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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 Wild WebMink
? Sometimes the Improbable is the Answer
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers A bit of apocalyptic sci-fi, but no less plausible than the other scenarios.Sun...
From Schneier on Security
Stabbing People with Stuff You Can Get Through Airport Security
"Use of a pig model to demonstrate vulnerability of major neck vessels to inflicted trauma from common household items," from the American Journal of Forensic Medical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Sensing
Introduction of attachable NFC/RFID reader for the IPhone. Yet another smart phone sensing example. And speculation that next generation IPhones will include NFC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Verizon Hub
A wireless VOIP Hub phone.Have now seen a number of ads for the Verizon Hub phone. It has now been around for a while. A phone that provides central family functionality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Impact
Good piece on SNCR research on social media and decision making. The Post emphasises the professional use and collaboration using social media. Some useful statistics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Takeover
In Foresight: A view of the different levels of intelligence that would be required to take over from the intelligence of humans. Our own exploration of AI was...
From Schneier on Security
How Smart are Islamic Terrorists?
Organizational Learning and Islamic Militancy (May 2009) was written by Michael Kenney for the U.S. Department of Justice. It's long: 146 pages. From the executive...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CS Unplugged: Image Representation and Searching Algorithms
When I did some computer science outreach in the summer for the Girls @ Virtual Ventures camp, I promised them that if they came back for the weekend clubs in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Global Social Media Push
In AdAge: Behind Coca-Cola's Biggest Social-Media Push YetHow Expedition 206's Global Search for Happiness Came Together ... Coca-Cola is gearing up for its largest...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Videos
As I tweeted yesterday, the videos of talks from the 2009 FOCS conference are now online. Thanks to FOCS PC chair Daniel Spielman and Georgia Tech's ARC Centercollected...
From My Biased Coin
Job Advice?
Not for me, thank goodness. A very talented graduating senior (who may or may not be Harvard...) has obtained a number of job offers, and asked me if I had any...
From Putting People First
Report on Service Design Network conference 2009
Lucy Kimbell, who is a Clark Fellow in Design Leadership at Sa
From Putting People First
Book: Prototyping, a practitioner
Prototyping A Practitioner’s Guide to Prototyping By Todd Zaki Warfel Rosenfeld Media, November 2009 Available in paperback and digital package (1-933820-21-7),...
From Schneier on Security
Quantum Ghost Imaging
This is cool: Ghost imaging is a technique that allows a high-resolution camera to produce an image of an object that the camera itself cannot see. It uses two...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-18
Inventing a Better Patent System While these proposed reforms of the US system are to be welcomed, they fail to address - or even acknowledge -...
From The Noisy Channel
Exploring Explortatory Search
Google’s recently released Image Swirl is slick. But I’ve been struggling to figure out whether it’s useful or simply a showcase for cool technology.
From Apophenia
Call for Descriptions: Online Safety Programs
The Risky Behaviors and Online Safety track of the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone as Sensing Platform
The IPhone positioned as a version of the Tricorder, a universal information gathering device that can connect the right data to the right analytical methods that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing Takes Some Searchers from Yahoo
Not unexpected. Like I have said I have found Bing to be a usefully different search method. No doubt that Google has huge inertia, but Bing has shown some useful...
From The Eponymous Pickle