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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
Augmented sensing through smartphones
So how are we doing to augment our senses through digital technologies? Here are some of the products currently on the market that allow people to augment their...
From The Noisy Channel
Information Cascades, Revisited
A couple of years ago, I blogged about an information cascade problem I’d read about in
From The Eponymous Pickle
L'Oreal Talks Global Marketing Direction and Practices
In AdAge: Cosmetics giant L'Oreal talks their global marketing practices. "...Call it the new Zen of global marketing. On one hand, L'Oreal seeks more products...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncanny Valleys of our Mind
As robots are starting to look more like people, the concept of what this means to our impressions of computing and interaction is starting to become important. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking Prescriptions
In Drug Store News: Wal-Mart is piloting a talking prescription system for the visually impaired.
From Schneier on Security
Israel Demanding Passwords at the Border
There have been a bunch of stories about employers demanding passwords to social networking sites, like Facebook, from prospective employees, and several states...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Push Your Personal Reset Button
Allan Cox, long time correspondent, has just come come out with a new book. I have not read it yet, but plan to. It is called: WHOA! Are They Glad You're in Their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping on New Consumer Paths
A new piece on the experimentation with doing mobile shopping along frequently traveled consumer paths. We are seeing new kinds of shopping and data being provided...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adstock Model of Advertising Effectiveness
The use of the Adstock Model was just brought to my attention. Have never utilized it, but wonder of there are others out there who have and have some comments...
From Wild WebMink
Introducing OpenRelief
Shane was very moved by the aftermath of the big earthquake in Japan last year. He decided practical action was needed, and with others founded the OpenRelief project...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP Holding Event on Public Sector Prizes
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
From Computational Complexity
Fortnoy's Complaint
During my daughter's 8th grade graduation last week, the teacher reading the names said "Molly Fortnoy...I mean Fortnow". I felt for Molly. When my name was first...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Seeking Advances in Spatial Uncertainty
The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Put the Where into Analytics
An important point in this general overview of the integration of Business Intelligence and Geographical Information Systems. GIS is a database with geographical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethics of Big Data
A good overview of how ethics and increased data capture relate: " ... As the collection, organization and retention of data has become commonplace in modern...
From Schneier on Security
Changing Surveillance Techniques for Changed Communications Technologies
New paper by Peter P. Swire -- "From Real-Time Intercepts to Stored Records: Why Encryption Drives the Government to Seek Access to the Cloud": Abstract: This...
From Putting People First
Charles Leadbeater: A curriculum for the Next Billion
Immediately a second post on writing done by Charles Leadbeater. Here he asks if we were to think of the future consumers of the developing world (whose income...
From Putting People First