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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
Privacy Implications of Cyborg Eyepieces
Much has been heard about the 'Google Glasses' idea of letting someone experience a place overlaid with a computer screen. We examined eye tracking and Neuromarketing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Get Your Washing Machine to Text
The Internet of things, where all things have an address and can communicate. Here, word of a way you can text the concept with real things.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellow Sharoda Paul Featured in the New York Times
Sharoda Paul, a former CIFellow, was recently featured in the New York Times article,“Looking to Industry for the Next Digital Disruption.” After her postdoctoral...
From Schneier on Security
Classified Information Confetti
Some of the confetti at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York consisted of confidential documents from the Nassau County Police Department, shredded sideways...
From Schneier on Security
Hackback
Stewart Baker, Orin Kerr, and Eugene Volokh on the legality of hackback.
From Wild WebMink
Locked-In With Open Source?
You can be if it’s not really open source. While open source forms a part of many proprietary solutions, the term “open source” should only be used to describe...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Words Matter
Not long ago someone tweeted “Stop using "guru," "ninja," and other terms for job descriptions. You are a Sparkly Code Princess. Own it!” It’s been running though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM DemandTec for Marketers
From IBM DemandTec, a good view of the need to construct valid shopper segmentation. Why? So we can use targeting to make sure the right consumer gets the most...
From Wild WebMink
MyGOSSCon Slides
I gave a presentation yesterday in Malaysia on the forces driving change in open source; here are the slides.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Analytics Foundation
New and growing. Contact us for more information.Data Analytics Foundation works with market-leading companies across multiple verticals, solving high impact...
From Putting People First
Research on Android tablet use in 5th grade classrooms
The series of research projects on tablet use in schools (see here, here and here) now also has an Android study. A small research project by Marie Bjerede and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I like the new C++
I was reading Vivek Haldar’s post on the new C++ (C++11) and I was reminded that I need to write such a post myself. C++ is a standardized language. And they came...
From Wild WebMink
Open Rights Group Maturing
In the space of a few weeks, the Open Rights Group (where I’m a volunteer director) has gone through a growth spurt, winning an award for campaigning work, launching...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Commenting on Communications
I am getting increasing number of Spam Comments with an author of 'Anonymous'. It is getting difficult to even scan all messages. If you would like to improve...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leveraging Big Data Around Customers
Good piece, because it is ultimately how you leverage the data, and leveraging it means that you use analytics to make it work with specific decision processes...
From Putting People First
MedLove, Berlin, 23rd of November
Post by Experientia UX researcher Anna Wojnarowska: The first MedLove conference, a UX and healthcare summit sponsored by Razorfish, took place this Friday in Berlin...
From Putting People First
Book: The Human Face of Big Data
Big Data is the subject of a forthcoming glossy photo book, a smartphone application for personal data analysis and comparison, and an interactive version of the...
From Putting People First
Learning and the emerging science of behavior change, aka ‘nudging’
The language of learning today is full of references to “softness” and “openness.” Software, soft skills, soft performance, and the softening up of school knowledge...
From Putting People First
Nearly all videos of UX Week 2012 now online
Our friends of Adaptive Path have uploaded (nearly) all videos of UX Week 2012, the premier user experience design conference that took place in August in San Francisco...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog