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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
Data Company Emerges from Stanford Math
In BusinessWeek:With today’s powerful data analysis systems, users gather a ton of information—a breakdown of Wal-Mart Stores’ (WMT) sales in the U.S. or things...
From My Biased Coin
Ad Board Update
We've finally got an update on the Government 1310 situation. As reported by the Crimson, FAS Dean Mike Smith sent out an email Friday, where he wrote that“somewhat...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biological Simulation
In CACM: New progress in sources of data, and simulation analytics, and better and more complete models of biological systems are leading to better simulated systems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Questions about Conversations with a System
My thoughts and questions prompted by an article today In the NYT: As alert systems and devices start having extended conversations with us, can we expect them...
From Putting People First
Talking, walking objects
The future is rich with sensor-based, animated devices to give us affirmation, coach us and just plain keep us company. Smart Design’s Carla Diana gives a good...
From Putting People First
Nicholas Carr on taking Clay Shirky’s ‘cognitive surplus’ idea to its logical, fascistic extreme
Max Levchin [one of the Silicon Valley elite—computer scientist, cofounder of PayPal, buddy of Peter Thiel, Yahoo director, restless entrepreneur, big thinker,...
From Putting People First
Redesigning public services so they can actually help people
Although I don’t agree with the implicit meaning of this Fast Company title (i.e. that public services currently do not help people – whereas the real issue is...
From Putting People First
Social Innovation Europe Magazine interviews Ezio Manzini
For more than two decades Ezio Manzini has been working in the field of design for sustainability. Recently, he focused his interests on social innovation –he started...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Cities Critique
Think of Smart Cities as extremely complex version of process control. With the added complexity of a mix of difficult to predict people. It also reminds me of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Failed Resource Predictions
Some examples of failed resource availability projections. In many cases some huge misses despite the apparent sophistication of the models. Forecasting models...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Better Products
Thoughtful piece in GigaOM: About the process of coming up with new products and extensions. Starting with knowing what has been done before. This article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Search Graph Means to Retail
What Facebook Search Graph Means to Retail. In POPAI: " " ... Basically, the bigger a brand’s fan base and, more importantly, the more active they are, the more...
From Putting People First
Dan Hill’s critique of the smart cities movement
Dan Hill (of CityofSound, ARUP, Sitra and now Fabrica fame) is not only extremely prolific, but his writing is also very much to the point. His latest Smart City...
From Putting People First
Launch of Global Ethnographic, a free online journal
Global Ethnographic is a brand new, general interest, peer reviewed web journal featuring the field research and perspectives shaping our social world. Free and...
From Putting People First
The four waves of user-centered design
Dr. William Gribbons is director of the Master of Science in Human Factors in Information Design and founder and senior consultant of the Design and Usability Center...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Waves for Fast Device Communication
New to me in New Scientist: " ... This type of electromagnetic wave stays at the interface between the surface of an object and the air, rather than travelling...
From Apophenia
mourning and public-ness
When I ranted about how the media’s incessant desire to get the story was not allowing the people of Newtown to mourn, I did not expect that I’d be mourning the...
From My Biased Coin
Friday Ruminations
It's felt like a bad few weeks at Harvard.Not that anything actually BAD has happened, like an inexplicable paper rejection or some interdepartmental fight or anything...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Acquires Minority Stake in Verix
Reported about " ... Verix, Inc., a designer and developer of enterprise performance management and analytics solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. ... ".Verix...
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