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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
The web means the end of forgetting
Legal scholars, technologists and cyberthinkers are wrestling with the first great existential crisis of the digital age: the impossibility of erasing your posted...
From Putting People First
The unintended consequences of Facebook
Facebook is about to celebrate its 500-millionth user, but the social media application has had wide consequences, even for those who have never signed on, writes...
From Putting People First
Coercing people into a brave new digital world
Design consultant Martyn Perks thinks that a UK government-backed campaign to get the entire UK adult population online “threatens to make cyber slaves of us all...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-21
Phase relationships in the standardization process James Gosling wrote in 1990: "standards are increasingly being viewed as competitive weapons rather than as technological...
From Schneier on Security
EU Counterterrorism Strategy
Interesting journal article evaluating the EU's counterterrorism efforts.
From Apophenia
MySpace and Facebook: How Racist Language Frames Social Media (and Why You Should Care)
(This post was written for Blogher and originally posted there.) Every time I dare to talk about race or class and MySpace & Facebook in the same breath, a public...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Posters
The first day of SIGIR 2010 ended with a monster poster session–over 100 posters to see in 2 hours in a hall without air conditioning! I managed to see a handful...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Technical Sessions
I’ve always felt that parallel conference sessions are designed to optimize for anticipated regret, and SIGIR 2010 is no exception. I decided that I’d try to attend...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Keynote
As promised, here are some highlights of the SIGIR 2010 conference thus far. Also check out the tweet stream with hash tag #sigir2010. I arrived here on Monday,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wegmans Introduces Employee Blog
Always innovative retailer Wegmans has set up a blog contributed by employees. Worth a look.
From Apophenia
Skin Whitening, Tanning, and Vaseline
Growing up as a white girl in Pennsylvania, I was taught that being tan was beautiful. My wealthier classmates would go on vacations to Florida in the winter,...
From Schneier on Security
Economic Considerations of Website Password Policies
Two interesting research papers on website password policies. "Where Do Security Policies Come From?": Abstract: We examine the password policies of 75 different...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Image Search Improves
In GigaOM: Image search in Google has improved their user interface to allow you to see many more images per search. They have a reported ten billion images accessible...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Ideas Project
Sponsored by Nokia, The ideas Project is a selection of video presentation by mostly well-known pundits in the area of communications and information tech. If they...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
What's This Educational Games Stuff All About, Anyway?
As you may know, my research focus for my PhD is educational games and augmented reality. But what is this educational games stuff all about, anyway? Do video games...
From Putting People First
Social networking and public service provision
I very much enjoyed the reflection of Lee Bryant (Headshift), following the launch of the UK Government’s Big Society initiative. In it, he argues that in the past...
From Putting People First
Why traditional intranets fail today
Oscar Berg reflects on the changing role of intranets in knowledge-intensive businesses. “These intranets need to provide flexible access to both information and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creation Spaces Exchange Tacit Knowledge
Video from HBR on the Nokia Ideas project. This was something we explicitly intended to do with the creation of innovation centers. First to read realistic contexts...
From Wild WebMink