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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 Eponymous Pickle
Flocking Methods for Clustering
For a proposed project I am examining flocking methods to build spatial clusters. Flocking/Herding is the regularly observable activity of animals like birds gathering...
From Putting People First
A Synchronicity, a book by Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova
A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing by Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova Available as a print-on-demand book from lulu.com. Click here...
From Putting People First
Data mines and ideas of time
The boys at design consultancy BERG are prolific this week: Toiling in the data-mines: what data exploration feels like by Tom Armitage “There are several aspects...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Squeezing Knowledge from a Pixel
Alex Williams of RedWriteWeb talks to IBM about ' ... developing analytics platforms to help companies better understand how multiple pieces of information fit....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human-Computer Interaction
A good overview of the recent Human-Computer Information Retrieval HCIR workshop this past week. This is such an important topics and it is good to see increasing...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Underlying Foundation of Professional Development
If I were to ask the question: "What should be the underlying foundation of every professional development opportunity?" many of you would immediately have an answer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Add this to Your RSS Feed
If you like what you read here take the time to add this blog to your RSS feed. Don't use RSS? Its a great way to make your Web reading more efficient. More about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Len Kleinrock and the Internet
Len Kleinrock on the 40th annoversary of the Internet in IEEE Computer: A Revolution Forty Years in the Making. -
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-26
Weak Points of Sun Deal Come Out in Europe I do hope the folks filing narrowly-focussed letters at the EU are paying attentionSun...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flare Data Visualization for the Web
Of interest, the Flare library, from the UC Berkeley Visualization Lab. Contains a number of visualization capabilities, an example is the Job Voyager, demonstration...
From The Noisy Channel
HCIR 2009: Human-Human Interaction
On Friday, I had the privilege of seeing just how much the annual Workshop on Human-Computer Information Retrieval has grown up since I conceived it in the summer...
From Schneier on Security
CIA Invests in Social-Network Datamining
From Wired: In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Day 1
Michele and Michael continue their guest posts from Atlanta.The first day of FOCS is officially over. 8 sessions, 26 talks and 270 proceedings pages have already...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Experimenting With Social Search
Google may be an also-ran in the social networking market with its Brazil-centric Orkut service, but that hasn’t stopped the search giant from adding social features...
From Putting People First
Stop your search engines
Peggy Orenstein forced herself offline, and reflects in the New York Times Magazine whether this is the path to true knowledge: “Not long ago, I started an experiment...
From Putting People First
Memory and forgetting in the digital age
Yadin Dudai writes in the New Scientist on two books on memory and forgetting in the digital age — Total Recall: How the e-memory revolution will change everything...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience and Workplace Systems
An interesting example of what goes on in workplace contexts and how people interact with artificial systems like computers and avatars. What would this imply...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Consumer Contact Center
In Consumergoods Magazine: ' Unilever Unveils Online Self-Service Platform Unilever goes live with the Astute Solutions' RealDialog Self-Service solution on its...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Day 0
Alas, I'm not in Atlanta but in New York City for another meeting. Something different this time--FOCS through the eyes of two Northwestern students, Michele Budinich and...
From The Eponymous Pickle