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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
Reengineering the Business with Analytics
Some useful thoughts from the SASCom Blog. Analytics can be applied to effectively change enterprise process.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Unveils Cross-Cutting Smart Health & Wellbeing Program
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineering a 10,000 Year Clock
In IEEE Spectrum: Was exposed to this project when it was started by Danny Hillis and Stewart Brand in 1996. The most forward look project I have ever seen. According...
From Putting People First
Transforming behaviour change
The RSA’s latest report, Transforming Behaviour Change: Beyond Nudge and Neuromania, argues for a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between our...
From Putting People First
Craftmanship
John Kolko reflects on design education and the importance of craftmanship in an article for Interactions Magazine. “Based on my experience reviewing portfolios...
From Putting People First
GEM, Nokia
Nokia releases a new phone concept – Gem – which “revolutionizes mobile design by turning the entire handset into a touchscreen”. Launched on the 25th anniversary...
From Putting People First
Smarter, better cyborgs
Instead of augmenting reality, we should make technology more aware, argues Christopher Butler in this article for Print Magazine. “Though an initial AR [Augmented...
From Putting People First
Sciences of human understanding
Dirk Knemeyer has published a call to rely on foundational science(s) to better understand users. “The preponderance of research and publications on user studies...
From Putting People First
Brief rant on the future of interaction design
Interaction designer Bret Victor has published his “brief rant on the future of interaction design“. “To me, claiming that Pictures Under Glass [as in touch screens]...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Clouds
ReadWrite Web writes about the meaning of the cloud to the typical consumer. Useful, I have had several people ask me what the 'cloud' was. It is easy to define...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the August issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
From Schneier on Security
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
It's taken me a few years, but I've come around to this buzzword. It highlights an important characteristic of a particular sort of Internet attacker. A conventional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke a Winner on Social Media
Good USA Today article on Coke's successful use of Twitter and Facebook. Includes a useful video. As I have said before, Coke is a well known brand, so can be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology and the Economy
Brian Arthur on how Technology is recreating the 21st century economy. We followed Arthur at the Santa Fe Institute when he was building interesting predictive economic...
From Computational Complexity
Making Money the (Computationally) Hard Way
Digital cash systems have come and gone but Bitcoin seems to be doing okay. By request I am giving a lecture about Bitcoin in my crypto class. Most of the material...
From My Biased Coin
Programming for Non-Programming Exercises
One of the exercises I assigned last week proved interesting: Consider n points on a circle, labeled clockwise from 0 to n-1. Initially a wolf begins at 0 and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WalMart IPhone Apps Adds Functions
How can Apps best combine in-store and online sales? WalMart has rolled out some new App functionality that addresses this. In particular emphasizing the shopping...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog