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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
Two Experientia presentations in Busan, South Korea
Last week, Experientia was in Busan, South Korea, at the invitation of the Busan Design Center. As part of its first Design Week, the Center organised two international...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CNN Labs: Sensors in Healthcare
CNN’s John Sutton has written a really great article describing sensor networks — and how they’re radically altering
From The Eponymous Pickle
Discovering the Benefits of the Semantic Enterprise
Mark Montgomery of Kyield video: " ... on the benefits and byproducts of employing our semantic enterprise system. The style is an informal lecture lasting about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drink Recommending Vending Machines
Another idea about machines merchandising to people base on sensors. I have seen a number of examples of this, but none that were successful. If they are too...
From Putting People First
How college students evaluate and use information in the digital age
Project Information Literacy (PIL) is ongoing research project, based in the University of Washington’s Information School, that collects data from early adults...
From Putting People First
Harvard Forum essays on ICT4D
ITID (Information Technologies & International Development) has come out with a special issue devoted to papers emerging from the second Harvard Forum on ICTs,...
From Putting People First
Peter Merholz on advertising and marketing agencies delivering UX design
Peter Merholz, president of Adaptive Path, has written a long and eloquent rant against advertising and marketing agencies proclaiming to do user experience design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
We Can Store it, but can we Effectively Think about it?
Cheap storage now allows us to store all that occurs in the Web. I have worked on projects that include using things like the Internet Archive to understand the...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Cyberwar
Last week, I gave a talk on cyberwar and cyberconflict at the Institute for International and European Affairs in Dublin. Here's the video. It was only the second...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The future of social networking
To Facebook message or to e-mail? Facebook message. At least that was the conclusion of a
From The Eponymous Pickle
GMA Rolls out New Site and Blog
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) now has a new site and blog. My enterprise was a member and attended a number of their webinars, seminars and conferences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web 2.0 for Supplier Collaboration at Procter
Via Consumer Goods Technology .... Evidence of some excellent developments.Leveraging Web 2.0 Technologies for Improved Enterprise & Supplier CollaborationNovember...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash
Things are happening so fast that I don't know if I should bother. But here are some links and observations. The head of the Allied Pilots Association is telling...
From Wild WebMink
Private Agreements Harm Communities
I pointed yesterday to an interesting comment about contributor agreements attached to a report about Michael Meeks speech a LPC. Another comment to the same article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dual Business Intelligence Architectures
Thinking about differing architectures for casual versus power users of business intelligence. Having worked with executive information systems that needed to...
From Wild WebMink
? Essays Now Creative Commons
I had a request on Identica to make one of my essays available under a Creative Commons licence so it could be translated. I thought that was such a good idea I’ve...
From Computer Science Teachers Association