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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
P&G Shaping the Store with Virtual Reality
In CGT, an excellent and fairly detailed article on Procter & Gamble's development of the virtual store concept within it's innovation centers. The first time...
From My Biased Coin
Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop
I'm just off a plane coming home from the Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop at Stanford. It went really well, and I really enjoyed it.I think a variety of things...
From Wild WebMink
Open Core MySQL? Contributor Agreements!
Oracle has finally done what the business management at MySQL had been asymptotically approaching for years. It’s taking MySQL open core. It’s interesting to read...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Enterprise and the Network: DemandTec
I had an interesting conversation with DemandTec a few weeks ago about how they have constructed a network to help retail and manufacturing companies collaborate...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
LIVE Soon: Congressional Hearing on the NITRD Program
At 2pm EDT today, the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education will convene a hearing about the Federal government’s Networking...
From Putting People First
BBC Viewpoint: Anthropology meets technology
Intel’s corporate anthropologist Genevieve Bell has written an elegant introductory article for the BBC site on the role of anthropology in the corporation – particularly...
From Putting People First
Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?
Hivos (The Netherlands) and the Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth,...
From Computational Complexity
Where do theorems go to die?
(Joint post by Bill Gasarch and Daniel Apon) Recently I (Daniel) reviewed Dexter Kozen's Theory of Computation (it was AWESOME). You can find the review here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle Books Available from Libraries
Amazon has launched a Kindle book borrowing service from over 11,000 libraries. You don't need a physical Kindle, only a free App for your device and an AmazonPress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waitrose CrowdSources With its Shoppers
From IdeaConnection: The UK retailer Waitrose is using crowd sourcing techniques with its customers to develop new products. We will continue to see more of "...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Jane McGonigal: Reality is Broken
Jane McGonigal thinks reality is broken. Why else would so many of us escape it to play hours and hours of video games? But among all the media hype about theReality...
From Schneier on Security
Shifting Risk Instead of Reducing Risk
Risks of teen driving: For more than a decade, California and other states have kept their newest teen drivers on a tight leash, restricting the hours when they...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Launching a New Resource for CS Undergraduates
We’re launching something brand new today! The Computing Community Consortium’s Research Community & Student Outreach Subcommittee is pleased to announce a unique...
From Putting People First
Green markets must be created by you
Tuuli Kaskinen and Roope Mokka, researchers at Demos Helsinki, argue in an essay that we need more than mere sustainable versions of everyday products: we need...
From Putting People First
Designing social tools around user interests
The key to designing social media well lies in designing it for a user
From The Eponymous Pickle
Employee Segmentation
Bain & Company writes about Employee Segmentation: Using employee segmentation to bring out the best in your workforce. I had never thought about segmenting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandwashed Published
Martin Lindstrom's new book: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate our Minds and Persuade us to Buy is now available. See this press release for much...
From Putting People First
The Language of Interfaces
Des Traynor recently spoke at the Content Strategy Forum in London about the importance of which words used in an interface. The difference between Facebook’s Like...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Emerging Knowledge Is a Private Business
Collaboration is often encouraged in science: it is viewed as an intrinsically good thing. Yet there are downsides to collaboration. The most obvious downside is...
From The Eponymous Pickle