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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
Berners-Lee Building Web of Data
Intriguing and a natural expansion on the notion of a semantic web, plus looking at the infrastructure required to deliver it. In ReadWriteWeb: Inventor of the'...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
So, you know what
Most researchers are convinced that their current work is important. Otherwise, they wouldn’t do it. Yet, few of them work on obviously important things like curing...
From Putting People First
The future of health care is social
Too many of us are too busy to be healthy–not because we lack awareness. It’s finding the time to do it that’s the problem. In an age of 24/7 connectivity, time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Opens e-Store Consumer Lab
I mentioned this some time ago, here is more. Via Richard L. James. Procter has run physical store 'sand boxes' of this type for a long time, it is long overdue...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 22
March 23 Hearing: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on teh National Institute of Standards...
From Schneier on Security
Even More on the al-Mabhouh Assassination
This, from a former CIA chief of station: The point is that in this day and time, with ubiquitous surveillance cameras, the ability to comprehensively analysearticle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Building Distinctive Brand Assets
Via Byron Sharp:Understanding, Identifying and Building Distinctive Brand AssetsThis post is part of a continuing series of guest posts. Jenni Romaniuk is an Associate...
From Wild WebMink
? The Next Act(a)
The broad threats of ACTA Very useful summary indeed, although it lacks a section on the impact on software freedom (which I believe to be significant). Raed this...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 March 2010
What a week. Very busy with several speaking engagements including a set of hands on labs with high school students at the University of New Hampshire Tech Daysimple...
From Putting People First
Can design save management?
Although design and design thinking are having a positive impact on management practice and education, Youngjin Yoo, an associate professor at Temple University...
From Putting People First
Participatory systems, moving beyond 20th Century institutions
If the 20th century was the era of the global institution–the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the multinational corporation–then the 21st century...
From Wild WebMink
Blog Moved - Final Reminder
A final reminder that I've left Sun and this blog has now moved to Wild Webmink where you will be most welcome to join me from now on.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simpler Strategy
In Fastcompany: How do you make business strategy easier to understand? Have seen this happen a number of times. Then strategy has to catch up with understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Everything a Game?
Jerry Michalski has an upcoming conference call talk on serious aspects of games, Monday. March 22, 2010, 10:30 PDT, 1:30 EDT, Dial-in: 1-270-400-1500, AccessMore...
From Wild WebMink
? Music Picks, Probably Free
Goldfrapp, Bonobo, Inlets and a bunch of world music.
From Putting People First
Augmented reality: it
Charles Arthur investigates in The Observer [Sunday edition of The Guardian] how the ways in which we watch sport, read magazines and do business with each other...
From Putting People First
A conversation with Microsoft
Microsoft’s Channel 9 conducted a half hour video interview with Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher for Microsoft Research and Albert Shum, Director of Mobile Experience...
From Computational Complexity
Notes to My Dad
My father Paul Fortnow passed away thirty years ago today. Five years ago I wrote about some of the lessons I learned from him. Suppose I could go contact him back...
From The Noisy Channel