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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 Wild WebMink
Nesting Time
Are Nest Labs through to open ground at last? After its brush with an especially unpleasant patent troll, the tide seems to be changing for the makers of the Nest...
From Putting People First
The future of data visualisation
Drew Skau, a visualization architect of Visual.ly, explores what will change in data visualisation in the future: - Data visualization will become ubiquitous -...
From Putting People First
Does your phone know how happy you are?
Kit Eaton explores the coming of age of the emotion-recognition industry. “Because the smartphones we all carry contain sophisticated computing power, cloud computing...
From Putting People First
Computational user experiences at Microsoft Research
“The Computational User Experiences (CUE) group [at Microsoft Research] creates technologies that augment our personal and professional digital lives to enhance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing the Complexity of the Supply Chain
Good overview about how 3M is addressing the complexity of its supply chain. The solutions used are common examinations that a large enterprise has to make. Analytical...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
My Air, My Health: Developing a Personal Pollution Sensor
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) — notably its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and National Institute...
From Computational Complexity
Mihai P?tra?cu (1982-2012)
Mihai P?tra?cu passed away Tuesday after a bout with brain cancer. Even though he hadn't reached his 30th birthday, he had already produced a number of major achievements...
From Schneier on Security
Homeland Security as Security Theater Metaphor
Look at the last sentence in this article on hotel cleanliness: "I relate this to homeland security. We are not any safer, but many people believe that we are,"...
From Putting People First
Forget B-School, D-School is hot
The Wall Street Journal published the umpteenth article on design thinking education. What I keep on missing in these pieces is some reflection on what understanding...
From Putting People First
An open letter to the User Experience Community
In an open letter to the User Experience Community, Rich Gunther, President of what used to be called Usability Professionals Association (UPA), announces that...
From My Biased Coin
Sad Passing: Mihai Patrascu
Mikkel Thorup just sent me the following to post regarding Mihai Patrascu. ---------------Mihai Patrascu, aged 29, passed away on Tuesday June 5, 2012, after a1...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Achieving the Perfect Map
In the Lat Log Blog; Excellent piece on elements of a perfect map. Maps are simplifications of very complex and data rich concepts. The drive continues to think...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on House Cybersecurity Information Sharing Bill
In late April the House considered and passed several pieces of cybersecurity legislation. At the time USACM released a statement with general recommendations for...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finalists for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum
Today the US Partners in Learning team announced the Finalists for the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2012 US Forum. There are a lot of great projects in that list...
From My Biased Coin
Verification in the Cloud [Guest Post by Justin Thaler]
[Justin talks about his upcoming work, to be presented at HotCould.] For the past few years, Michael and I, along with our awesome collaborators, have worked towards...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence in the Cloud
Pretty obvious that Cloud concepts will be important for data delivery to Business Intelligence. A quick take here. Expect the trend to continue as more social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Strategy
Mckinsey on the crowd sourcing of strategy. Can the crowd have strategic wisdom? And, which crowd should be involved? The latter is often a key issue in crowd...
From Schneier on Security
Ghostery
Ghostery is a Firefox plug-in that tracks who is tracking your browsing habits in cyberspace. Here's a TED talk by Gary Kovacs, the CEO of Mozilla Corp., on it...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF-Led Merit Review Global Summit Results in Six Principles
Back in January, the National Science Board (NSB)
From The Eponymous Pickle