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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
Service design in the physical space and why it makes sense to design for a minority
The physical environment in which a service plays out has a significant influence on the experience of a service. So it’s not uncommon for service design projects...
From Putting People First
New Ericsson report on needs of today’s smartphone and mobile internet users
A new Ericsson ConsumerLab report, Unlocking Consumer Value, identifies the needs of today’s smartphone and mobile internet users. “The rapid uptake of smartphones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smaller Tablets
Looking a several projects that aim to deliver information to small executive groups. Mobile is esential. The question is what are the likely formats of theNow...
From Wild WebMink
Porn Summit Actively Harmful
The government clearly wishes to be seen to be doing something about the issues of children viewing pornography and of child pornography. To this end they have called...
From Schneier on Security
Details of NSA Data Requests from US Corporations
Facebook (here), Apple (here), and Yahoo (here) have all released details of US government requests for data. They each say that they've turned over user datamuch...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Why Game Designers Should Understand Procedural Rhetoric
I am sometimes asked why I think stories in games need to improve. Considering I'm studying nonlinear stories in games for my PhD project, I was for a long time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DunnHumby Buys Standard Analytics
Just announced. A further indication of movement of more data gathering and integrating companies moving towards the use of stronger predictive analytics. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sandra Hughes Coaching Strategies
Former colleague Sandra Hughes, For a time chief privacy office of Procter & Gamble, has just set up a blog: Sandra Hughes Strategies. Check it out. She does...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Secrecy and Personal Privacy
In an excellent essay about privacy and secrecy, law professor Daniel Solove makes an important point. There are two types of NSA secrecy being discussed. It's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and Analytics Need Stories
In Fast Company: Stories simplify, integrate complex things into an understandable thread, engage. That includes data and analytics, but is not often done well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weave Data Visualization into Your Business
Excellent overview piece on the topic, which makes the point that the business process must be woven into the quantifications and visuals, a favorite topic of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Communicating Data
In the HBR: Data needs to be gathered, understood, communicated and embedded in the decision process. You need quant people to make this happen. This article"...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Presentations from the Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored the Simons Institute Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing. The three-day symposium brought together...
From Schneier on Security
Evidence that the NSA Is Storing Voice Content, Not Just Metadata
Interesting speculation that the NSA is storing everyone's phone calls, and not just metadata. Definitely worth reading. I expressed skepticism about this just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Feedly Replaces My Google Reader
In anticipation of Google's Reader RSS shut down in a couple of weeks I have moved to the free Feedly service. Both as an App and in Chrome. Works well, and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Code.org Video Released
Code.Org has just released a new video promoting computer science that may be especially effective for creating broader public awareness among policy leaders and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Hashing and the Birthday paradox: a cautionary tale
If you meet a stranger, the probability that he will have the same birth date as yourself is probably less than 1%. It is roughly 1/365 if you make simplifying...
From Computational Complexity
Fraud or not ?
For each of these, are they frauds? The Turk was a chess playing ``computer'' (around 1770) that was later discovered to be cheating--- a human made the moves...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consequence of EU Tightening Data Privacy Further
A good Adage Article on how the revelations of massive private data leaks could make the EU further tighten data privacy. What does this mean and and what are the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM