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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
Design ethnography and mood maps
Will Evans, principal, experience design for Twin Technologies, writes in a somewhat rambling post about the value of mood maps to document and map the emotional...
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Digital diaries
Celine Perin, design researcher at frog design, describes on Use8 what digital diaries are, and why this a great methodology for interactive, international user...
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The future of money
Stowe Boyd, an internationally recognised authority on social applications and their impact on business, media, and society, launched a new interview series examining...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wind Telecom and Netezza
Press release about WIND Telecom and Netezza. ' ... The Netezza system was specified and installed by Netezza partner ICare, a local data warehousing and BI specialist...
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Digital Barbarism?
Reading Mark Helprin's Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto. A good contrast to previously reviewed The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, by...
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links for 2009-07-04
Fences in the ether: Brazil's proposed Internet laws Great analysis of the folly of the laws proposed in Brazil that makes President...
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Claytronics, Cars, and Princess Leia?
Like any research project at CMU Computer Science, the CMU-Intel Claytronics Project publishes lots of papers in research conferences and journals. The project...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Neuromarketing
Bruce Hall on NeuromarketingMakes the point that this adds to the existing rationally-directed methods, but not that NM can add a deeper and more complete dimension...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Column stores and row stores: should you care?
Most database users row-oriented databases such as Oracle or MySQL. In such engines, the data is organized by rows.
From The Eponymous Pickle
SEO Analysis Using Data Visualization
Nice little case study:SEO Keyword Analysis: How to Use Data Visualization to Make it Quick and Easy by Niels Hoven Do-it-yourself keyword strategy for under $10...
From Return 42;
The other side of the table: Scott Aaronson
It is time for the next one. This time we feature the open question of Scott Aaronson.Since 2007 Scott Aaronson is a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is collaboration correlated with productivity?
Apparently, it is prestigious to write research papers with people from other countries. Funding agencies routinely favor collaboration between different
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Interview with the director of UX of the New York Times
Vicky Teinaki talked to Alex Wright, Director of User Experience at The New York Times, and author of Glut, a book on the history of information architecture from...
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A few months ago, we wrote with satisfaction how the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) got inspired by the theme of its first European regional conference...
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Freeconomics: Giving it Away
From Wharton's Knowledge Today, a view of alternate economic models: ' ... Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, extols the market power of giving your product...
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Videos of Compostmodern conference online
All videos of the Compostmodern conference (San Francisco, February 2009) are now online. Presented by the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and the AIGA Center for...
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July-August issue of Interactions magazine is out
The July-August issue of Interactions magazine is out and more and more content is publicly available online (thank goodness): Editorial: Interactions: Time, Culture...
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