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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
Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world
MIT News reports on how MIT students are exploring innovative cellphone uses in the developing world. “Several startup business ventures spawned by MIT students...
From Putting People First
Augmented Reality is overblown
Chris Dannen writes in Fast Company that Augmented Reality is overblown, and doesn’t expect apps like Layar to drastically change the way we live our everyday lives...
From Putting People First
As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological
“As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological,” argues Gentry Underwood, who focuses on social media and collaborative software at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DVR Users Don't Skip
In the NYT. Some fascinating results from the set-top clickstream. Including that a surprising number (46% in 18-49) of people do not fast forward over ads. It...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 2
November 4 Markup: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will review the Cybersecurity Coordination and Awareness...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Active Wallpaper
We can use flat surfaces at home or work as a display or or changeable view. Even talked to an office environment manufacturer that was looking at embedding this...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-02
BBC NEWS | Health | Depression link to processed food "Eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression, research suggests...
From My Biased Coin
ICS Papers Announced
As pointed out many places, the paper for the (strangely named) new theory conference Innovations in Computer Science are out, with the list here and list withsurvey...
From Schneier on Security
The FBI and Wiretaps
To aid their Wall Street investigations, the FBI used DCSNet, their massive surveillance system. Prosecutors are using the FBI's massive surveillance system, DCSNet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When Customers Negotiate
Attended a most interesting talk at UC this past week on negotiation models. Readers will recall that I previously covered auction analysis here. A simplified model...
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Coin Toss Depends on Starting Point
In the Freakonomics blog: Is the common arbiter of binary decisions not so random? Short article points to resources that say it may depend on its original position...
From Computational Complexity
Report From Ramsey-Logic-Complexity Workshop
Back from RaTLoCC 2009 which is Ramsey Theory in Logic, Combinatorics, and Complexity. Here are the list of talks: here. Reverse Mathematics tries...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty Hasn't Disappeared
Professor Byron Sharp, Director, Ehrenberg-Bass InstituteUniversity of South Australia writes:FranzLast week the New York Times reported that American's loyalty...
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Augmented Reality in Virtual Worlds
IBM continues to do interesting enterprise enabling virtual world work, here with Nokia:' ... With support from IBM (NYSE:IBM) Research and Nokia Research Center...
From CERIAS Blog
Cassandra Firing GnuPG Blanks
A routine software update (a minor revision number) caused a serious problem. A number of blank messages were sent until we realized that attempts to sign messages...
From Putting People First
Implementing digital TV in Italy: the other side of the digital revolution
Italy is in the process of switching to digital TV, and the implementation is pretty much a disaster, as far as I can tell from the reactions in the region where...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Goods
Dave Knox points to a slide presentation at the recent Virtual Worlds conference on Social Gaming and virtual goods: Virtual Goods in Asia. Very useful statistics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forbes on Neuromarketing
A good overview article in Forbes on Neuromarketing. ' ... Yahoo, Hyundai, Microsoft and other marketers use EEGs and MRIs to vet commercials, packaging and product...
From The Eponymous Pickle