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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
? Status.Net Finds Twitter
ABC “Unofficially” Partners with Twitter-Alternative StatusNet The flexibility and open source code of Status.Net make it a natural vehicle for internal/private...
From Schneier on Security
Putting Unique Codes on Objects to Detect Counterfeiting
This will help some. At least two rival systems plan to put unique codes on packages containing antimalarials and other medications. Buyers will be able to text...
From Putting People First
Bruce Sterling interview by Rhys Hughes
Last week, La Stampa newspaper of Turin, Italy published an interview with Bruce Sterling, conducted by Welsh writer and essayist Rhys Hughes. The complete English...
From Putting People First
Bruce Sterling interview by Rhys Hughes
Last week, La Stampa newspaper of Turin, Italy published an interview with Bruce Sterling, conducted by Welsh writer and essayist Rhys Hughes. The complete English...
From Putting People First
Is social media catalyzing an offline sharing economy?
The results of Latitude Research and Shareable Magazine‘s The New Sharing Economy study released today indicate that online sharing does indeed seem to encourage...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eyeballs Out is now Available!
Donna Sturgess' book is now out ... Very nicely done. Excellent reviews on Amazon. An intriguing, great read. Novel look at making your business thrive. From...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Notes on the Hopper K-12 Town Hall
For the second year in a row, the Grace Hopper Conference included a Town Hall meeting on K-12 CS education, bringing together K-12 teachers with people from industry...
From Wild WebMink
? Awe
Offrez moi votre silence by Thierry Dreyfus, photo by y.caradec. The huge public art event in Paris this weekend – Nuit Blanche – included some works on an absolutely...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text on Social Media
I see that former colleague Krista Neher, of Boot Camp Digital, is writing a textbook on social media. See more about her report on the process.
From Wild WebMink
? Rehost And Carry On
I spent the last two days in Brussels with many of the key participants
From The Eponymous Pickle
Humanoid Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum: The rise of the humanoid robotics. This article has lots of links and examples of the humanoid robotic. Pictures, often frightening, as well....
From Putting People First
Depth of field: Film in design research
Timo Arnall and Einar Sneve Martinussen have published the article “Depth of field: discursive design research through film,” which discusses the role of film in...
From Putting People First
What is user experience design? Overview, tools and resources
Jacob Gube has published a guide on Smashing Magazine that aims to familiarize us with the professional discipline of UX design in the context of Web-based systems...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
NCWIT at Grace Hopper: Recruiting and Retaining Women
From the Communications of ACM blog:Research scientists Lecia Barker and Joanne Cohoon from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) gaveGrace...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connected Home Store
Amazon has opened a connected home store. This is a particularly good idea. It brings to mind work we did in setting up innovation center 'future homes'. It...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Offers Media Era Green Stamps
A novel and interesting approach, but does it engage to purchase?In Adage: P&G Program Will Offer Social-Media-Era 'Green Stamps'Deal With RecycleBank Gives Reward...
From Computational Complexity
Partha Niyogi (1967-2010)
University of Chicago Computer Science and Statistics Professor Partha Niyogi passed away on Friday after a battle with brain cancer. Partha worked in machine...
From Schneier on Security
Analyzing CAPTCHAs
New research: "Attacks and Design of Image Recognition CAPTCHAs." Abstract. We systematically study the design of image recognition CAPTCHAs (IRCs) in this paper...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson