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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
John Thackara on clean growth
Design Innovation Scotland has published a white paper by John Thackara, entitled Clean Growth: From Mindless Development to Design Mindfulness. It’s the first...
From Putting People First
Talking mobile banking in Kenya
Erik Hersman reports on his blog White African from the e Fletcher mBanking conference in Nairobi. Talking Mobile Banking in Kenya Notes from the panel “Perspectives...
From Putting People First
Wired economics
Nokia’s Ideas Project published a feature story on why technology may be making money superfluous. “We’re entering a time in which products are expected to give...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-25
Ryanair: print your tickets at home or not, you pay Just in case you've not been paying attention: don't travel with RyanAir,Travel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stanford Metaverse Conference
I have been away from the virtual worlds topic for a while now, but still think it has useful applications in the enterprise. See the upcoming meeting below:'Main...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Holland on Complex Adaptive Systems
Talk at Case Western by John Holland on Complex Adaptive Systems / Agent Models from this past October. Good overview for the general modeling and simulation practitioner...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-24
Malay court hearing 'Allah' case Unexpected trademark dispute. Is the noun "Allah" a trademark of Islam or a generic usable byreligion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Permanence of the Record
When I give talks on the Web I often include the caution that you should write knowing that what you say there is permanent and often easily findable. So thinkas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Classroom
How can social media be used to teach and in general help people within organizations communicate their knowledge? I was part of a recent test at Georgia TechSocial...
From The Noisy Channel
News, Search Experience, and Value
I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m...
From The Noisy Channel
News, Search Experience, and Value
I’ve been known to spar with Jeff Jarvis about Google’s role in the present and future of journalism, but I readily admit I’m something of an amateur. Thus I’m...
From The Noisy Channel
NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized...
From The Noisy Channel
NSF Report on Information Seeking Support Systems
Long-time readers may recall that I participated last year in an NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop at the University of North Carolina, organized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NEC Pennny Tags
I have been long involved with the exploration of RFID tags in retail. Now NEC is indicating that they have developed the long desired passive RFID tags that could...
From The Noisy Channel
Book. Is. Done.
I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and...
From The Noisy Channel
Book. Is. Done.
I couldn’t think of a better way to start a holiday weekend than by uploading the revised chapters of my faceted search book to the publisher. It was the first–and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A researcher
I love gardening. I get good results too. However, my wife is very critical of my techniques.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Wisconsin Leadership Cohort Update
Hello from Wisconsin, land of Harleys, cheese, breweries and great ethnic festivals! As part of our work on the CSTA Leadership Cohort, Sarah Huibregtse and I...
From The Eponymous Pickle