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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
Gestural interaction with data
The Ericsson UX Lab has been prototyping and testing gestural interaction solutions with data: “This spring we worked on how to visualise and interact with data...
From Putting People First
Qualitative research, UX strategy and wicked problems
These are the topics of the latest update on UX Matters: Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantitative and Qualitative Research By Demetrius Madrigal and Bryan McClain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business in Business intelligence
By now anyone who works for a business should know this, but it bears repeating: In Information Managment: "... Business intelligence projects have historically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Tests Smartphone Self Checkout
Not very much detail here, but it's not unexpected that we will soon see the idea of the shopper using their own device appearing more often. But will these Apps...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Organizations would not pass the Turing test
In Computer Science, we often informally judge intelligence by using the Turing test. The Turing test is quite simple: if you can convince an observer that you...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Your programming language does not know about elementary mathematics
In Mathematics, we typically require equality to form equivalence classes. That is, it should be reflexive: A should be equal to A. Moreover, it should be symmetric...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Embraces Augmented Reality
A nice example of the use of augmented reality for a catalog. A very good place to try the idea first. Much more at the link. I plan to try this at the nearby...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skepticism About Smart
Jerry Michalski posts in Rexpedition about his skepticism regarding the smarter world of things. I like to hear the other side. I am not as skeptical, but based...
From Putting People First
Curious Rituals – Gestural interaction in the digital everyday
Curious Rituals is a research project conducted at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) in July-August 2012 by Nicolas Nova (The Near Future Laboratory / HEAD...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experiential Retail
AT&T makes a move into experience retail, looking like the Apple store. In Chicago: " ... The gleaming 10,000-square-foot space -- complete with an Apps Bar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing your Facebook
It has been some time since I looked at Wolfram Alpha. Its a system that lets you integrate multiple forms of data and semantic interaction to solve problems,An...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 September 2012
Happy Labor Day! Today is commonly thought of as the last day of summer in the US. Few if any schools in the US will start (with students) later than tomorrow. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Real World Objects in Videos
In Slashdot: Discussion of a Google patent for this. It is a fundamental exercise for applications like autonomous robotics to be able to understand their world...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Wal-Mart Search
In CIO Today: Deeper understanding of semantics in content proves to be a valuable lever. " ... Dubbed Polaris, Walmart's search tech seems to be working well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Commerce Summit
Doing an invited appearance at the Smarter Commerce Summit this coming week in Orlando, September 5-7. Blogging and tweeting the experience. If there is anything...
From My Biased Coin
Uncertainty
There's an interesting new article on the Gov 1310 case* on the Crimson yesterday, titled Students Accused in Cheating Scandal Frustrated by Uncertain Process....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Analytics
Was recently pointed to Birst Analytics. Agile as presented is a good idea. Looking forward to taking a closer look. See their blog for a taste of what they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Learns to Recognize Itself
New developments in robotics, especially those that can understand and react to their own context, is always of interest.
From Putting People First
Focus on service design – in UK and in Italy
Earlier this year, the UK Design Council and the Arts & Humanities Research Council conducted a wide ranging review of the place of design research in UK universities...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson