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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
Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s innovation system
Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with Indian policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report by NESTA, the UK innovation agency, explores...
From Putting People First
Co-design in innovation
In a short post on the Huffington Post blog, author Soren Petersen describes how co-design – when firms and non-design users jointly design business and product...
From Putting People First
Book: This is Service Design Thinking
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases Edited by Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneider BIS Publishers, 2011 376 pages (Amazon link) This is Service...
From Putting People First
Ethical decision-making apps damage our ability to make moral choices
A recent crush of smartphone and tablet apps claim to make hard decisions easier, and the range of ethical dilemmas they can weigh in on will only increase. At...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Among Presidential Early-Career Awardees
This afternoon, the White House named 96 researchers — including a 2009 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) – as recipients of the 2012 Presidential Early Career...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 July 2012
I had a great week and a great weekend. Busy weekend with family which is the best way to spend the weekend. I’m late with today’s posts though but hopefully you...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is C/C++ worth it?
We routinely attribute the long battery life and power of our tablets and tiny laptops to better hardware. However, in many cases, this better hardware runs software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LandSat at 40
LandSat imagery was the first example we saw of the value of images from space for business. We examined them for use in forest management for the pulp industry...
From Computational Complexity
CCC12- post 4 of 4- Misc Info.
CCC 12 post 4 of 4. The business meeting and other observations. Programming committee info: There were 119 submissions of which 18 were junk (more on that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holistic Virtualization
Computerworld special edition on holistic virtualization. Increasingly important for the integration of analytics. Exploring.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Noise and Blank Display Ads
Former colleague Ted McConnell, exec VP at the Advertising Research Foundation, writes about the conundrum of blank display ads getting an impressive number of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biases are Running Rampant
We discovered in the very early days of the Web that the increasing access to more information made it very easy to feed your own biases. Ordinary employeesSteve...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 23
July 24 Briefing: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is holding a briefing on assistive voting technology for veterans. 9:30 a.m., 188 Russell...
From Schneier on Security
How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism
An antidote to the American cycle of threat, fear, and overspending in response to terrorism is this, about Norway on the first anniversary of its terrorist massacre...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Introducing the CCC to Our New Readers
For those of you who have been regulars of the CCC Blog since the early days (back in late 2008), thanks for continuing to click on to us. For the rest of you —...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Manufacturing is in Amerca
Article quoted in length by MJ Perry. Saying that advances in robotics and artificial intelligence along with remote manufacture through 3D printing will drive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Have Replaced ...
In Technology Review: What smartphones have replaced. I don't like lists for their own sake but I did notice the mention of a shopping list, which we studied...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen and Watermarks
Engadget reports on a new technology to gather information about local viewing activity via set-top boxes. More information and press release at the link. Particularly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
OODA Loop
Nice piece on the history and implementation of John Boyd's OODA Loop.... The OODA Loop describes how to make decisions and act on them using a four-stage model...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog