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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 Wild WebMink
? Document Foundation Member
Having applied for membership as soon as the process was announced, I’m honoured to have been accepted today as a Member of The Document Foundation. Having been...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Don't Miss Your Opportunity to Decide CSTA's Future
The 2011 CSTA election is drawing to a close. As you are hopefully aware, this year's election has been run entirely online, providing unprecedented convenience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
People are Walking Slower Now
In the WSJ, studies indicate we walk slower now. Implications for the modeling of retail spaces? " ... Pedestrians need more time, too. For years, traffic lights...
From CERIAS Blog
A Cautionary Incident
Recently, Amazon's cloud service failed for several customers, and has not come back fully for well over 24 hours. As of the time I write this, Amazon has not commented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Tests Online Grocery Delivery
It has been rumored for some time, now the test is to proceed in California.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Weapons of Mass Assignment
In CACM: A Technical article, with implications for privacy-aware open source development: Weapons of Mass AssigmentA Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification of Social Media
Scott Monty, the head of social media for Ford Motor Company, discusses the gamification of social media. Gamification of business processes is a favorite topic...
From Putting People First
Behaviour more significant than opinion when it comes to service design
Behaviour change techniques should be used to develop public services with citizens’ motivations at the heart of their design, says a leading [UK] thinktank. A...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain-Computer Interfaces
An article and video showing an example of brain computer interfaces for communications and control. " .... Brain activity produces electrical signals detectable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter & Gamble Uses Pepto Bismol Social Media
A good and detailed case study of the use of Cinco de Mayo festival and a viral YouTube App to promote a consumer packaged goods video. Good example of how big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Links on Ubiquitous Sensors
Some interesting links on ubiquitous sensors in Techdirt that attracted by attention. Some more useful than others, but worth exploring. It is about gathering...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Prints
Okay, this is a little weird: This year's Earth Day will again include the celebrated "squid printing" activity with two big, beautiful Pacific Humboldt squidagain...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Seeking SI2 Proposals
The NSF’s CISE Directorate, in partnership with the Office of Cyberinfrastructure and other directorates at the Foundation, has announced a call for Software Infrastructure...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Will Rising Enrollments Stifle Partnerships?
Mark Guzdial's recent blog contained an interesting article from Eric Roberts: https://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/guest-post-eric-roberts-on-the-dangers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Networking for Business Collaboration?
For informal communication and alerting, yes, but for ongoing collaboration? I agree, not in its current form. In Ecommerce Times: Is 'Social' Business Collaboration...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What Can AI Offer to Biologically Inspired Sustainable Design?
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Ashok Goel, Associate Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the School of Interactive Computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Opinion Stats Done Wrong
A good post in the ACM blog about how opinion statistics are often done wrong. I have seen similar things done in the enterprise. Well worth understanding. The...
From Putting People First
Dagstuhl UX white paper
Thirty user experience (UX) researchers and practitioners participated in a three day seminar in Dagstuhl in order to bring clarity to the concept of user experience...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Ten things Computer Science Tells us About Bureaucrats
Originally, the term computer applied to human beings. These days, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish reliably machines from human beings: we require ever...
From Wild WebMink