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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
First CIFellows sub-award completed!
Today, the first sub-award in the Computing Innovation Fellows project was completed! Under the CIFellows project – conceived of and implemented by CCC and CRA,...
From Apophenia
help me find innovative practitioners who address online safety issues
I need your help. One of our central conclusions in the Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report was that many of the online safety issues require the collective...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Freestyle as Market Research
Roger Dooley writes about the Coke Freestyle intelligent dispenser as a market research approach. I agree, it is a way to link research to differentiated delivery...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Press Releases Still Have Value
A recent conversation at our little start-up questioned the need for press releases. Paul Gillin makes the case that a number of things that could be described...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Assistant
Everyone likes the idea of having an intelligent assistant to help lead them through complex systems tasks. Yet almost no one liked Microsoft's 'clippy' idea. The...
From Putting People First
Designing waits that work
The MIT Sloan Management Review has published Donald Norman’s paper ‘Designing Waits That Work‘ (available for $6.50). It is based on a 2008 paper by Norman, entitled...
From CSDiary
At last: *Useful* social networking
For the past two weeks I’ve had meetings in Washington DC. For various reasons, I decided to drive instead of fly. Well, on my Monday drive down to DC, I was nabbed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Collaboration via Reflected Knowledge
In HBS Working Knowledge, a look at how to make remote and global collaboration work. ' .... Based on 47 semi-structured interviews and 140 survey responses in...
From Putting People First
An interview with Eric von Hippel
Scott Wilson interviewed Prof. Eric von Hippel of MIT
From Putting People First
Nokia in trouble? How fast can a mobile device giant react?
Fascinating and seemingly very realistic tale on the potential of Nokia (and other device manufacturers) to be able to react to the introduction of the iPhone in...
From Return 42;
Sector/Sphere beats Hadoop. Again.
Clouds are everywhere. Next to endless options for cloud hosting, there are even more possibilities and platforms to perform cloud computing itself. The most popular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time on on Web Diminishing
In AdAge. Not for me. And some of the comments believe that it is an artifact of measurement. Yet it does have to flatten eventually.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Semantic Search
Semantic analysis. An area of interest. In readwriteweb and in Computerworld. Google is continuing to improve search that includes semantic concepts. What does...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Building CS in South Carolina
This blog is like the blogs I have seen people writing in real time during conference presentations. I am writing this in the middle of our Advanced Placementwill...
From Putting People First
Experience sampling on the iPhone
Can the Apple iPhone measure your happiness, asks Jenna Wortham on the New York Times Bits blog. “Matt Killingsworth, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Harvard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seven Rules of Interpersonal Relationships
These are fairly obvious, but worth some further thought.-
From Putting People First