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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 CERIAS Blog
Other cybersecurity legislation in the U.S.
In response to my last post, several people have pointed out to me some other initiatives before Congress. Here are some brief comments on a few of them, basedThomas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Network for Researchers
Will Science 2.0 methods like these eliminate the need for research papers?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Orwellian act Removes Orwell Books
Apparently a number of electronic books were removed remotely from Kindle book readers after they were bought and paid for. Included Orwell titles. Thats an advantage...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Determinants of faculty research productivity
Should you hire Ph.D. graduates from top schools in your country? Maybe not: The present analysis however dispels the notion that graduates of high-status doctoral...
From Putting People First
Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications
Design ethnography: strategy for visual communications Leslie MacNeil Weber 2009 Graduate Thesis University of Washington Ethnography, a field of anthropological...
From Putting People First
Financial Times podcasts on connected lives
The Financial Times analyses the implications of a connected planet in this series of roundtable discussions. Connected Lives: the debate – Part 1 Three experts...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - July 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 7)
Here are some items in the July issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. As always, much of the content in CACM is premium content, and free...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Second Leadership Cohort Workshop
We just finished up a trip to Chicago for the second Leadership Cohort workshop. Going back for the second time help us to solidify many of the ideas that we put...
From Putting People First
Futures 2.0: rethinking the discipline
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang of The Institute for the Future has been working recently on a think-piece on what futures would look like if it started now: “If instead...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A few things American academics should know
I sometimes get annoyed at Americans who seem to think that the rest of the world is modeled after them. Here are some things many American academics seem to take...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What FriendFeed got wrong
Don’t you feel sometimes like your brain is running out of storage space? Myself, I am very forgetful. I always seek new tools to extend my brain. FriendFeed is...
From Putting People First
Power in People
The [UK] Government’s drive to reform public services by giving more power back to the citizen was accelerated yesterday, with the publication of a new study of...
From Putting People First
Re-framing the problem: social interaction design
Social media expert and social interaction theorist Adrian Chan describes on Johnny Holland on what he means with ’social interaction design’ and on the role of...
From Putting People First
Converting those who have no desire to be converted
80% of the transactions of the UK Government are done with the bottom 25% of society and migrating services online offers great cost savings. Yet, 17 million Britons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extracting Knowledge from the Web
In the enterprise we discovered how difficult it was to construct all the rules to provide the capabilities required for even a narrow slice of corporate knowledge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contactless at Home Depot and Best Buy
At StorefrontBacktalk ... a good report on how contactless payment is progressing. Though I see the devices everywhere, it seems not as well as we were told just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS and Social Network Analysis
SAS announced a new product that does social network analysis (SNA). This is something we experimented with inside the enterprise, initially with plain old e-mail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotions in Virtual Characters
In ZDNet:" .. Spanish researchers have developed a computer model able to generate virtual faces which display emotions and moods according to personality traits...
From Wild WebMink