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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 Putting People First
Book: Pervasive Information Architecture
Pervasive Information Architecture – Designing information space in ubiquitous ecologies is a book being written by Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati for Morgan Kaufmann...
From Apophenia
Whose Voice do you Hear? Gender Issues and Success
Growing up, I loved to debate. With anyone. My debating tone used to drive my mother batty because she thought I was yelling at her. Exasperated, I would often...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
From Kobe to Haiti
Today, January 17th, is the anniversary of the 1995 Kobe, Japan, earthquake which killed over 6,000 people. I am in Japan, ironically, accepting the Motohiro Kisoi...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Loyalty and Brand
Walter Riker, colleague at Procter, writes in Curious Voyager about brand loyalty being killed by the brand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Food While You Watch
Laurence Hayward, of the Venture Lab sends along a report from their newsletter about a number of new ideas that manufacture fresh food concepts in stores while...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overzealous Spam Filter Found
I just noticed that the blog spam filter has been classifying too many messages as spam and that several useful comments had been blocked. I approved the comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Underutilizes Scale
AdAge interview with ' ... Bob McDonald, CEO of Procter & Gamble, said the size of the company is not a disadvantage, as many analysts believe. "Size doesn't matter...
From The Noisy Channel
Real Time Search Is Personal
The other day, I promised in a comment thread that I’d write about what I see as real use cases for real-time search. As it happens, I’m experiencing one right...
From Schneier on Security
Security vs. Sustainability in Building Construction
Interesting: Any facility executive involved in the design of a new building would agree that security is one important goal for the new facility. These days,...
From Schneier on Security
Google vs. China
I'm not sure what I can add to this: politically motivated attacks against Gmail from China. I've previously written about hacking from China. Shishir Nagaraja...
From My Biased Coin
New TCS postdocs/jobs website at CCI
There's a new page http://intractibility.princeton.edu/jobs/ that was set up as a centralized location for advertising postdocs and jobs for theoretical computer...
From Putting People First
Information and communication technologies vital for social inclusion
The World Economic Forum today released its study on Scaling Opportunity: Information and Communications Technology for Social Inclusion, an analysis of how ICT...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 January 2010
When it rains it pours! I spent last week at FETC in Florida but kept a weather eye out for interesting things to pass on via Twitter (follow me on Twitter @AlfredTwo...
From Schneier on Security
Prison Escape Artist
Clever ruse: When he went to court for hearings, he could see the system was flawed. He would arrive on the twelfth floor in handcuffs and attached at the waist...
From Computational Complexity
Sam Roweis (1972-2010)
Sam Roweis, an NYU CS professor specializing in machine learning, took his own life last Tuesday night. Jennifer Linden and Maneesh Sahani set up a weblog to share...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Checking in to Retail SmartPhone Potential
Since my early days in retail innovation centers I have been thinking about how the inevitable success of location-aware smart phones can directly introduce the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reading and Blogging the NYT
Its inevitable. Rumors abound on the NYT going behind a pay wall. Althouse has some good comments, as a blogger, on the use of linking central news sources. You...
From Putting People First
danah boyd on why Zuckerberg is wrong to say
Ethnographer danah boyd, a Microsoft researcher, argues that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is wrong saying that ‘the age of privacy is over’. “Privacy isn’t a technological...
From The Eponymous Pickle