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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 Schneier on Security
German TV on the Failure of Full-Body Scanners
The video is worth watching, even if you don't speak German. The scanner caught a subject's cell phone and Swiss Army knife -- and the microphone he was wearing...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Supports Bill to Expand FCC Technical Capacity
USACM has sent Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) a letter of support for her bill to expand the technical advising capacity of the Federal Communications Commission...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earthquake Data Visualized
Using Tableau dashboards: 'The Pan American Health Organization published an interactive dashboard showing the location of last week
From The Eponymous Pickle
Printing Food
In-store food manufacture has been mentioned here a number of times. Here is another related research example, the MIT Cornucopia Food Printer Project, recently...
From Putting People First
Front book vs back book pricing: a service design challenge
Nick Marsh of EMC Conchango reflects on the conundrum of ‘front book’ vs ‘back book’ pricing, and the implications for service design. “This is a great example...
From Putting People First
Upcoming service design conference in Sweden
One of the projects funded by the Danish programme for user-driven innovation (English summary) is DESINOVA (see also this earlier post). DESINOVA
From Wild WebMink
RIP
The news is in that the EU has finally approved Oracle's purchase of Sun, and while there are some more hurdles to cross I think James' response is very fitting...
From Computational Complexity
Job Postings
Two sites to look for jobs at: Lance Fortnow set up this blog that collects theory annoucments including jobs: here Boaz Barak Obama, in an effort to create...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making a Heatmap
A good piece on constructing your own Heatmap in Flowingdata. Heatmaps are a way to visualize and quickly scan the values and fixed time relationships of many variables...
From Schneier on Security
ATM Skimmer
Neat pictures. I would never have noticed it, which is precisely the point.
From Putting People First
Urban sensing via mobile phones, an ARUP project
Arup Australasia has published a three-part technical overview on its research blog of its ‘urban sensing via mobile phones’ project. The research project, in collaboration...
From Putting People First
FT on cultural differences in Chinese internet use
Western companies are struggling to bridge the growing gap created by the evolution of a cyberspace with Chinese characteristics. Kathrin Hille explains some of...
From Putting People First
Report: Booting up mobile health
Mobile health is emerging at the intersection of dynamic changes in mobility patterns, health care delivery, and new mobile technologies and networks. New technologies...
From Putting People First
Articles on Danish design research
The Danish Centre for Design Research (DCDR) is an umbrella organisation under the Danish Ministry of Culture for the design research that takes place at the Aarhus...
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Nash Documentary
Always interesting Mind Hacks points to a recording of the PBS documentary on game theorist John Nash. Much more informative than the Hollywoodized Beautiful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsico Optimizes Trade Promotions
In Consumer Goods Technology: Integrated with the back office, CAS 8 is expected to provide a comprehensive view of account and channel performance...
From Schneier on Security
Wrasse Punish Cheaters
Interesting: The bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) operates an underwater health spa for larger fish. It advertises its services with bright colours...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lessons from a Happiness Machine
An article about Coke's new Happiness Machine viral video made me think further about the dynamics of engaging shoppers in the store. Its the vending machine whimsically...
From Computational Complexity