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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 Putting People First
Case study: NPR.org
On July 27, 2009, National Public Radio (NPR) relaunched the website www.npr.org through the efforts of its in-house design team and interactive agency Schematic...
From Computational Complexity
Ambiguity
I recently heard or read the following phrases. former cop killer ideal compromiser even prime numbers have their uses In each case it was ambiguous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Zakta Search Engine
I see that Mahendra Vora and Sundar Kadayam have founded a startup called Zakta. Much more here. He and his colleagues are best known for founding Intelliseek...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Crowd Sourcing
More details in AdAge about Unilever's use of crowd sourcing to replace some kinds of some product marketing. The comments are also interesting.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 14
September 14 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cyberattacks and industry. 10 a.m., 342 Dirksen Building...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How things change: Cheaters are Innovators
If you seek approval above all else, you are unlikely to innovate outside the rigid bounds of the current system: You do not convince existing journals to give...
From Wild WebMink
? Truly Random
IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office Copying Sun again :-) What will they do for ideas after Sun is gone? (tags: IBM...
From My Biased Coin
Colleges, Newspapers
A colleague sent me this link to a Washington Post article, on how colleges are going to be "torn apart" like newspapers have been by the Internet. Dramatically...
From Schneier on Security
Robert Sawyer's Alibis
Back in 2002, science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer wrote an essay about the trade-off between privacy and security, and came out in favor of less privacy. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spotfire BI Blog
Wim Van de Velde points me to Tibco Spotfire's new Business Intelligence Blog which I have put on my feed. I like their current post on five unconventional uses...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Lifts Product Placement Ban
Apparently in the UK placed products on imported shows are often blurred. Inside the UK product placements are banned. The BBC reports that this placement ban is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Norman Borlaug Dies
We see that Norman Borlaug, father of the Green revolution, Nobel scientist, died yesterday at the age of 95. It is estimated that he has saved many millions of...
From Putting People First
Intel
In a two-part podcast Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow and Director of the User Experience Group, discusses the intersection of technology and society, with a special...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turing Test for Bots
Tech Review writes about fascinating work creating a test to determine if a bot is human. The original Turing Test came from a proposal by computing pioneer Alan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vintage Visualization
Mike Cristia of Market Intelligence Group (MIG), points me to a Flowingdata post on Vintage Infographics from the 1930s. Some nice examples and links to the whole...
From Apophenia
Sometimes I Feel Like a Bitch
For the most part, I'm a fuzzy lovable energetic creature (or at least I like to think so). But new technologies combined with information overload sometimes bring...
From Schneier on Security