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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
Geolocation Apocalypse?
The AdAge article is provocatively overblown, but the warnings are worth understanding. Geolocation is one of those tech things that are relatively easy with...
From Computational Complexity
Traveling Too Much
Three recent happenings made me think about the amount I travel.I hit the 50K club (Premier Executive) in United for the first time last year. At first I was excited...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-03-30
Tech coalition pushes rewrite of online privacy law This is a welcome development, one we need to see replicated in other subject areas and other countries. Most...
From Schneier on Security
Jeremy Clarkson on Security Guards
Nice essay: Of course, we know why he's really there. He's really there so that if the bridge is destroyed by terrorists, the authorities can appear on the television...
From The Noisy Channel
CFP: HCIR 2010
The 4th Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) will be held in conjunction with the IIiX 2010 conference in New Brunswick...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Playing Video Games Will Not Get You a Job But Creating One Might
Last week I had a chance to hear Larry Hryb (AKA Major Nelson) of the Xbox Live team talk to a group of college students at Microsoft
From Putting People First
Shoppers choose green products to improve social status
Consumers are willing to sacrifice performance for perceived social status from green products, says the study Going Green to Be Seen: Status, Reputation, and Conspicuous...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The paperless campus: still a long way to go
Today I spent money from a research grant.
From The Eponymous Pickle
What's Behind Procter's Strong Quarter
A very good and relatively detailed article. The short answer: Innovation... What
From Schneier on Security
Master Thief
The amazing story of Gerald Blanchard. Thorough as ever, Blanchard had spent many previous nights infiltrating the bank to do recon or to tamper with the locks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Official Google CPG Blog on the ZMOT
Brought to my attention by Dave Knox. (His excellent blog) The Google CPG Blog On the Zero moment of truth. One thing I do note is that although they imply they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Del Monte and Social Media ROI
There always has to be some measure that people will agree to. Being a quant I like the numbers. Here a good view: ' ... Doug Chavez, head of digital marketing...
From Putting People First
Search Patterns: an Interview With Peter Morville
Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender recently released their brand new book “Search Patterns: Design for Discovery“. It’s an excellent, must-read book for the user...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where 2.0, The Next Wave of AR
A very good piece on: The Next Wave of AR: Exploring Social Augmented Experiences at Where 2.0. It describes upcoming work at the forthcoming conference. My...
From Computational Complexity
Book Review Column AND request for reviews
A while back I posted a list of books that I need reviews for my column in SIGACT NEWS. This was legitimate--- I really did want reviewers--- but it was also an...
From Putting People First
The urban age
How cities became our greatest design challenge yet. Justin McGuirk, the editor of icon, the UK’s leading architecture & design magazine, argues in The Guardian...
From Schneier on Security
Identifying People by their Bacteria
A potential new forensic: To determine how similar a person's fingertip bacteria are to bacteria left on computer keys, the team took swabs from three computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Will Rule
Nielsen says that although only about 21% of phones today are smart, it will be 'most' by 2011, and 35% in the US by the end of 2010. Fast changes. This could make...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson