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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 Eponymous Pickle
Brains on LEDs
An interesting experiment, that could have some implication for direct EEG visualization. Applications for neuromarketing? But see the Brainwashed book, for...
From Computational Complexity
A(nother) nice use of Gen Functions
In a prior post I tried to give a simple example of a proof that uses Gen Functions where there was no other way to do it. For better or worse, before I posted...
From Apophenia
Whistleblowing Is the New Civil Disobedience: Why Edward Snowden Matters
Like many other civil liberties advocates, I’ve been annoyed by how the media has spilled more ink talking about Edward Snowden than the issues that he’s trying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Infrastructure Performance Management
Not a concept I had ever thought about, but as we continue to pump more data and device interactions across an Internet of Things, may become crucial. In CWworld...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Improving Your Life
In Adage: " ... Can Your Toothpaste Change Your Life? P&G Thinks So'Everyday Effect' Campaign Aims to Show Just How P&G Touches And Improves Lives ... Procter...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Robert Medrano
Today we return to Texas to talk to Robert Medrano who teaches about as far south as you can get in the US. I met Robert at a TCEA conference a few years ago where...
From Putting People First
Interaction design: what we know and what we need to know
Recently Steve Whittaker, professor of human-computer interaction at the University of California at Santa Cruz, sat on a national committee to evaluate HCI research...
From Putting People First
Human-centered design for new models of wellness and innovation
A year ago, in July 2012, Business Innovation Factory (BIF) began a partnership with Children’s Medical Center in Dallas to find “new models of care”, and better...
From Putting People First
Three categories of wearables will become prevalent, says Intel chief
Three different categories of device – for the ears, eyes and wrists, and each with its own set of uses – will soon become prevalent, predicts new Intel chief executive...
From Putting People First
“An Aura of Familiarity”
In 2013, the Technology Horizons Program of the Institute for the Future commissioned six leading science fiction writers — Cory Doctorow, Rudy Rucker, Warren Ellis...
From Putting People First
Can interaction design civilize the experience economy?
The emerging experience economy offers a possibility—yet only a possibility—for rethinking and designing new frameworks for social interaction and new forms of...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ghostbusting Old Factoring Ideas
Can ‘Shades’ of Carmichael Numbers be busted? MAA source Robert Carmichael was an American mathematician who worked and published in various areas of mathematics...
From Schneier on Security
PRISM Q&A
Mikko Hypponen and I answered questions about PRISM on the TED website.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multi National Supply Chains in China
In Knowledge@Wharton: (In English and Chinese). " ... Chinese Supply Chains Reach an ‘Inflection Point’ – and Multinationals Recast Strategies ... " Precisely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cities in a Complex World
From the Santa Fe Institute: I used to be our representative to SFI in the 90s and we got quite a few inspirations from them, and we provided them with problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flexible Workplaces and the New Mobile World
In SMB Resource: This article was brought to my attention recently. It struck home because I have been working with companies that are increasingly specifying...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Open Commission Meeting on July 19
The FCC will discuss the IP Speech-to-Speech Relay program and a report on the implementation of Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts On Mobile Phone Development
For the second year the annual CSTA Conference has had a mobile phone development “throwdown.” In this session each participant has 15 minutes to create a mobile...
From Schneier on Security
Snowden's Dead Man's Switch
Edward Snowden has set up a dead man's switch. He's distributed encrypted copies of his document trove to various people, and has set up some sort of automatic...
From The Eponymous Pickle