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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
Beware the Flaw of Averages
I see that Sam L Savage's: The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty is now out. He is a very well known teacher in the space of...
From Putting People First
Talk by anthropologist Mimi Ito in Milan
Yesterday cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito spoke on the impact of technology on teen and youth culture at the Meet The Media Guru event in Milan, Italy. The video...
From Apophenia
Thank you Nashville!
I’m just finishing up the first 10 days of my fall sprint at intensive fieldwork. I’m a long way from being about to synthesize what I’m seeing but I wanted to...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Dancing with Hundreds of Technical Women at Grace Hopper
From the Communications of ACM blog:When I tell someone about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing , I start by explaining the dance parties. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Worlds Users Exceed 1 Billion
In Readwriteweb: A remarkable milestone. Some interesting breakdowns of the data as well. I watched the early development of places like Second Life. What continues...
From Schneier on Security
My Recording Debut
Okay, so this isn't a normal blog post. It's not about security. I've been playing doumbek with a band at the Minneapolis Renaissance Festival called Brother...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Strategies for CPG
Clickz article on strategies for reaching CPG shoppers. What works, and what may not in a changing world.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Center Store Task Force
In an interesting development the formation of a task force to understand the 'center store' in grocery retail and to get to the core of it's performance: " .....
From Putting People First
Danah Boyd taking a pulse in roiling online world
The Boston Globe profiles Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd. “At the center of the broader societal debate is Boyd, whose views on key issues like online privacy...
From Schneier on Security
Me on Cyberwar
During the cyberwar debate a few months ago, I said this: If we frame this discussion as a war discussion, then what you do when there's a threat of war is you...
From Putting People First
Nokia building loyalty among the bankless
The Register reports at length on Nokia’s move into Mobile Money. “For a technology company, Mobile Money is remarkably low-tech. Only the tiniest amount of bandwidth...
From Wild WebMink
Libert
In my “state of the FOSS world” comments during the opening plenary of Open World Forum in Paris recently, I observed how important it is to remember our founding...
From Putting People First
My Twitter feed
It is always a trade-off what to put on Putting People First, and what not. I try to make the call as best as I can. Whatever doesn’t cut the chase, but I still...
From Schneier on Security
Master's Theses in Homeland Security
This is a list of master's theses from the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security, this year. Some interesting stuff in there....
From Putting People First
Data visualisation as an actionable tool in our lives
This week I watched the excellent online documentary “Journalism in the Age of Data“, which is a video report on data visualisation as a storytelling medium that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Web Format
Google has developed a new web format called WebP to replace Jpeg. Why? Because they believe that it will greatly diminish storage space used for still images...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - September 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 9)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Expresses Concern About IP Piracy Enforcement Bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee recently introduced the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act to fight piracy of intellectual property. That is an...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science