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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
SAP’s new Mobility Design Center uses user-centered design approach
A few days ago SAP announced the opening of the new SAP Mobility Design Center to help customers meet the growing need for individualized mobile solutions. Headquartered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Analytics Vendors to Watch
An intriguing list to take a look at. Mostly relatively start up to small companies. Have seen a number of these, but many were new to me. Have talked to a...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
What Is The Object?
A tale of two approaches to solve open problems Jeff Kahn and Gil Kalai are among the top problem solvers in the world, and each has won notable prizes in his great...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Blog
A blog by an employee of Metaio, that covers the augmented reality industry. " ... which develops and provides augmented reality solutions for brands, agencies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cybernetic Binoculars
I have been following a number of DARPA developments. Here a project which seeks to link brain waves and sensor interactions. A kind of brain augmentation that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amid Transformation
Short report in AdAge about thriving amidst transformation. That technology breeds innovation, which then leads back to tech again. And that " ... People andPlus several...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Talking to Administrators and Board Members About Computer Science
We talk to students every day. We talk to parents a few times a year. How often do you talk to your principal, superintendent or school board members? If it's not...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 Records ten Million Products
The GS1 Global product registry has reached 10 million products registered. Full press release.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Useful Innovation
In Forbes: Innovation is about nurturing ideas. But always with a focus and strong recognition that it exists within a context.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Building a “Data Eye in the Sky”
Nearly a year ago, tech writer John Markoff published a story in The New York Times about Open Source Indicators (OSI), a new program by the Federal government’s...
From Wild WebMink
FLOSS Weekly on JasperSoft
I was co-host on FLOSS Weekly again this week, and the guest was the community manager from JasperSoft, who make Jasper Reports and other business intelligence software...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Beached Firefly Squid
Pretty photo of firefly squid beached along a coast. I've written about firefly squid before. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From Schneier on Security
Another Review of Liars and Outliers
I usually don't post reviews of Liars and Outliers -- they're all here -- but I am particularly proud of this one.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Paperless Coupons
Another example of paperless coupons, here for Tops. Adding promotions to your loyalty account is increasing in frequency. " .... The Click-to-Card coupons have...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Discovery Informatics: Science Challenges for Intelligent Systems
This past February in Arlington, VA, Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute) and Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University) co-organized...
From Putting People First
Five experts on what comes after the touchscreen
Post-touch hasn’t found the killer use case that the mouse found with GUIs and the touchscreen found with mobile web browsing and apps — but it’s not for lack of...
From Putting People First
Can ethnography save enterprise social networking?
In this guest post for Ethnography Matters, Mike Gotta from Cisco Systems, makes the case for bringing the human back into enterprise software design and development...
From Putting People First
The workplace of 2025 will be wherever you want it
Sampling views from a panel representing Imperial College London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Washington, other international...
From Putting People First
Book: Communicating the User Experience
Communicating the User Experience: A Practical Guide for Creating Useful UX Documentation by Richard Caddick and Steve Cable Wiley 2011, 352 pages ISBN 978-1119971108...
From The Eponymous Pickle