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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 Schneier on Security
Sensible Comments about Terrorism
Two, at least: "Bee stings killed as many in UK as terrorists, says watchdog." "Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Own Furniture as by Terrorism." Is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power of Low Self Confidence
Surprising statement on the face of it, from the HBR. Bottom line, it makes you more sensitive to feedback, and the ability to adjust your approaches to be more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cost of Digital Information
A rarely examined cost. Some stats I have seen nowhere else. " ... From confidential customer information, to intellectual property, to financial transactions,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing PR
Mind Hacks takes a hack at Neuromarketing. I think there is something to be considered here. There is value in trying new methods to augment traditional ones...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Code School's Git Lesson: Not a Huge Fan
Code School recently put out a free lesson on Git with the tagline "Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?" With the promise of it being so short I decided to give...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 9
July 10 Discussion: Deputy Chief Technology Officer Daniel Weitzner will be featured in a discussion on federal Internet policy making. 12 noon, The Hudson Institute...
From Schneier on Security
Students Hack DHS Drone
A team at the University of Texas successfully spoofed the GPS and took control of a DHS drone, for about $1,000 in off-the-shelf parts. Does anyone think that...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 July 2012
I am writing this from Irvine California where I have come for the CSTA CS & IT Conference. I have already had a bunch of great conversations with people who arrived...
From Putting People First
Design alone can
Making products attractive and user-friendly is a smart idea, but it is no substitute for R&D and investment, argues James Woudhuysen, a professor of forecasting...
From Putting People First
In a Fisher-Price lab, apps become child
At a Fisher-Price lab, researchers watch children at play to come up with ideas for new products, including toys that incorporate apps on iPads and iPhones. At...
From Putting People First
Perspectives in experience design
Milan Guenther, founding partner of enterprise design associates, explores the word “user” in “user experience”, and compares it to customer experience, employee...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Checking Out With QThru
A Seattle startup that seeks to deliver smartphone enabled scanning and retail checkout. More detail at the Qthru site. We examined this approach a number of...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2012 Challenge: People Search
As we get ready for the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval this October in Cambridge, MA, people around the world are working...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PowerHouse Factories: Brand Culture Plus Data with Analytics
Reconnected this past week with PowerHouse Factories. Impressed by their linking branding with data and analytics. Build the brand, but immediately link in how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
QR Codes on Book Covers
QR codes showing up on all book covers of some publishers. Like Simon and Schuster. Not unexpected as more consumers are getting used to seeing the codes in...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Grilling Quantum Circuits
Polynomial algebra turns up the heat Amlan Chakrabarti is currently finishing a postdoc at Princeton University, while on leave from the University of Calcutta...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Less Than Wisdom of Crowds
In the NYT: A number of recent examples have shown that the crowd, as exemplified by well known wisdom aggregations like Intrade, is not always correct. Sometimes...
From The Eponymous Pickle