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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
SAS Predictive Analytics
SAS has rolled out predictive analytics for business users. " ... a new toolset aimed at giving business users the ability to work with predictive analytics....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Trials Drive Through Supermarket
Long time readers of this blog will remember that we examined this topic sometime ago and talked to the group building a system in the US: Autocart. Now Tesco announces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MHealth Summit
Upcoming, the summit on Mobile health, it turns out that Mobile health means two different things:" ... The National Institutes of Health to Lead 2 of 7 Concurrent...
From Schneier on Security
Successful Attack Against a Quantum Cryptography System
Clever: Quantum cryptography is often touted as being perfectly secure. It is based on the principle that you cannot make measurements of a quantum system without...
From Putting People First
Why privacy is not dead
The way privacy is encoded into software doesn’t match the way we handle it in real life, writes Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd in the Technology Review. “Each...
From Putting People First
A cyber-house divided
Online as much as in the real world, people bunch together in mutually suspicious groups
From The Eponymous Pickle
Outdoor Augmented Reality
On augmented reality in the outdoors. Makes sense to use it to understand your broader environment. In ReadWriteWeb: " ... How many times have you been driving...
From Schneier on Security
Cyber-Offence is the New Cyber-Defense
This is beyond stupid: The Pentagon is contemplating an aggressive approach to defending its computer systems that includes preemptive actions such as knocking...
From Putting People First
Attention: This revolution will NOT be televised
Adrian Chan of Gravity 7 and Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist at Amazon.com and lecturer at Stanford and UC Berkeley, together wrote an article on how best...
From Putting People First
Stowe Boyd
Stowe Boyd went to BlogTalk in Galway, Ireland and came back inspired: sociality, he says, has turned out to be the most interesting thing to emerge from the past...
From Putting People First
Basque PhD thesis on relationship of youth today with new technologies
A few days ago sociologist Ms Luc
From Putting People First
Mobile devices and privacy
Should we focus on changing the behaviour of people OR changing the behaviour of devices? That is the key question in article by Ajit Jaokar on his blog Open Gardens...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Dr. James Parrish
Dr. James Parrish is on the faculty at the University of Arkansas Little Rock and has recently started a blog. (James Parrish blog) It looks like he will be blogging...
From Putting People First
How mobile devices could lead to more city living
People pushing sustainability don’t tend to be the same types who love our digital-crazed iWorld. And that’s a problem because it means they don’t push one of the...
From Putting People First
The library user experience: services before content
Libraries will have to build a new foundation if they are to recover from these economic hard times
From Putting People First
To win over users, gadgets have to be touchable
Researchers say that touch screens are the start of a trend to make computers more open to human gestures, argues the New York Times. “Device makers in a post-iPhone...
From Putting People First
Interactions magazine on human nuances
The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on the nuances of what makes us human, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko, and more in particular “about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Myers-Briggs Skeptically Viewed
In my years at the big enterprise I took the Myers-Briggs test at least a half dozen times. The results always interesting, largely self-affirming. I always had...
From The Eponymous Pickle