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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
Predicting Illness
In New Scientist: Here using data that comes from Twitter. I mentioned worked we did some years ago that used over the counter sales data. Twitter data is probably...
From Schneier on Security
Police Sting Operation Yields No Mobile Phone Thefts
Police in Hastings, in the UK, outfitted mobile phones with tracking devices and left them in bars and restaurants, hoping to catch mobile phone thieves in thestole...
From Wild WebMink
Call For Participation
Have you ever attended an open source conference? In my article for ComputerWorldUK today, I briefly review four good choices that you can attend over the next...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Mobile Talks
In the latest Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative newsletter there are a number of videos from a recent conference that deal with mobile customer behavior. Here...
From Wild WebMink
Explaining OSI Membership
The video of my keynote at OSCON is now live on YouTube: That link I mentioned: opensource.org/join
From The Eponymous Pickle
Offshoring and Innovation
In CIO: Can off shoring inhibit innovation? Only if it is poorly integrated with other corporate missions.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Playable Quests
Quests in video games are a nice way to give players choices to make and offer a story line that seems a bit less linear. Have you noticed, though, that most quests...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Facts No One Really Checks
Basic theorems that rarely get proved in full detail Laura Smoller is not a theorist, but a historian at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She sports the...
From Computational Complexity
The Combinatorics of Batman
(I wrote this post about a year ago but waited until the new Batmanmovie came out to post it. I haven't seen the movie yet sothere may more possibilities to add...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces Video Contest for Graduate Research Fellows
To help mark the 60th anniversary of its Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), the National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new video contest —...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Hospital Doctor Bedside Robotics
In Computerworld: A good overview of the development of telemedicine using robotics from iRobot. Includes images of how this would be implemented. I suggest...
From Putting People First
Is UX strategy fundamentally incompatible with agile or lean UX?
The take of the author Paul Bryan: UX strategy and agile UX are neither compatible nor incompatible. In an agile shop, UX strategists have to get ahead of the curve...
From Putting People First
UX for learning: design guidelines for the learner experience
With educational applications for kids, corporate eLearning, and online degree programs, more and more UX designers face design briefs for creating digital experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Less Groupthink
The broad concept of 'brainstorming', beloved by big business for many decades, has taken a hit recently as creating group think pablum that was not worth the effort...
From Schneier on Security
Making Handcuff Keys with 3D Printers
Handcuffs pose a particular key management problem. Officers need to be able to unlock handcuffs locked by another officer, so they're all designed to be opened...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Wearable Tech Wearable
From Artefactgroup: A good overview of the subject. When we explored this we discovered that the devices were not very wearable in the context of performing...
From Putting People First
Making wearable technology wearable
This week at the San Francisco Wearable Technology Conference, Jennifer Darmour, UX designer at the Artefact Group, shared with other wearable technology experts...
From Putting People First
Experientia collaborating with UCLA Anderson School of Management
Experientia is one of 15 Italian companies and 53 companies worldwide participating in UCLA’s exclusive 2012 Global Access Program (GAP). GAP pairs Fully Employed...
From Wild WebMink
Portland Submarine tour
Portland Submarine tour, a set on Flickr. One enjoyable perk of being a speaker at OSCON and a new author at O’Reilly Media was an invitation to their “Friends”...
From The Eponymous Pickle