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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 Schneier on Security
Is Antivirus Dead?
Security is never black and white. If someone asks, "for best security, should I do A or B?" the answer almost invariably is both. But security is always a trade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adoption of RFID
This issue has been on the table since at least 2000. Its such a good idea, so why isn't it taken up by everyone? The benefit studies have been done, the companies...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-10
Antitrust Division Issues Statement on the European Commission’s Decision Regarding the Proposed Transaction Between Oracle and Sun US Department...
From Putting People First
Book: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and...
From The Noisy Channel
The Noisy Noogler: A Quick FAQ
I’m barely 24 hours into my new life as a Googler, and I’ve already gotten lots of questions!
From Putting People First
CNN
Check out Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels’s superb appearance on CNN’s Christiane Amanpour show yesterday… vividly describing how as an opposition member...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Use of Twitter, Facebook Exploding
From CW: I am a bit surprised that these are seeing very widespread use. Article also covers some of the privacy and security watchouts. ' ... People using Twitter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Massively Complex Agent Environments
I am reposting this article from over a year ago to remind myself and readers of interesting work done in very large scale agent models. Here from Simulex, which...
From Computational Complexity
If FACEBOOK the new email?
Back in 1993 I had the following conversation with one of my relatives: BILL: Just give me your email address and I'll email it to you. RELATIVE: I don't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Isolation and New Technology
Yes, it does cause some isolation, but also opens many new doors as well.
From Schneier on Security
John Mueller on Zazi
I have refrained from commenting on the case against Najibullah Zazi, simply because it's so often the case that the details reported in the press have very little...
From Putting People First
The human factor
NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has published a 45-page discussion paper on how transforming healthcare to involve the...
From Putting People First
Designing mobile money services for emerging markets
Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase has posted an in-depth presentation and paper on designing mobile money services for emerging markets: “Hang around a telecoms...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Reading recommendation: Saturn
I just finished Saturn’s children. This is my third
From Schneier on Security
Laissez-Faire Access Control
Recently I wrote about the difficulty of making role-based access control work, and how reasearch at Dartmouth showed that it was better to let people take theThis...
From Putting People First
The internet is killing storytelling
Narratives are a staple of every culture the world over. Yet, argues Ben Macintyre, writer at large for The Times (UK), they are disappearing in an online blizzard...
From Putting People First
Banking the unbanked Africans
The November 2009 edition of Mobile Money Africa, “Africa’s leading online resource for mobile financial inclusion”, is entitled “Banking the unbanked Africans”...
From Apophenia
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
I am delighted to announce that "Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media" is now in the wild and available! This book...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-09
Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse I like this reflection from Chris Messina. The OpenOfficeMouse is just part of the rich flora and fauna...
From The Eponymous Pickle