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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
Danah Boyd and Sherry Turkle video interviews
Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research, and Sherry Turkle, MIT Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, were interviewed...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Cognition All Around Me
Today was the last day of classes for Computers and Cognition, a course that's inspired a couple of posts here, and that I signed up for, for credit, even though...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals from Anti-Social Users
In the Noisy Channel, as mostly a consumer of search technology I have to worry about the bias of search, major and minor, my own needs ... sometimes casual sometimes...
From Schneier on Security
Sprint Provides U.S. Law Enforcement with Cell Phone Customer Location Data
Wired summarizes research by Christopher Soghoian: Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between...
From My Biased Coin
Tight Thresholds for Cuckoo Hashing via XORSAT
As I promised sometime back, we now have a paper (up on the arxiv) giving the thresholds for cuckoo hashing, a problem that had been open and was part of my survey...
From The Noisy Channel
Search User Interfaces and Data Quality
One of the many things I’ve enjoyed in my first few weeks of working at Google is the opportunity to talk with many people who care about user interfaces and think...
From Computational Complexity
Congrads to new ACM fellows
Congrads to ALL of the ACM Fellows which were annouced here. There are several theorists among them. I could try to list them or count them; however, the term...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Advertising Works
From Steve Genco of Lucid Systems: ' .... Derren Brown is a British
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Report on the Discovery and Innovation in Health IT Workshop
The CCC co-sponsored and co-organized the Discovery and Innovation in Health IT Workshop in San Francisco on October 29 and 30, 2009 (http://www.cra.org/ccc/healthit...
From Computational Complexity
17x17: Comments on your comments
One of the comments on my last post, the 17x17 post, inquired if I am also interested in the other unknown grids (17x18, 18x18, 21x10, 21x11, 21x12, 22x10). I AM...
From Putting People First
Smart tools to reduce our impact on the environment
The latest issue of UPA’s UX Magazine is devoted to sustainable design, and one of the articles is by Experientia. In their contribution, Experientia collaborators...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executive Decisions: Goals and Metrics
In InformationWeek, good article and case study:" ... The terms "scorecard" and "dashboard" are often used interchangeably, but there's an important distinction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Innovation Marches on
Lots of interesting details in this report:Booz & Company's 2009 edition of the Global Innovation 1000 report finds large R&D spenders are keeping the pace when...
From Schneier on Security
The Security Implications of Windows Volume Shadow Copy
It can be impossible to securely delete a file: What are the security implications of Volume Shadow Copy? Suppose you decide to protect one of your documents...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Anthropologist Finds Worldwide Traits
An article in the Cincinnati Enquirer on the work of Andrew Manning, P&G anthropologist. P&G finds worldwide consumers share traits.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Suggesting Alternative Spending
Not surprising, but some ot the details are interesting:Suggesting Alternative Ways to Spend Affects Consumers' Purchase Decisions ' ... It
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computer Science in a Conceptual Age
Intriguing piece in CACM on how the game industry is requiring more skilled programmers that in the past would have gone to industrial research labs. I would also...
From Schneier on Security
Fingerprinting RFID Chips
This research centers on looking at the radio characteristics of individual RFID chips and creating a "fingerprint." It makes sense; fingerprinting individual...
From Putting People First
Our misguided focus on brand and user experience
If there is a future for designers and marketers in big business, it lies not in brand, nor in
From Computational Complexity