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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
Design Using the Golden Ratio
From the DownloadSquad ' .. The Golden Ratio has been used in design for ages. Such greats as DaVinci, Michaelangelo, Rembrandt, Mondrian, and LeCorbusier utilized...
From Return 42;
Many Ways to Tag Taggables
Today, I was looking for a current version of acts_as_taggable for a small Rails project I am working on. It seems like there are more than a hand full at the moment...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Over 800 Reports of Health Data Breaches in California this Year
According to Wired.com's Threat Level, the new California law requiring "organizations in California to report suspected incidents of intentional and unintentional...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 13
July 14 Meeting: The Election Assistance Commission will meet and hold a public hearing. Part of the agenda will focus on accessibility and voting technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demonstration Projects at Wolfram
I know I have been harping on Wolfram Mathematica, but since I have been re-introduced to their suite and have had a chance to scan their offerings I have noticed...
From Putting People First
Nokia patents gestural phone controls
A promotional video earlier today, and now a patent application — too much of a coincidence: “We know that Nokia is looking into more areas than just buttons and...
From Apophenia
I Want my Cyborg Life
For the last few years, I've been spoiled. I've been surrounded by people who, when asked a question, immediately bring out a digital device and look it up. The...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-13
Google's Microsoft Moment - Anil Dash Brilliant piece by Anil Dash. It took Microsoft until 2005 to start to grasp the issue he...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AAAI Opens Digital Library
The premier professional Artificial Intelligence society, AAAI, has opened its digital library to the public..
From Putting People First
Nokia
The Nokia Conversations blog reports: Designing gestures to help you interact with your device in intuitive ways is a challenge that Nokia is grabbing with both...
From Putting People First
Craiglist founder on the changing balance between authority and the crowd
In a short video interview on Nokia’s IdeasProject Craigslist founder and customer service expert Craig Newmark says Internet connectivity is adjusting the balance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Average Quicksand
Herb Sorensen of TNS Sorensen talks about "Average" Quicksand in shopping trips: ' ... What is the life experience of the average human being? Other than that...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-12
Amazon X5 Free Sampler - Golden Voices Start the week with some timelessly wonderful music - another great sampler that AmazonMusic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented ID on Mobile
What you would love to see is a picture ID on any picture taken with your mobile cam. Even the ability, if it were reliable enough, to use it as a means to identify...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3DSee: 3D Modeling on the Web
Always looking for easier ways to take aspects of the real world and turn it into manipulable models online. Here reviewed in DownloadSquad. A means of building...
From CSDiary
Carlos Guestrin Wins Presidential Early Career Award
Carlos Guestrin has just been given the highest honor bestowed by the US government for early-career scientists and engineers, the Presidential Early Career Award...
From Putting People First