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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
Richer Geolocation
In MIT Tech Review, Getting More from Location Data: Companies are working to add value to geospatial information. For those already playing in this space much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Thoughts on a Second Life
Its been over a year since I have been to the virtual world Second Life. Before that I was a user, watched in real time as IBM programmers build their own spaces...
From Putting People First
Torino tags its monuments for tourists
The Italian city of Torino just launched “The Colors of Torino“, helping tourists through Microsoft’s Color Tags at monuments and tourist attractions. If you want...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing the Uses of the Internet
Richard L. James sends along a link to a BBC treemap visualization of the use of the Internet based on Nielsen data. You can float your mouse over the chart totreemap...
From Putting People First
Guardian supplement on service design
The Guardian, one of the leading UK newspapers, has publish an eight-page supplement on service design – subtitled “Design innovation in the public and private...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Smartphone Users Want
Readwriteweb reports on Compete's recent survey of smartphone users. It turns out that what they want most are ads, coupons and location-aware promotions. See the...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cipherlopods
This makes no sense to me, even though -- I suppose -- it's a squid cryptography joke.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Science to Teach and Learn Science
Keynote address, via the CACM: Physicist Carl E. Wieman
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Bubbly the Next Twitter?
I know a few of my colleagues and clients will cringe at this, but there is a new voice-centric, mobile social networking capability taking off in India. Is it?...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Badge Value and Loyalty
From Knowledge@Wharton, building retail loyalty with carefully chosen brands:'Badge' Value: Finding and Promoting Products That Inspire Customer Loyalty Alex Panos...
From Putting People First
Experientia
Experientia has uploaded all its publicly available videos on specially created Vimeo and YouTube channels. In addition to high-def project videos, you can also...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Charles Thacker Recognized With 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award
In recognition of his work in developing the modern personal computer, Charles P. Thacker was awarded the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award. The Award, which comes with...
From Schneier on Security
More Hollow Coins
A hollowed-out U.S. nickel can hold a microSD card. Pound and euro coins are also available. I blogged about this about a year ago as well.
From Putting People First
Citizens to be at heart of European policy making
A new report published jointly today by the British, Danish and Dutch governments challenges the way European institutions make decisions and argues that smart...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BART Examines the Use of Augmented Reality
I have done some examining of the Junaio package here recently, which permits the overlay of information on top of 3D reality representations on smart phones. Lisa...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science