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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
P&G Thanks Moms
Long time colleague Stan Joosten writes:Digital Friends,With 100 days to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games we have launched our global P&G Thank...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Office Tablets
Tablets are more mobile than a laptop. Good for applications like healthcare. But in general business applications? I have had an iPad for about a year now.ReadWriteWeb...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Honors Innovators for Research, Education Advances
Congratulations to Luis von Ahn, Hanan Samet, Hal Abelson, and Stephanie Forrest, who today were
From The Eponymous Pickle
Avon Social Networks
An article in Knowledge@Wharton about strategic changes at Avon. The point that they were an early innovator in what has come to be known as 'social networking'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SNCR Sponsors Social Media Summit
I see that SNCR, the Society for new Consumer Research is co sponsoring an upcoming social media summit: " ... The Corporate Social Media Summit is back for its...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF
The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the
From Computational Complexity
I left Push Down Automata out of my class and learned some things!
This semester in the Ugrad Course titled Elementary Theory of Computation (Syllabus: Reg Languages, CFLs, Computability Theory, P and NP) I decided to NOT teach...
From Schneier on Security
Biometric Passports Make it Harder for Undercover CIA Officers
Last year, I wrote about how social media sites are making it harder than ever for undercover police officers. This story talks about how biometric passports are...
From My Biased Coin
Sandel on Colbert
Taking a class from Michael Sandel was one of the highlights of my college experience. (You can sit on the lectures online, here.) Here's his latest appearance...
From Putting People First
Design Council revealed new designs to help people live well with dementia
The UK Design Council, in partnership with the UK Department of Health, ran a national competition to find teams of designers and experts who could develop new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Pharmacist Relationships with Apps
Walgreens builds Apps To help you find a pharmacist. I have used this App for prescriptions, but not for building pharmacist relationships.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Pioneers Content Management
In Forbes: A historical piece about how P&G pioneered content management. Essentially the use of stories. " ... The company decided to innovate by telling these...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Will New Online Courses Change CS Education?
Recently I have heard about and checked out some of the online course offerings by Stanford and MIT. I knew about MIT open courseware and the wealth of knowledge...
From My Biased Coin
A Collaborative Atmosphere
I was excited to hear that "my student"* Justin Thaler, working with Salil Vadhan and his student Jon Ullman, had a paper accepted to ICALP (Faster Algorithms for...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Punk money: how you can print your own currency
We all want and need money. However, for many services, paying actual dollars is inefficient. The transaction costs are too high. So we need a system whereas perfect...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Memory Formation
In ReadwriteWeb: It has been known for a long time that our memories are a malleable thing. But have we now been introduced to something very different than just...
From Putting People First
The Kickstarter revolution
The first campaign to break the 1-million-dollar barrier in this revolutionary crowd-funding platform was an industrial design project. Could Kickstarter transform...
From Putting People First
The process of co-creation with users
In an article for UX Magazine, Catalina Naranjo-Bock provides a solid general description of co-designing processes: “The practice of co-design allows users to...
From The Noisy Channel
Science as a Strategy
Last night, I had the pleasure to deliver the keynote address as the CIO Summit US. It was an honor to address an assembly of CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives...