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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
Izmo Summer School 2011
Izmo, the Italian association focused on participatory process, local development, architecture, design and ICT, organizes an International Summer School in Torino...
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New RSA Journal out
The Summer 2011 edition of the RSA Journal explores the relationship between business and social change. Brand values As the social, political and commercial spheres...
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Smartphones could mean end of web
The proliferation of powerful mobile phones could see control of the internet pass into the hands of corporations, positions John Naughton in The Observer today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
G+ Complete Guide
Mashable has what they call a complete Guide to G+. Can't be completely true since what G+ is continues to evolve. Yet it is a good introduction to the parts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
T Commerce Interfaces
Thought about this while slipping through Flipboard on an iPad. A completely configurable magazine and Reader that emphasizes images. Very addictive. I have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do We Need to be More Social?
Is Microsoft working on a social networking project. Do we need more social? I guess we can see these efforts as competition for our social connections and someone...
From Putting People First
Exploring the shift In search behaviors with Microsoft
Jacquelyn Krones, a Senior Product Manager from Microsoft, is in charge of an ongoing ethnographic research project on understanding search behavior.
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User experience design principles
During the conference “An Event Apart” (AEA) in Boston, UX designer Whitney Hess gave a talk entitled “Create design principles and use them to establish a philosophy...
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Interaction designers convene in Florence
Greg Williams reports in Wired UK on the recent Frontiers of Interaction conference in Florence, Italy. “Few people need an excuse to spend time in Florence, so...
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The difference (and relationship) between usability and user experience
In a blog post, Justin Mifsud discuss the terms usability and user experience, highlighting their differences and more importantly the relationship that exists...
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How technology makes us better social beings
Sociologist Keith Hampton (University of Pennsylvania) believes technology and social networking affect our lives in some very positive ways
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Study finds that memory works differently in the age of Google
The rise of Internet search engines like Google has changed the way our brain remembers information, according to research by Columbia University psychologist Betsy...
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Technology and moral panic
Why is it that some technologies cause moral panic and others don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caricatures and Facial Recognition
The brain is a powerful facial recognition machine. It is only recently we have figured out how to systematize to a degree this kind of analysis using image recognition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and the Brain
Much this week about how Google and web may be changing the way the brain operates. Here an article in Rough Type, with a good view of the debate, with an expected...
From Schneier on Security
Interview in Infosecurity Magazine
I think I gave this interview at the RSA Conference in February.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Finding One Man in 60 Million Square Miles
Search is a hard problem in computing, but it’s a critical problem in real life, as friends of computer scientist Jim Gray found out when he vanished at sea. In...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Stats
A large list of social media stats to Kickstart your slidedeck. Intriguing, though I always worry about the context of such a large and varied assortment.
From Computational Complexity