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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
Simple Portfolio Analysis
Today I attended a webinar by Gary L. Lilien on teaching portfolio analysis using the GE/McKinsey approach. He is author of the book Marketing Engineering. Have...
From Schneier on Security
Printing Police Handcuff Keys
Using a 3D printer. Impressive. At the end of the day he talked the officers into trying the key on their handcuffs and
From Putting People First
Grameen Foundation: mHealth ethnography report
One of the projects of AppLab, the application laboratory of the Grameen Foundation, is focused on mobile technology for community health (MoTeCH) in Ghana: “Grameen...
From My Biased Coin
Random Musings for the Day
I like Daniel Lemire's post on "the truth" about research grants so much, I'm linking to it.Richard Lipton is taking bets on whether P = NP; well, not really,substantially...
From Putting People First
Mayo Clinic
This week the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation hosted Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery. The symposium...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Long Lasting Perfume Delivery
Procter & Gamble's Connect & Develop program requests input for technical solutions to long lasting perfume delivery system.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience Picks top Emmy Winners
Sands Research claims to have predicted the top Emmy Awards (three out of top five) with their EEG based NEF scores, details in post, plus links to their previous...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Report from the AZ Leadership Cohort
I am fortunate that my fellow Arizona representative on the Leadership Cohort, Renee Ciezki, is a friend from the same school district. Although this has probably...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Overview
From Kevin Randall at FastCompany: Neuromarketing Hope and Hype: 5 Brands Conducting Brain Research. Reasonably short, but necessarily incomplete overview of the...
From Computational Complexity
Fashionable Research
A student asks "How do you survive in the academic world if what you want to do is not fashionable?" You shouldn't necessarily focus your research on the currently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New at Qwaq
Received a note about updates at Qwaq: Virtual Spaces for Real Work. Much surprised they have not received more traction. We took a look a few years ago and I have...
From Putting People First
Yahoo!
Archana Rai of LiveMint.com, the online edition of Mint, an Indian partner publication of the Wall Street Journal, has interviewed Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo!...
From Putting People First
This happened
This happened is a series of London-based events focusing on the stories behind interaction design. “Having ideas is easier than making them happen. We delve into...
From Putting People First
Wayfinding through technology
Cennydd Bowles, a user experience designer for Clearleft, discusses how people form mental models of urban environments, and how technology can augment and even...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones vs Desktops
Although smartphones have made considerable progress in being business friendly tools Forrester suggests that desktops still rule for business applications. We...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The hard truth about research grants
You must do many silly things to get a large research grant: You must know precisely what you will do for the next five years. Yet, in my experience, good researchers...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-15
Five consumer laws you really ought to know Helpful summary of consumer protections in the UK. Plenty more to know, but this bare...
From Schneier on Security
Skein News
Skein is one of the 14 SHA-3 candidates chosen by NIST to advance to the second round. As part of the process, NIST allowed the algorithm designers to implement...
From My Biased Coin