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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 Noisy Channel
Attending Endeca Discover
Apologies for the unusual hiatus in posting–I’ve been attending Endeca Discover (an annual user conference) and haven’t managed to allocate time for blogging. I’ll...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why senior researchers and managers should analyze data themselves
Scientists, businessman and even spies are supposed to analyze data collaboratively. Are they? If you are a scientist, you are familiar with the following type...
From Putting People First
Efficiency or ambient intimacy?
The latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine is all about a new era of human interaction that is marked by perpetual conversations and perpetual info drip-feed...
From Putting People First
Physically digital
Mac Funamizu explores on Johnny Holland what digital devices with physically changing displays might look like and how their interface language might be conceived...
From Putting People First
How designers can influence behavior
Robert Fabricant wrote about the role of the designer in behavioural change and describes three new design strategies: persuasion design, catalyst design and performance...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Leadership Cohort Update from Washington (State)
As a member of the CSTA Leadership cohort, I have had an exciting year in Washington. A group of very dedicated educators and business members have been working...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Relations 2.0 Examined
Good detailed article in PR 2.0 by Brian Solis: The State of PR, Marketing, and Communications: You are the Future. ' ... Contrary to popular belief, Social Media...
From Apophenia
Gender Gap in Perception of Computer Science
"New Image for Computing" recently released a report in their first wave to understand the image of computing among youth. Funded by WGBH and ACM, this report examines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart on Marketing
In AdAge: Wal-Mart on their increasingly sophisticated methods of marketing and associated research. Also an increasingly strong approach to merchandising in their...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 8
June 10 Hearing: The Research and Science Education subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on research and development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Evolution of Private Label
Q&A: Nielsen Industry Insight Director Details Evolution of Private Label, National Brands ' ... Nielsen Co. director of industry insights Tom Pirovano noted that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demise of the University
Don Tapscott in the Edge on the demise of the University. Universities like MIT are posting their coursework online. Libraries are online. Wikis allow knowledge...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-07
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive Currently reading the copy of The Geek Atlas that O'Reilly kindly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mirror Neurons and the Social Web
Matt Bamford-Bowes muses about Mirror Neurons and the Social Web. ' I think social web activity is one which is a reflection of Mirror Neurons at work ... ' ....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - May 2008 (Vol. 52, No. 5)
Here are some items in the May issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. Remember, much of the material in CACM is considered premium content...
From The Noisy Channel
Those Who Give Twitter *Get* Twitter
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb wrote a post arguing that the people working at Twitter aren’t using the service the way its power users do, and that this...
From Putting People First
The limits of user-generated contents, as demonstrated by a North-Korean case
About four weeks ago, I wrote a post denouncing Current TV for their hypocrisy: encouraging user-generated content when it is not threatening, but actively censoring...
From Wild WebMink