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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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Facebook Partners for Artificial Intelligence
Facebook joins NYU for AI Lab. They certainly have a lot of social data. Part of a new push towards practical, Big Data oriented AI. IBM's Watson is another...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Details Left To The Reader…
The buck stops here—on a blog, that is Stasys Jukna has written a comprehensive book on Boolean circuit complexity, called Boolean Function Complexity: Advances...![[Book] Design Transitions](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
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[Book] Design Transitions
Design Transitions – Inspiring Stories. Global Viewpoints. How design is changing. By Joyce Yee, Emma Jefferies and Lauren Tan BIS Publishers [Book site - Amazon...
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Watson Drives Big Data Analytics and Visualization
Listened to these announcements, and the link to analytics is particularly interesting:" ... IBM Watson Analytics aims to remove common impediments in the data ...
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Furniture Augmented Reality
Now an App from the prolific Augmented Pixels company. Think of these applications as mixing real life contexts and digital contexts. Note some similaritiesAR...
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What Does Big Data Look Like?
In Wired: The more complex, large and volatile a database is, the more important it is to understand it first with visualization. As I often preach: The first...
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Shaping Behavior in Real Time
Devices are already shaping our behavior in real time, but not always to our advantage. Experientia makes the claim that this is a frontier of design. Sensors...
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The new design: social innovation inspiring business innovation
Cheryl Heller of CommonWise argues that there’s a new design emerging that works from inside a community and at a systems level, impacting human relationships instead...
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Design’s next big frontier? Shaping behavior in real time
Small devices with embedded intelligence can do more than just measure; they’re showing their potential to change the way we act, writes Sean Madden in Fast Company...
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Solving the right problem and finding your own solution: an interview with Don Norman
At the LAUX Meetup Group, Media Contour’s Luke Swenson was able to track down Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition...
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[Book] The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think
The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think by Douglas T. Kenrick and Vladas Griskevicius Basic Books September 2013 [Amazon link] Abstract...
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[Essay] Empathy on the edge
Empathy on the Edge Scaling and sustaining a human-centered approach in the evolving practice of design Katja Battarbee, Jane Fulton Suri, and Suzanne Gibbs Howard...
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The UX of commercial drones
In order for commercial drones like Amazon’s or Australian startup Flirtey’s to become a reality, the drone (or any future-world technology, really) can’t merely...
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150,000 job listings in the user experience field in the USA alone
Hiring managers know that design plays, and will continue to play, a critical role in the success of their companies because: What has been seen cannot be unseen...
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[Book] War, Peace, and Human Nature
War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views Douglas P. Fry Oxford University Press April 2013 [Amazon link] Abstract Have humans...
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Discover the world’s best mobile UX
To help you build better mobile experiences, UX Archive finds and presents mobile’s most interesting user flows so you can “compare them, build your point of view...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why is the NSA grabbing all your private data?
Snowden revealed to the world that the NSA was systematically spying on all of us. Maybe more critically, we have learned that the NSA is spying on all American...
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Promotion Crazy Consumers
We have all seen it, in ourselves and others. The rational economic model can quickly fall apart. A discussion of how to promote to promotion crazy consumer in...
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Technology Influences Storytelling
Internet influence on storytelling. Not really about technology, but how it influences how we write. In the NYT.
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