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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
Design principles for complex, unpredictable, people oriented systems
InfoDesign alerts us to a well-thought through post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger of IBM on experience and systems: “But, socio-technical systems are oriented toward...
From Putting People First
Digital differences in the USA
When the Pew Internet Project first began writing about the role of the internet in American life in 2000, there were stark differences between those who were using...
From Putting People First
European Commission consults on rules for
The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is a future in which everyday objects such as phones, cars, household appliances, clothes and even food are wirelessly connected...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to manipulate the masses by language alone
George Orwell with novel 1984 popularized the idea that by changing the language, you could change the minds. It is easy to forget that we are routinely victims...
From Putting People First
Prisma kitchen at Eurocucina 2012
A high-tech kitchen and an instant classic, designed by Experientia, for Toncelli kitchens Minimalist design in a high-tech kitchen Experientia is taking part in...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Craft of Research
"I still don't know what the f**k I'm doing." I was so relieved when recently I heard a superstar researcher, a full professor in computer science, say this about...
From My Biased Coin
In the News this Week...
Our large data sets work on MIC is discussed in Nature Biotechnology. (Funnily, none of the us authors of the paper knew this was coming out. One of us heardGroupon...
From Schneier on Security
Disguising Tor Traffic as Skype Video Calls
One of the problems with Tor traffic is that it can de detected and blocked. Here's SkypeMorph, a clever system that disguises Tor traffic as Skype video traffic...
From Wild WebMink
Open Source And Cut-Throat Competition
If your perception of open source is that it’s all about volunteers and hobbyists working selflessly for the betterment of humanity, the cloud computing market...
From Wild WebMink
Speculating About Microsoft
Microsoft just launched a new subsidiary to interact with open source communities. I’ve seen plenty of “what they did” reporting but so far no “why”. My (highly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Value of Mobile for the Small and Medium Size Business
Good post with statistics for using with the Small and Medium Size Business. " .... What are SMBs top business challenges, and how well do mobile solutions help...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and Human Behavior
Interesting view of how Facebook is being used as a means of understanding why people do what they do. Intriguing, but I wonder how well it works in an artificial...
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to Radhika Nagpal
I'm very, very happy to report that Radhika Nagpal has been offered tenure at Harvard.Radhika works in several areas, including biologically inspired multi-agent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pinterest Guide for Marketers
I have been exploring this for use as an image-oriented story-telling communications platform. Here is a good introductory guide for marketers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visible Supply Chain
The topic of how to make a supply chain visible as possible has been examined many times. As far back as the 70s we experimented with the topic using call-in reporting...
From Schneier on Security
Bomb Threats As a Denial-of-Service Attack
The University of Pittsburgh has been the recipient of 50 bomb threats in the past two months (over 30 during the last week). Each time, the university evacuates...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
More of what has caught my attention recently:$1B for Instagram was silly and caused by fear ([1] [2] [3] [4]), but it is impressive the scale Instagram built with...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog