Albert Boswijk, founder and CEO of the European Centre for the Experience Economy, contacted us about his new book “Economy of Experiences”. Boswijk co-founded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers Don't Recognize the Solution
As early as 2000 we actively researched the ability of RFID technologies to solve key retail cost and operational issues. We expected the solutions to be in place...
From Putting People First
UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience
UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience Sari Kujala (a), Virpi Roto (b), Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila (a), Evangelos Karapanos (c), Arto Sinnel...
From Putting People First
Luxury brands need luxury retail experiences, even in the online space
Jonathan Ross, business development director at FACT-Finder, discusses the steps luxury brands can take to ensure a more rewarding online retail experience for...
From Putting People First
PARC ethnographer on the power of observation
In an article for GigaOM, Ellen Isaacs (personal site), a user experience designer and ethnographer for PARC, explains the benefits of using ethnography to develop...
From Putting People First
Should we focus on user experience?
This article by my compatriot Koen AT Claes claims that our current notion of UX design mistakenly focuses on experience, and that we should go one step further...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP