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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
The Global Illicit Economy
Interesting video: A new class of global actors is playing an increasingly important role in globalization: smugglers, warlords, guerrillas, terrorists, gangs,...
From Putting People First
Social science meets technology in next-generation jobs
Gartner says the bridge to the future with social networks will be with roles with origins in the social sciences, reports eWeek. Better understanding of the Web...
From Putting People First
Awareness is everything
Jamais Cascio argues on Fast Company that, as our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms...
From Putting People First
Organizational Culture 101: a practical how-to for interaction designers
“To navigate the landscape of organizational culture interaction designers need a set of practical tools, language & knowledge drawn from the world of cultural...
From Putting People First
Josephine Green and Ezio Manzini featured in Philips magazine
From pyramids to pancakes The era of elitism, top-down management and deterministic ideals is over. We are now living in an age of social innovation and sustainability...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 7
Congress has returned from its August recess. September 10 Meeting: The Consumer Advisory Committee of the Federal Communications Commission will meet to discuss...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter E-Commerce Goals
From AdAge: P&G sets 4 Billion E-Commerce Goals. Increases have been suggested for years, this seems to a a very big and bold move forward. ' ... E-commerce has...
From My Biased Coin
ESA 2009
ESA is being held at the IT University of Copenhagen. It's a wonderful, fairly new university building, with one strange problem -- a severe shortage of plug outlets...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Summer is Over. I Know Because I am Wearing Shoes Again
Last year was the first year in our Great Transition, from teaching computer application courses to integrating computer science concepts into all of our courses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Aims for 360 Degree Insight
From the World Advertising Research Center (WARC): P&G Aims for 360 Degree Consumer Insight. Not too much very new here, but a restatement of an ongoing development...
From Putting People First
OPEN digital experience design: a strategic, trends-based approach
A recent article by Nita Rollins on DMI’s Digital Management Review: “As the Web has matured, brand relationships have become ever more dynamic. Nita Rollins outlines...
From Putting People First
All learning processes can be supported through mobile phones
Abhijit Kadle explains how the mobile phone can easily be used as a learning tool: “Like all communication and computing devices, mobile phones can be used to learn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Simulation
A neuro surgery simulator based on fMRI data, from Gizmodo. Also mentioned in Mind Hacks. Includes a video. Background information in Tech Review: ' ... First...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-07
Thinking about downloads JP Rangaswami does us all a favour by putting the facts about digital downloads all on one page. ThisUK...
From My Biased Coin
ESA Talk and Paper
Some people have asked me to post my survey/talk at ESA on Open Problems in Cuckoo Hashing. Now that the talk is over, here they are! Here's the paper, and here's...
From Schneier on Security
David Kilcullen on Security and Insurgency
Very interesting hour-long interview. Australian-born David Kilcullen was the senior advisor to US General David Petraeus during his time in Iraq, advising on...
From My Biased Coin
Controversy at ESA
As you might imagine, there's actually little controversy at ESA. But as I mentioned to some colleagues during the breaks, the only (consistent) way to get comments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Bad Graphs
Stephen Few on bad graphs in Information Management Magazine. I see it is a bit dated now, but still worth reviewing. Bad visualizations are very common. I have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThisweKnow
I had taken a look at the government database data.gov when it came out earlier this year. Now there is a semantic database use case for this data called Thisweknow...
From The Eponymous Pickle