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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
Headline: Value Drives Loyalty
In Mediapost: Surprise, consumer experience, especially 'delight' drives loyalty. Nothing very new here, but the specifics of the categories and data are interesting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Releases Report on Cloud Computing
The National Science Foundation (NSF) yesterday released a report on its support for cloud computing, describing the outcomes of “investments in cloud computing...
From Schneier on Security
Error Rates of Hand-Counted Voting Systems
The error rate for hand-counted ballots is about two percent. All voting systems have nonzero error rates. This doesn't surprise technologists, but does surprise...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Tools for Teaching Adults to Program
We seem to be developing tools to teach younger and younger people to program. Kodu in theory is for students 8 and older but I know that some 6 and 7 years olds...
From Wild WebMink
How To Fight ACTA
Now that the US bills SOPA and PIPA have been put on ice, attention has returned to their parent, an international treaty called ACTA. I’ve written extensively...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Argus Insights : Product Innovation
Brought to my attention by a client: Argus Insights. " ... Products that exceed user expectations win. Very simply, delighted customers buy more.Companies that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real World Retail Analytics Using Kinect
Just brought to my attention. Shopperception: " ... The Kinect sensors allow us to bring new and exciting 3D spatial recognition tools to the market research...
From Schneier on Security
The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication
In 2005, I wrote an essay called "The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication," where I predicted that attackers would get around multi-factor authentication systems...
From Computational Complexity
Competition
A few people have asked me my opinions on Oded Goldreich's essay On Struggle and Competition in Scientific Fields. I read through Oded's essay I expected to highly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big CPG Ad Spenders Plan to Ease Back
In Ad Age. Detailed piece on the plans of Procter & Gamble and Unilever in ad spending. Some speculation but considerable useful information.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 6
February 7 Markup: The House Science, Space and Technology Committee will review pending legislation, including a bill to amend the High Performance Computing Act...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Children
Late last month, Children’s Hospital Boston announced the launch of the CLARITY Challenge
From Putting People First
Interaction 12: Keynote by Anthony Dunne
Ciara Taylor was also at Interaction 12 in Dublin and reports on the keynote talk by Anthony Dunne for Core77. “Interaction design and designing interactions… are...
From Putting People First
Interaction 12: Day Three
There was magic in the air on the final day of the Interactions 12 conference in Dublin, as a number of speakers drew the connections between magic and design,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 February 2012
I’m headed to Austin TX today for the Texas Computer Educators Association (TCEA) conference. Hoping to see some old friends and meet some new friends. If youMrYongpradit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Model of Human Health Behavior Change
We worked with Stanford Professor BJ Fogg several times in the enterprise. I am very late to discover this, but he has created a new model of human behavior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Gaming for Engagment
In the NYT: Good general piece on gaming for brand engagement. Mentioning the example of Samsung in some detail. " ... Samsung is embracing a business trendThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Watson Changing Careers
More indications that artificial intelligence, much promoted in the late 80s, is back again. Based on the same kinds of rule-based, certainty quantification...
From The Eponymous Pickle