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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 The Noisy Channel
Week 1 at Google: Information Overload!
As you might imagine, it’s quite a switch to go from criticizing Google from the outside to being on the inside. Jeff Jarvis, who was gracious enough not to make...
From Putting People First
Nokia has designs on India
Nokia’s senior design specialists are touring India to discover how Indians use cellphones. Leslie D’Monte reports for New Delhi’s Business Standard. Jhanvi Madan...
From Putting People First
The social dimension of environmental sustainability
Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino went yesterday to the international “The social dimension of environmental sustainability
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Data Dives
In the CACM, Discovering natural laws using massive amounts of data. Also called knowledge discovery, here with some new directions: ' ... Mining scientific...
From Putting People First
Singapore on design possibilities for tomorrow
The Singapore Design Festival, running November 20-30, now themed “Design 2050: Possibilities for Tomorrow,” , is also continuing its quest to improve people’s...
From Schneier on Security
FBI/CIA/NSA Information Sharing Before 9/11
It's conventional wisdom that the legal "wall" between intelligence and law enforcement was one of the reasons we failed to prevent 9/11. The 9/11 Comission evaluated...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What is Computational Thinking
In the March 2006 issue of the Communications of the ACM, Jeannette Wing generated a significant response with her article on Computational Thinking. One of the...
From Return 42;
JSpec
Testing everything is a good thing - or call it TATFT if you have to. While most programming languages already feature great testing frameworks, the ones available...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Commission on Shopper Marketing
Am a bit late to this, but of interest:' ... As part of its ongoing Shopper Merchandising and Marketing leadership strategy, Coca-Cola North America (CCNA) is sponsoring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Details Mathematica R&D
More from the 2009 International Mathematica User Conference: ' ... In this second video clip, Stephen gives a detailed description of what’s coming in the R&D...
From Computational Complexity
Breaking Walls
Many of you readers don't remember a time when there were two Germanys or when we didn't think IP = PSPACE. Two walls collapsed in November of 1989 that changed...
From Putting People First
Matt Webb presentation at UX Week 2009 (video)
Matt Webb of Berg was one of the speakers at UX Week 2009, a conference in San Francisco organised by Adapative Path. In his presentation “Design Is In Your Hands...
From Putting People First
Designing for a sustainable world
To celebrate World Usability Day 2009, System Concepts has put together a video podcast exploring how different stakeholders can enhance the user experience of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Which should you pick: a bitmap index or a B-tree?
Morteza Zaker sent me pointer to their work comparing bitmap indexes and B-trees in the Oracle database. They examine the folklore surrounding bitmap indexes—which...
From Putting People First
Towards human-centred knowledge management tools
Institute for the Future just released its latest research report, Knowledge Tools of the Future, written by Alex Pang and Mike Love. The report takes an in-depth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing and Wolfram Alpha
In what is a useful direction, Bing and Wolfram Alpha are collaborating. Google already does some of this by understanding some kinds of numerical dimensionality...
From Schneier on Security
Security in a Reputation Economy
In the past, our relationship with our computers was technical. We cared what CPU they had and what software they ran. We understood our networks and how they worked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Destroying Manufacturing Jobs
You probably have one, a sink garbage disposer, many are made by Emerson Electric along with other electrical equipment. Emerson's CEO says the US Government is...
From Computational Complexity
New York Theory Day
IBM-NYU-COLUMBIA theory day on Dec 11 ! Here is pointer to more information: here My advice: If you are able to go (distance, time, money all okay) then you...
From Schneier on Security