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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
Change Blindness
Interesting video demonstrating change blindness: the human brain's tendency to ignore major visual changes. The implications for security are pretty serious. ...
From Apophenia
Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook's Data in Context
A few weeks ago, Facebook's data team released a set of data addressing a simple but complex question: How Diverse is Facebook? Given my own work over the last...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality at Metaio
Some interesting thoughts in ReadWriteWeb on the status of Augmented Reality leader Metaio which has the package Junaio that I have looked at on Smartphones. They...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Sharing
Sharethis comments on the science of sharing. Some interesting, but rather self-serving statistics.
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 12/28/2009
The Nobel Laureate Versus the Graduate Student A fascinating account of the 1962 debate between John Bardeen and Brian Josephson about Josephson’s suggestion that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Machine Learning
Google Research blog on quantum machine learning. Machine learning is the essence of artificial intelligence ... make a machine that learns and you can set it loose...
From Schneier on Security
"The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information"
Good survey article by Alessandro Acquisti in IEEE Computer.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Monte Carlo Simulation
Random numbers are fun. Really they are. They are at the heart of gambling for sure but they are also a key part of what is called a Monte Carlo Simulation. These...
From Computational Complexity
2009 Complexity Year in Review
We go all the way back to January for the paper of the year, Mark Braverman's Poly-logarithmic independence fools AC0 circuits. Runners up include the Moser-Tardos...
From The Noisy Channel
Faceted Web Search?
Researchers from Microsoft say it’s very challenging. Google is trying, but there’s a long way to go. And Eric Iverson just wrote me to describe his own preliminary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenging the Tipping Point
In Mind Hacks: Looking at the work of Duncan Watts. And by implication challenging the methodology of many kinds of simulations and predictive analytics in general...
From Schneier on Security
Separating Explosives from the Detonator
Chechen terrorists did it in 2004. I said this in an interview with then TSA head Kip Hawley in 2007: I don't want to even think about how much C4 I can strap...
From The Noisy Channel
R.I.P. Modista
Long-time readers may recall my post about visual search startup Modista last November, or this guest post by one of its principals. Unfortunately, the story has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Data Does not Match Theory
Have seen this many times, especially in the realm of marketing, where people sometimes just search for data that matches the results they want. So its naturalThis...
From Putting People First
Designing for social innovation: an interview with Ezio Manzini
User experience strategist Steve Baty interviewed Ezio Manzini, Professor of Design at the Politecnico di Milano and one of the keynote speakers at Interaction...
From Putting People First
The Journal of Information Architecture
The Journal of Information Architecture, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, is now at its second issue — and all the content can be downloaded: Issue 1 (Spring...
From Putting People First
When professionals get culture shock
Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase reflects on the issue of culture shock, a condition that can even affect professionals whose livelihood depends on being able...
From Putting People First