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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 May 2010
I have quite an eclectic mix of links this week. Some career information, some Windows Phone programming links, Internet safety, school IT information and more....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stengthening Brand America
Edward Burghard, Retired Harley Procter Marketer, Procter & Gamble, has made me aware of the Strengthening Brand America Project. It is focused on catalyzing...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Quiet Period for This Blog
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From Putting People First
UX reflections in UX Magazine
UX Magazine keeps to its high standards with these three well written contributions: Curators of the Real-Time Web: Distilling the chatter to relevant, actionable...
From Putting People First
Why it
Is there an alternative to the seemingly inevitable cuts to public services? Hilary Cottam of Participle poses the question. “The scale of the challenge to our...
From Putting People First
Danah Boyd and the Facebook privacy discussion
Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd doesn’t need much introduction as her outspoken and well-developed analysis is frequently quoted on this blog. Two long articles...
From Putting People First
The trust economy: A world of P2P money-lending
Wired UK has published a long article on P2P money-lending in its June issue: The article devotes particular attention to Kiva.org, a San Francisco-based peer-to...
From Putting People First
Can business analysts become UX designers?
Mike Gualtieri and Mary Gerush of Forrester Research have just published a paper entitled Business Analysts: Seize the opportunity to deliver compelling user experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Soft Reliability
The concept of soft reliability came up again in a recent conversation. Had not brought it up here for more that a year. Good overview site here. If anyone has...
From Putting People First
Researchers study behavior in social networks
Research scientists Cameron Marlow (Facebook Inc.) and D.J. Patil (LinkedIn Corp.) have access to the interactions of groups of people that outnumber populations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faceted Search in Linkedin
I have always thought that Linkedin had a messy user interface. It especially confuses new users, who I heard from in the enterprise. Just read of some changesMore...
From Putting People First
The reality of social media
Adrian Chan has written a thoughtful post about “teasing apart the objective and subjective dimensions of social media, to examine what
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Healing Software
From CACM on the idea of self-healing software. Mention of some IBM research in this area. Several years ago I went to a meeting on complexity modeling at IBM...
From My Biased Coin
Robobees Redux
While I intentionally try to avoid the political on this blog, I did make an exception previously when I heard that the Harvard Robobees project had made #1 onthe...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-16
Met Office: Five Day Volcanic Ash Charts Volcano forecasts have arrived. From the looks of these charts it's touch-and-go whether I will be able to fly home on...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Computing Community Consortium At Three
The Computing Community Consortium was launched three years ago
From The Noisy Channel
People You May Know
I was just looking at LinkedIn and found myself pleasantly surprised by a minor UI improvement in the “People You May Know” widget: as you delete people you don’t...
From Apophenia
Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated
From day one, Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to become a utility. He succeeded. Facebook is now a utility. The problem with utilities is that they get regulated...
From The Noisy Channel