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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
Are mobile phones Africa
Whether it’s checking market prices of crops, transferring money or simply making a call, mobile phones are transforming Africa. But, asks The Guardian, could this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing the GDP of EU and US States
A most interesting comparison of the per capita GDP of US States versus EU Countries. Via economist Mark J. Perry.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sarcasm Punctuation Mark
It seems like a futile effort, but a firm has patented and now sells a sarcasm punctuation mark, hoping to profit from all of that misunderstanding in text andEsperanto...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Games and the Three Levels of Design
Continuing to read Donald Norman's Emotional Design, I am finding the three levels of design most of the book is based on to be very useful, especially when thinking...
From Schneier on Security
Fixing Intelligence Failures
President Obama, in his speech last week, rightly focused on fixing the intelligence failures that resulted in Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab being ignored, rather than...
From Putting People First
Good: the Slow Issue
Good, the collaborative magazine, has published its “Slow Issue” with perspectives on a smarter, better and slower future: “At its simplest, slow stands for a focus...
From Schneier on Security
Loretta Napoleoni on the Economics of Terrorism
Interesting TED talk: Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades -- an experience that sparked a lifelong interest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Shopper Marketing in Hands of Shopper
Joel Rubinson of ARF on Putting Marketing in the Hands of the Shopper, about Modiv's in aisle scanning system in use at Stop&Shop and being shown at NRF. Recall...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter to Test Online Store
Note also P&G's extensive use of contextual innovation centers to understand the consumer, in the WSJ: Procter & Gamble to Test Online Store to Study Buying Habits...
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 01/15/2010
Smart phones blessed in Canon David Parrott’s 3G church service “Yesterday, in the church of the City of London Corporation, he presented an updated version of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Some Thoughts On Getting The Most From Ed Tech Conferences
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From The Noisy Channel
When Is Faceted Search Appropriate?
Earlier this week, Peter Morville and Mark Burrell presented a UIE virtual seminar on “Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns For Great Online Experiences“. It...
From Schneier on Security
Ray McGovern on Intelligence Failures
Good commentary from former CIA analyst Ray McGovern: The short answer to the second sentence is: Yes, it is inevitable that "certain plots will succeed." A more...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppers Want more Interactivity
Not a surprising result, consumers want more interactivity from retailers: ' ... For example, 75 percent of those surveyed want their mobile phones to tell them...
From My Biased Coin
Letters and Rights
I generally assume students know to waive their rights to look at a letter of recommendation when they ask me to write one, but I recently ran into a student that...
From Schneier on Security
$3.2 Million Jewelry Store Theft
I've written about this sort of thing before: A robber bored a hole through the wall of jewelry shop and walked off with about 200 luxury watches worth 300 million...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Functional Food Advances
Advances in Soy protein chemistry seem to indicate increased abilty to release functional ingredients slowly. Article in FoodNavigator.
From Computational Complexity
Do Innovative papers have a hard time getting into STOC and FOCS? I ask this objectively with no ax or teeth to grind.
(This is my last post until next week Tuesday.) Many people believe the following: FOCS and STOC only take technically hard results on problems that we already...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson