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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
It pays to be useful
In this review of the book 50 Ways to Make Google Love Your Website, published by The Hindu, the author emphasises very strongly the importance of usefulness. “Create...
From Putting People First
Why web tracking isn
Companies spend so much money on free services because of online advertising that trades in personal information. If Web users supply less information, the Web...
From Putting People First
Finding happiness while spending less
Stephanie Rosenbloom writes in the New York Times on what will make us happy. “The practices that consumers have adopted in response to the economic crisis ultimately...
From Putting People First
The dirtiest word in UX: complexity
In an article for UX Mag designer Francisco Inchauste examines some of the many faces of complexity and explores the balance we need to find for successful solutions...
From Putting People First
Information seeking behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students
Emerging findings from the first annual report of a major three-year study into the information seeking behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students show that there...
From Putting People First
The Internet Generation prefers the real world
They may have been dubbed the “Internet generation,” but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the...
From My Biased Coin
RATS roundup
I didn't see every talk (my brother lives in the area, so I took a break to see family) but I did have a fun day at RATS. There was a brief introduction by Chris...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FM Radios Mandatory on Cells?
The buzz is out that there may be US laws enacted that require an FM receiver on ever cellphone. Essentially another subsidization of an industry, the broadcasting...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid
Who knew? "Hulse was shooting with burst mode on his camera, so I know exactly what the interval is between the frames and I can calculate velocity of squid flying...
From My Biased Coin
MonkeyBusiness : Some Resolution
Wow. After days of various speculation and reports from multiple new sources, Dean (Mike) Smith of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made an announcement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Peter's Slides
Sort of a Friday's assortment of things for contemplation. Tom Peters shares some of the slides he uses for presentations. Some interesting, some confusing, some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Software for Digital Cameras
Open source software development for digital cameras. Great direction." ... "My hope is that this will shift the camera industry," says Stanford's Marc Levoy,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Railfax Data
A good example of using Tableau systems online, by Drew Robertson Summary of Rail Freight Traffic from Atlantic Systems Inc.Data through July 31, 2010 -- 30 W...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Grace Hopper How-To's
The Online Communities Committee for this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing has been working to bring you a series of how-to's that are intended...
From Computational Complexity
NSF Updates
Many changes at the National Science Foundation both in programs and personnel. Some highlights of upcoming CISE programs. Expeditions is moving to an 18-month...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-08-20
Digital Bang: Sub Pop's Amazon Sampler A rare Amazon UK free MP3 sampler (people located outside the UK need not even try, Amazon UK uses an IP whitelist). This...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Shortening the Time To Fun
Recently my friend and co-worker Dan Waters was giving a presentation about XNA Game Studio as a development platform for the new Windows Phone 7s. One of the benefits...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Future Friendly
Press Release: P&G Future Friendly Joins National Geographic Society, National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo WILD to Launch Interactive School Conservation Program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A First Look at Facebook Places
I downloaded the new Facebook IPhone App that includes the Places locational capability. It took about 24 hours before Places was implemented 'for my area'. It...
From The Eponymous Pickle