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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What’s In It For The Company?
Last night there was some chatter on Twitter about news that The World’s First LEGO School Set to Open in Denmark! It’s an interesting idea with a goal to include...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Age of Smart Machines
In the Economist: Can we, will the knowledge worker be replaced and when? Kurt Vonnegut is invoked from his novel Piano Player. We certainly believed this "...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Crash course in modern economics
I sometimes find it difficult to understand the financial news. So I have written down some notes to help me understand commonly used terms: Austerity: When a government...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Information Insertion at Point of Need
From the BBC: What a good ridiculously simple idea, a sticker applied to Mercedes vehicles that contains a QR code, which directs first responders to rescue methods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designer Storytelling
Artifacts and more in storytelling. You would think that today the universality of information technology would always bring it to the forefront as a required...
From Putting People First
BBC on exploring and enhancing the TV user experience
The BBC’s R&D department has been working on how to exploit the interactive functionality now available through connected televisions through a number of projects...
From Putting People First
Social networks of mobile money in Kenya
Social networks of mobile money in Kenya Sibel Kusimba, Harpieth Chaggar, Elizabeth Gross, & Gabriel Kunyu Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion...
From Putting People First
A selection from academia.edu
Academia.edu, the platform for academics to share research papers, contains quite a few documents from fields such as design research, experience design and interaction...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 May 2013
Memorial Day in the US today. Today we remember the men and women who have fallen in battle serving their county in the military. My Dad didn’t die in battle though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fragility and Convexity
Long on my reading list, this essay by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Some fascinating thoughts: " ... The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blogs and Posts
The language log takes on the difference between blogs and posts. To blog and all that. Here I write a post about the subject. All language is fluid, and in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Language Killing Innovation?
At first I bristled at this. In Innovation excellence, but they make a point about being able to switch between visual and textual language that I have to agree...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trends Driving Technology Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Trends driving technology innovation. Nothing surprising here, but worth reviewing. All the things they mention have been done for some...
From Putting People First
For consumers, an ‘Open Data’ society is a misnomer
Despite all the hoopla about an “open data” society, many consumers are being kept in the dark, writes Natasha Singer in The New York Times. “A few companies are...
From Putting People First
Book: Design For Care – Innovating Healthcare Experience
Design For Care – Innovating Healthcare Experience Peter Jones Rosenfeld Media, 2013 376 pages The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing in...
From My Biased Coin
An Unusual CS Student Blog
As I'm up working/watching a Memorial Day weekend Arrested Development marathon (OK, I'm not working that hard), I found myself wandering over to Justine Bateman's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glass Nests
Saw this in Engadget. My colleagues and I worked on the notion of the 'automated' home in the innovation centers. The idea has been around since at least 1990...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The $33 Trillion Technology Payoff … All computer science, all the time …
Steve Lohr reports in the New York Times: “A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the consulting firm … not only selects a dozen ‘disruptive’...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Use a Common Standard, If You Want to
Wow, this an old controversy. The switch to the metric system. I remember writing a piece about it in high school for a technical newsletter. Still in the news...
From The Eponymous Pickle