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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 …
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Procter and Social Media
A good case study about P&G using Facebook to market Crest Whitestrips. '... the contest on Facebook asks participants to submit stories about connections they...
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Irony Universal in Communication
A piece in Language Log talks about the universality of irony in communication. Also links to a number of other discussions previously held on the topic. One way...
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What is Social Search? Zakta Answers
Recently I took a first look at Zakta, a novel form of search engine that includes the ability to work socially with your searches, edit them, manipulate and use...
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Shneiderman on Future of Information Discovery
Here are Ben Shneiderman's slides from his keynote at the 2009 HCIR conference, posted by Daniel Tunkelang, worth a look.-
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Compete
A colleague pointed me to compete.com from TNS, which acquired them last year. With a trial version of the package you can compare traffic at major web sites. Also...
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Synchronized Blinking with Video
In Lucid Thoughts Steve Genco looks at the process of blinking based on some recent research which ' ... presents some really intriguing findings about when and...
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Social Search from Google
I joined the Google Social Search experiment. When you join it, any time you do a search in Google it adds information and results from your social network. It...
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Flocking Methods for Clustering
For a proposed project I am examining flocking methods to build spatial clusters. Flocking/Herding is the regularly observable activity of animals like birds gathering...
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Squeezing Knowledge from a Pixel
Alex Williams of RedWriteWeb talks to IBM about ' ... developing analytics platforms to help companies better understand how multiple pieces of information fit....
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Human-Computer Interaction
A good overview of the recent Human-Computer Information Retrieval HCIR workshop this past week. This is such an important topics and it is good to see increasing...
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Add this to Your RSS Feed
If you like what you read here take the time to add this blog to your RSS feed. Don't use RSS? Its a great way to make your Web reading more efficient. More about...
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Len Kleinrock and the Internet
Len Kleinrock on the 40th annoversary of the Internet in IEEE Computer: A Revolution Forty Years in the Making. -
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Flare Data Visualization for the Web
Of interest, the Flare library, from the UC Berkeley Visualization Lab. Contains a number of visualization capabilities, an example is the Job Voyager, demonstration...
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Neuroscience and Workplace Systems
An interesting example of what goes on in workplace contexts and how people interact with artificial systems like computers and avatars. What would this imply...
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Unilever Consumer Contact Center
In Consumergoods Magazine: ' Unilever Unveils Online Self-Service Platform Unilever goes live with the Astute Solutions' RealDialog Self-Service solution on its...
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Marketing Neuromarketing
Influencing the Decisionmaker with Neuromarketing. Short PR piece from Zenzi.
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Perception in the Brain's Clock
Fascinating piece in New Scientist about how the brain's clock changes our perception and view of reality. Mentioned is the classic 'wagon wheel illusion', ' .....
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Blob Robot
IRobot, best known for its Roomba floor sweep ing robot, has developed a prototype robot for DARPA that can fit into tight spaces via its morphable form. Robotic...
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Social Media Counter
A display of changes in social media over time. The specifics are not that useful, but it is an impressive representation of how many people are engaging with social...
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