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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
Surveying the use of mobile phones in education worldwide
Michael Trucano explains on the World Bank’s EduTech blog why the World Bank will be kicking off a study next month looking at “The Use of Mobile Phones in Education...
From Putting People First
BBC Digital Revolution blog
The new BBC Digital Revolution blog explores the way the web is changing our lives. Some recent posts: Tim Berners-Lee on the web and the developing world It’s...
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Predicting what mobile phones will do for us next
Cambridge Design Partnership and Instrata, a Cambridge-based user experience specialist, recently teamed up to approach mobile communications innovation from the...
From Putting People First
A manifesto for slow communication
The Wall Street Journal has published an excellent manifesto by John Freeman, the acting editor of Granta magazine, on the need for slow communication. “We will...
From Putting People First
Participle test driving a new youth services model
Participle, the UK social design consultancy, is doing on-the-ground testing of a new model for universal youth services. According to Sarah Schulman, it
From Putting People First
Service design
The UK service design consultancy live|work is working with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) to design better community security services...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cross-layer Reliability Visioning Progress
The Cross-layer Reliability Visioning Study Group met July 8-9, 2009 in Los Alamos, NM.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CTO Discussion on Cloud Computing
CACM Queue holds a very good CTO round table discussion. Plus lots of good links. While I believe I have a good understanding of what cloud computing means, no...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner's Hype Cycle Indicators
Mark Montgomery points me to this image of the Gartner Hype Cycle Chart. Just something I was looking for a while back. Thanks.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimism Bias
Dan Ariely on The Curious Paradox of Optimism Bias. Also in Business Week.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pushing 3-D TV
From Knowledge@Wharton. How do you push 3D TV? Use an upcoming 3D movie that the studio says will be a blockbuster. Still, the technical quality has to be there...
From CSDiary
A Transition
I’m writing today from Boston, having just wrapped up a week at the annual DARPA ISAT retreat at Woods Hole. It was really an exciting week, with lot of people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Now You See it
In the midst of reading Stephen Few's: Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis. So far very nice, reminds me of Tufte's work,his...
From CERIAS Blog
More customer disservice
I have a Facebook account. I use it as a means to communicate little status updates with many, many friends and acquaintances while keeping up to date (a little)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Web and Kyield
Long-time correspondent Mark Montgomery writes in SemanticWeb. Plus more about Kyield. ' ... Is your enterprise getting smarter? Shouldn
From Return 42;
The other side of the table: John Langford
Time for another issue of The other side of the table. This time taking place on the opposite chair: John Langford. John Langford is a senior researcher/doctorYahoo...
From Return 42;
On Source Code Annotations
"The best comments aid the understanding of a program by briefly pointing out salient details or by providing a larger-scale view of the proceedings." The...
From The Eponymous Pickle