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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
How designers can influence behavior
Robert Fabricant wrote about the role of the designer in behavioural change and describes three new design strategies: persuasion design, catalyst design and performance...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Leadership Cohort Update from Washington (State)
As a member of the CSTA Leadership cohort, I have had an exciting year in Washington. A group of very dedicated educators and business members have been working...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Relations 2.0 Examined
Good detailed article in PR 2.0 by Brian Solis: The State of PR, Marketing, and Communications: You are the Future. ' ... Contrary to popular belief, Social Media...
From Apophenia
Gender Gap in Perception of Computer Science
"New Image for Computing" recently released a report in their first wave to understand the image of computing among youth. Funded by WGBH and ACM, this report examines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart on Marketing
In AdAge: Wal-Mart on their increasingly sophisticated methods of marketing and associated research. Also an increasingly strong approach to merchandising in their...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 8
June 10 Hearing: The Research and Science Education subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on research and development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Evolution of Private Label
Q&A: Nielsen Industry Insight Director Details Evolution of Private Label, National Brands ' ... Nielsen Co. director of industry insights Tom Pirovano noted that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demise of the University
Don Tapscott in the Edge on the demise of the University. Universities like MIT are posting their coursework online. Libraries are online. Wikis allow knowledge...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-07
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive Currently reading the copy of The Geek Atlas that O'Reilly kindly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mirror Neurons and the Social Web
Matt Bamford-Bowes muses about Mirror Neurons and the Social Web. ' I think social web activity is one which is a reflection of Mirror Neurons at work ... ' ....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - May 2008 (Vol. 52, No. 5)
Here are some items in the May issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. Remember, much of the material in CACM is considered premium content...
From The Noisy Channel
Those Who Give Twitter *Get* Twitter
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb wrote a post arguing that the people working at Twitter aren’t using the service the way its power users do, and that this...
From Putting People First
The limits of user-generated contents, as demonstrated by a North-Korean case
About four weeks ago, I wrote a post denouncing Current TV for their hypocrisy: encouraging user-generated content when it is not threatening, but actively censoring...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-06
Colorado Software Summit 2009 Cancelled After 18 years, the world's best developer conference closes the shutters after seeingEvents...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
CFP Panel on Voting and the Internet
Yesterday, during the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), USACM coordinated a panel to speak on voting and using the internet. It was chaired by Ed...
From Wild WebMink
OASIS Protects Open Source Developers From Software Patents
Some of you may remember a fuss that was made a few years ago by some open source people over the copyright and patent policy used by OASIS, the computer protocols...
From The Noisy Channel
Enabling Exploration Through Text Analytics
As promised, here are my slides from the recently held Text Analytics Summit. Feel free to download them from SlideShare–some of the animation may not come through...
From The Eponymous Pickle