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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 Schneier on Security
The Federal Trade Commission and Privacy
New paper on the FTC and its actions to protect privacy: Abstract: One of the great ironies about information privacy law is that the primary regulation of privacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patent Trolling Against Location Systems
In GigaOM: Lawsuits have been issued against Apple and others. The patent mentions systems that can determine and utilize their location. Should could have...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsors Computational Sustainability Track at AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-13)
The following entry is a special contribution to this blog from Douglas H. Fisher, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. This year Doug...
From Putting People First
User-centred mobile app development in Kenya
The success of a mobile app – its high adoption rate and actual use – largely depends on the degree of involvement of the end user during the development stage....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Crowd sourcing Shower Taking
Not too many details, but consumer goods giant is exploring crowdsourcing for future consumer need and product development. Using the online package eYeka. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain to Brain Connections
This progress at the U of Washington implies more. Once you can establish a brain to brain connection, you can also connect a brain to Internet to brain connection...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skype Planning 3D Video
In Fast Company: Not sure this will be generally useful. Would prefer interface and quality improvements to Skype. Though in thinking it through it might be an...
From Putting People First
Seeing the elephant: defragmenting user research
“Forget Big Data — right now, our bigger problem is fragmented data that comes from siloed user research teams.” Just as we favor the research tools that we find...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kinect Launching a Surgical Revolution
Manipulating virtual images in no touch environments: " .... virtual images can be difficult to retrieve and manipulate. A surgeon can't use a mouse or keyboard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Power of the Cloud
In Computing Now: Insightful piece on why cloud computing is linked to innovation. I admit that I started out thinking that the Cloud was simply an obvious tool...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
D Plus O Equals Do
Our 500th post comes with a non-Federal proposal Cropped from HeinOnline source. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, and the 43rd person to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Funding science: When bureaucrats get out of control
Throughout most of the world, scientists are almost entirely dependent on one source of funding: their government. So every few years (or more often), professors...
From Schneier on Security
Feds Target Polygraph-Beating Company
A company that teaches people how to beat lie detectors is under investigation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Game Based Learning
Via the ACM: Digital Game-Based Learning. Abstract: Research published by University of Rochester neuroscientists C. Shawn Green and Daphne Bavelier has grabbed...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic stories for market learning
The July 2013 issue of the Journal of Marketing (a publication of AMA, the American Marketing Association) describes the results of a comprehensive study (pdf)...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Privacy, Protection, and Personal Safety
One of the great things about working in a top-10 computer science department is that I get to see which fields are really hot. At the University of Washington...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trusting a Data Scientist
A Challenge: Just because a study contains numbers or big data or statistics does not mean it is correct. So you should not completely trust any scientist for business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Civilizing Customer Behavior
In the HBR Blog Network: An anonymous, large network of commenters can lead to some nasty and self serving behavior. We all read customer reviews with an element...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Introducing the GHC13 Communities Committee
Did you know that the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing has a strong online presence? From Tweeting to blogging to note taking, we've got you covered...
From The Eponymous Pickle