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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
Jan Chipchase gets asked critical questions and responds
During the Pop!Tech conference, well known design researcher Jan Chipchase gave a talk about his research work. In the panel session an audience member asked two...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner View of IBM DemandTec Acquisition
A short post by Gartner on the proposed acquisition.. Some of the usual watch-outs with any acquisition. Certainly it is a means of bringing very specific retail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kaggle: Data Science as a Sport
Crowd sourcing prediction.. " ... Participate in competitions ... is an arena where you can match your data science skills against a global cadre of experts in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Pharma Information Tech
In the Recorded Future Blog. A good look at IT in Pharmaceuticals using the temporal search engine Recorded Future. This search engine semantically analyzes...
From Schneier on Security
Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
I have a love/hate relationship with the CATO Institute. Most of their analysis I strongly disagree with, but some of it I equally strongly agree with. Last September...
From Schneier on Security
TSA Cupcake Update
The TSA claims that the cupcake they confiscated was in a jar. So this is a less obviously stupid story than I previously thought.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM Determines Magnetic Memory Limits
Ahead of an article to be published in tomorrow’s
From Computational Complexity
Being Random and Trivial in Dagstuhl
This week I'm at the Computability, Complexity and Randomness workshop at Dagstuhl in Germany. This meeting brings together two groups, complexity theorists and...
From Schneier on Security
A Theory of Online Jihadist Sites
Very interesting: The counterterrorism community has spent years trying to determine why so many people are engaged in online jihadi communities in such a meaningful...
From Putting People First
Elizabeth Churchill on emotion
Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, was the speaker at the October 2011 Creative Mornings event in San Francisco. In her talk...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Image Sensors for Multiple Contexts
In Engadget: A concept for compact 360 degree image capture. Always interested in new sensor capture devices. What came to me immediately was the possible use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Shopping
Via Darrell Rigby of Bain Company:" ... Digital retailing is headed toward 15% to 20% of total sales globally and is already highly Profitable. But what seems like...
From Apophenia
Nancy Baym, Kate Crawford, Mary L. Gray to Join Microsoft Research
::bounce:: I am *ecstatic* to announce that Nancy Baym, Kate Crawford, and Mary L. Gray are all joining Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, MA. See Jennifer...
From Putting People First
Tapping social networks for design research recruiting, by Jan Chipchase
Jan Chipchase thinks that 80 to 90% of current recruiting for design research/ethnographic studies (excluding focus groups) that is currently placed through recruiting...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Requesting Input on Data and Informatics
The National Institutes’ of Health (NIH)
From Schneier on Security
Apple Split-Key Patent
Apple has a patent on splitting a key between a portable device and its power supply. Clever idea.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Writers Should Tweet
In ReadWriteWeb:. I could think this to be more aptly titled: Why writers who can't write otherwise should Tweet ... I tweet to support my blog posts, but should...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ivory Does a Brand Refresh
Nice Forbes article on the Back to Basics Ivory brand refresh. As I have said before, it is the first Procter brand I was closely connected to, so there is a...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Stores Thrilled to Become FIRST Sponsors!
In an exciting new partnership, Microsoft Stores across the country are teaming up with FIRST robotics teams to provide Kinect hardware and software development...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog