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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Elevated to Council Status in ACM
The ACM Executive Council recently elevated its U.S. Public Policy Committee - USACM - to council status. This change reflects ACM's increasing attention to public...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Happy Birthday UPC
The UPC code, one of the most recognized global symbols, is 35 years old this month. ' ... the first live use of a UPC took place in a Marsh Supermarkets store...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Site Tactics from Eyetracking Studies
A good summary of site design tactics based on eyetracking studies. Some surprising to me.
From Putting People First
Thinking about an Ushahidi-for-mBanking platform
After Patrick Meier, a doctoral research fellow at Harvard University, a PhD candidate at The Fletcher School, and an active contributor at Ushahidi, participated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LPA Rules and Term Sheet Generator
I have written about Logic Programming Associates (LPA) in UK several times here. They do Prolog-based rule systems, in other words, expert systems. Worked on...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Exploring Robotics Options
At Georgia Tech, our students must take a senior design class before they can graduate and I often have them work together in groups to create something for me...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Links Loyalty to Minutes
In a very simple program, Kroger is starting to test the idea of getting free wireless minutes for purchases on their loyalty cards.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Study of the Use of Emoticons
Emoticons, those little confabulated piece of punctuation have been around for some time. Some people use little image-icons, though they have been around since...
From The Noisy Channel
Banging on Bing: A Bummer
So, Bing is out early. Yes, an early release from Microsoft! And it’s snappy, attractive, and offers decent quality. If I needed to use Bing as my main search engine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Cloud Reliable Enough?
Having now encountered several severe Google outages, this issue has been coming to mind more often. Now that just about every business uses the Internet to communicate...
From Putting People First
Clay Shirky on social media and the emotional dimension of news
Clay Shirky is this week’s guest on Nokia’s IdeasProject site. He talks about social media and the emotional dimension of news. “Clay Shirky says that the lightning...
From Putting People First
FT special report on connectivity
The Financial Times has published a special report on connectivity, analysing the implications of a connected planet. My preferred pieces: Skills: Business must...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's Self Service Kiosks
Wal-Mart has started an experiment with self-service kiosks. An intriguing issue regarding the resulting data ownership issues. Given the kind of information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Data Via the Semantic Web
Readwriteweb article that points to work by PriceWaterHouse. ' ... explains how the Semantic Web and Linked Data can help enterprises manage their large-scale data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Networks
Noting the work of Peter Gloor at MIT. In particular he studies innovation networks-- the ecosystem of innovation, learning, and collaborative knowledge networks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overreaching in Neuromarketing?
The interpretation of brain images and other biometric measurements are part of a broad and increasingly practiced set of methods called neuromarketing. Following...
From Putting People First
In the US, even the homeless stay connected
The Wall Street Journal reports on the use of the internet by homeless people in San Francisco. “A few years ago, some people were worrying that a “digital divide”...
From Putting People First
Round. The World. Connected. A video series
The Nokia Siemens Network has created an extremely well produced website and video series, entitled “Round. The World. Connected.” that sets out to understand what...
From Putting People First