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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
UCI to lead national social computing research center, led by Paul Dourish
UC Irvine will anchor a new $12.5 million, Intel-funded research center that applies social science and humanities to the design and analysis of digital information...
From Schneier on Security
E-Mail Accounts More Valuable than Bank Accounts
This informal survey produced the following result: "45% of the users found their email accounts more valuable than their bank accounts." The author believes this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with Target CMO
In Forbes: What is in Store for the Brand. Overview mention of a number of issues the big retailer is dealing with in marketing and merchandising, for example...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Which is fastest: read, fread, ifstream or mmap?
If you program in C/C++, you have many options to read files: The standard C library offers a low-level read function. It is as simple as it gets. The standard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Media Influence on Purchasing Decisions
A research brief on media influence. " ... According to The Media Comparisons Study, from TVB with Knowledge Networks, consumers credit TV ads as most influential...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Food Supply Chain Improvement and Protection
I just got a chance to interview N2N Global. A business intelligence and analytics provider for food supply chains. Aimed at Food Safety, Quality Assurance and...
From Putting People First
Book: Design and Anthropology
Design and Anthropology Edited by Wendy Gunn, University of Southern Denmark and Jared Donovan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Ashgate, 2012 Hardcover...
From Putting People First
Secrets about human behavior as the basis of future massive enterprises
Nir Eyal, lecturer in marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, believes secrets about human behavior, which provide insights into the way people act...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First Person: Pattie Maes on the Future of HCI
On the heels of Francis Collins’s Scientific American
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing Reading
Citia, An App that aims to reinvent reading. An intriguing notion I am exploring. " ... Some of the world
From Putting People First
Dan Ariely on why we lie, cheat, go to prison and eat cake
Dan Ariely is a professor of behavioral economics and psychology at Duke University and the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions...
From Schneier on Security
Resilience
There was a conference on resilience (highlights here, and complete videos here) earlier this year. Here's an interview with professor Sander van der Leeuw on...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 25
June 27 Hearing: The Communications and Technology Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on changes in video technology 10...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra
Real math! Romance! Karate! That's what the back of this unusual math book promises to its readers. Odd as it may seem to teach math with a comic book, The Manga...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What if There Were No More Disasters?
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Center for Robot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companies that Reinvented Themselves
A slide show from Baseline. It is instructive to look at these examples, some very well known. I think many companies need to look at the possibility of reinventing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google as a 2 Billion $ Advertiser
In Adage: The forward motion continues. Really the first time that analytics methods have been applied to the complete process of delivering ads. Not surprising...
From Schneier on Security
Op-ed Explaining why Terrorism Doesn't Work
Good essay by Max Abrams. I've written about his research before.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP