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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
User research at Apple
In a truly excellent article, entitled “You can’t innovate like Apple”, Alain Breillatt also discusses Apple’s approach to user research. “While I
From Apophenia
Would the real social network please stand up?
This ideas in this post are based on conversations with Bernie Hogan and should be interpreted as the production of our co-thinking. All too frequently, someone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Acquire SPSS
Big news in analytics world. The article says to do better predictive analytics. In the enterprise SPSS and SAS have been heavily used since the 6os. Quite an acquisition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Ad Research
In the NYT: Lab Watches Web Surfers to See Which Ads Work. How they are using eye tracking and other biometric techiques to understand how ads work. As always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence in Manufacturing
New overview paper in business intelligence issues in manufacturing by MAIA. Covers much of the typical context of BI for manufacturing. Not prescriptive but good...
From Putting People First
People will be able to control and federate their own data
John Clippinger, who directs the Law Lab at Harvard University, predicts, in this video on Nokia’s IdeasProject, a huge shift over the next one to two years in...
From Putting People First
Stanford seminars on people, computers and design
“CS547. Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)” is a course of the Stanford HCI Group, coordinated by Terry Winograd, on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Say Everything
Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters by Scott RosenbergA history of blogging to date with interpretation along the way. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Theory of Games and Economic Misbehavior
By George Dyson in the Edge. The historian of science takes on math models of economies. A bit dense in its historical references, but makes you think.
From Putting People First
What is the interest created by conversational currency?
As the world moves to accommodate
From Putting People First
Conceptual consumption
An article in the New York Times Magazine brought me to an interesting article by behavioural economist Daniel Ariely, who has been featured previously on this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Much Less Mail
US postal service reports the largest drop in mail volume in hundreds of years. Not unexpected, but the statistics here are interesting. Paper mail, like many...
From Putting People First
How wired gadgets encroach on privacy
With every high-tech gadget we buy, we give up a little more privacy. Many devices today are in constant communication with their manufacturer. And it’s not just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Knowledge Hurt Innovation?
From HBR, Can knowledge hurt innovation? ' ... A meeting I had recently with some folks at Gillette highlighted an important issue facing the would-be innovator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Retooling Privacy Policies
Wal-Mart is in the process of retooling its privacy policies to include mobile and online data. In Storefrontbacktalk. Where they talk about the implications.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 27
July 29 Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on peer-to-peer file sharing, with a focus on inadvertent file sharing...
From Wild WebMink