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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 My Biased Coin
Faculty Ratios
Perhaps the most basic breakdown one can make of a college faculty is into the categories Natural Sciences / Social Sciences / Humanities. (Yes, one could naturally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Kills the Clock Radio
I have noticed this dynamic as well. I no longer use the clock radios in hotel rooms, just too messy to figure out each new one encountered. Can't trust them. So...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Multi-Language Dictionary
Largely un-publicized, the Google multi- language dictionary and word translation service. Includes basic definitions and the uses of words on the web. Very nicely...
From Putting People First
The dignity and courage of Donald Norman
There is true dignity in the continuous engagement of Donald Norman, the Nestor of the user experience community, as well as courage is his willingness to question...
From Putting People First
Bill Buxton, Martin Raymond & Anna Kirah presentations
Bill Buxton, Martin Raymond and Anna Kirah were some of the speakers at Imagine09, a conference organised by Microsoft Advertising on 28 October in London. Living...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-12-05
The Software Freedom Law Center Submits an Opinion on the Oracle/Sun Merger to the EC The detailed letter linked from this news...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fedex and SenseAware
The internet of things is a decade old concept that suggests all things can ultimately be tracked, understood and analyzed in their physical and temporal spaces...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anchoring Irrational Decisions
On influencing subsequent decisions:Professor Ariely describes some experiments which demonstrated something he calls
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Google Books Narrows its Scope in Proposed Amended Settlement
The Google Books project, where the company scans books, indexes them, and makes either snippets, selections, or the whole work available online, has a long legal...
From My Biased Coin
Retirement
No, not for me. But Harvard has announced its plans to encourage faculty to retire. I won't call it an "early retirement" package, since it is for people over...
From Wild WebMink
? Stuff That Matters
Link posting has been offline for a few days while I have been fighting with delicious & Roller trying to work out why they wouldn't make nice. In the end I created...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Job ad: Research Chair in Software and Knowledge Engineering
The University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) is looking for candidates to fill a level 2 (junior) Canada Research Chair in Software and Knowledge Engineering. You...
From Computational Complexity
The Probability of P=NP
Dean Foster asked me for a probability that P=NP. Now P=NP is not a probabilistic event, either P=NP or P?NP (if it's independent it's still equal or unequal in...
From Putting People First
Designing the Intel Reader
In a long article, the people in charge of the Intel Reader discuss the entire user-centred process of designing a new device for the blind or visually impaired...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source in Healthcare
Recently I mentioned a study that said that IT provided few savings in healthcare. Here is a post on a site caled HealthtechTopia: 25 Open Source Software Projects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Zero's Facial Matching
A fun little application from Coke Zero, celebrating its similarity to regular Coke, will find people in via Faceback that look similar to you.
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Analytics Features
I am just catching up in the newly announced Google Analytics Features, now available to all users. There will be explanatory webinars next week. Although there...
From Computer Science Teachers Association