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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 Female Perspective of Computer Science
CS Unplugged: Image Representation and Searching Algorithms
When I did some computer science outreach in the summer for the Girls @ Virtual Ventures camp, I promised them that if they came back for the weekend clubs in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Global Social Media Push
In AdAge: Behind Coca-Cola's Biggest Social-Media Push YetHow Expedition 206's Global Search for Happiness Came Together ... Coca-Cola is gearing up for its largest...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Videos
As I tweeted yesterday, the videos of talks from the 2009 FOCS conference are now online. Thanks to FOCS PC chair Daniel Spielman and Georgia Tech's ARC Centercollected...
From My Biased Coin
Job Advice?
Not for me, thank goodness. A very talented graduating senior (who may or may not be Harvard...) has obtained a number of job offers, and asked me if I had any...
From Putting People First
Report on Service Design Network conference 2009
Lucy Kimbell, who is a Clark Fellow in Design Leadership at Sa
From Putting People First
Book: Prototyping, a practitioner
Prototyping A Practitioner’s Guide to Prototyping By Todd Zaki Warfel Rosenfeld Media, November 2009 Available in paperback and digital package (1-933820-21-7),...
From Schneier on Security
Quantum Ghost Imaging
This is cool: Ghost imaging is a technique that allows a high-resolution camera to produce an image of an object that the camera itself cannot see. It uses two...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-18
Inventing a Better Patent System While these proposed reforms of the US system are to be welcomed, they fail to address - or even acknowledge -...
From The Noisy Channel
Exploring Explortatory Search
Google’s recently released Image Swirl is slick. But I’ve been struggling to figure out whether it’s useful or simply a showcase for cool technology.
From Apophenia
Call for Descriptions: Online Safety Programs
The Risky Behaviors and Online Safety track of the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone as Sensing Platform
The IPhone positioned as a version of the Tricorder, a universal information gathering device that can connect the right data to the right analytical methods that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Takes Some Searchers from Yahoo
Not unexpected. Like I have said I have found Bing to be a usefully different search method. No doubt that Google has huge inertia, but Bing has shown some useful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Visual Data Discovery
We did some very early work for executive suite discovery applications using SAS graph. More about what SAS has today in data discovery. Now this application reminded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Connects with Twitter
Linkedin has now connected with Twitter, apparently to pick up to some of that high volume of Twitter traffic. By giving Linkedin your Twitter ID you can have your...
From Apophenia
Web2.0 Expo Talk: Streams of Content, Limited Attention
I prepared a new talk today for Web2.0 Expo that I wanted to share with you: "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web 2.0 for E Commerce Success
In Ecommerce Times: Top Web 2.0 drivers for ecommerce success by retailers.
From Computational Complexity
A Prayer Book for the Internet Generation
As a young kid in the Reform Jewish community we used the Union Prayer Book, a traditional book with Hebrew on the right and English on the left with lots of instructions...
From Schneier on Security
A Useful Side-Effect of Misplaced Fear
A study in the British Journal of Criminology makes the point that drink-spiking date-raping is basically an urban legend: Abstract. There is a stark contrast...
From The Eponymous Pickle