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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 CSDiary
Star Trek Tech
How much of the technology in Star Trek could become real some day? This was the question posed to a group of faculty members here at Carnegie Mellon Computer Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Confidence vs Expertise
Dan Ariely's blog describes a study where participants were more influenced by confidence versus expertise. Very true, though very often confidence comes from expertise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Martin Lindstrom Newsletter
Martin Lindstrom, author of Buyology and Brandsense and one of Time's 100 most influential people, has just started an online newsletter. You can sign up here.site...
From Putting People First
Arup Foresight
Arup’s Drivers of Change initiative is an on-going research programme exploring those issues most likely to have a major impact upon society, on Arup
From Putting People First
Microsoft
Navi Radjou writes on HarvardBusiness.org that he recently visited the Microsoft Research India lab in Bangalore, describes what he learned about their Technology...
From Putting People First
Service Design, a short essay by Jennifer Bove
Service design, while often talked about in academia, is getting more and more attention from design companies and service providers, as the impact of experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generational Baloney?
Controversial, but I liked this. Classification is a powerful tool, but it also is capable at driving a lot of bad conclusions. I may not agree with all of this...
From The Noisy Channel
Student Discount for SIGIR Industry Track
I’m hoping to see many of you at SIGIR 2009 in Boston next month, and specifically at the Industry Track on July 22nd. I wanted to make sure that students were...
From The Noisy Channel
Can Real-Time Search Help Hedge Funds?
I haven’t exactly been generous in my opinons about the widespread obsession with “real-time” search. But in today’s Telegraph there’s at least a story that makes...
From The Noisy Channel
Marti Hearst
Check out Marti Hearst’s new book on Search User Interfaces! You can read my review here. Thanks to Christina for the heads up.
From Putting People First
Book: Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations Edited by Melissa Cefkin Berghahn Books, July 2009 262 pages Abstract Businesses...
From Putting People First
Practices around privacy (and Nokia)
A few days into the brouhaha about Nokia-Siemens Networks equipment being used for surveillance in Iran, Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase reflects on the controversy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dunkin Run
Dunkin Donuts has set up an IPhone app called Dunkin Run. You have to first set up a Dunkin Donuts account, then download the application. Its meant to set up a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Overview
Forbes bas published a good set of overview articles on the current state of artificial intelligence. ' ... Can machines think? In 1950, Alan Turing, considered...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Selects Final Council Members
As part of its elevation from committee to council, USACM recently completed elections for at-large seats on its Council. The voting members of the Council are...
From Putting People First
How people power can transform Britain
The Independent is publishing a collection of essays to launch NESTA
From Putting People First
Charles Leadbeater essay: The Art of With
Charles Leadbeater explores what the advent of the web, collaborative practice and open source ways of working mean for the arts and art organisations in this excellent...
From The Eponymous Pickle