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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 The Noisy Channel
Marti Hearst
Those of you who know Marti Hearst or follow her work may have heard that she’s been writing a book on Search User Interfaces to follow up on her chapter in Ricardo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Blog
Long time colleague Richard James, who is always interesting, writes: 'Just got back from P&G Alumni event/few days holiday in Rome. Met some fantastic peopleinteresting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Escape from Cubicle Nation
Much enjoyed Pamela Slim's Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur. This is the kind of how-to book that I usually just skim...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Five Minute Books
I see that Jerry Michalski is putting together an interesting conference call idea. See more at the link. Always love new ideas for sharing knowledge. See also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Networking Inside the Enterprise
This short article makes the case that social networking inside the enterprise is more important than outside. This was precisely what I was involved with before...
From Apophenia
xkcd meets reality
Earlier this week, xkcd posted a fantastic comic about the apocalypse happening and the dead rising to walk the earth. In the comic, mathematicians scribbled frantically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and Amazon Stifling Creativity?
In an interesting and detailed piece, Cory Doctorow writes: ' ... Now, it's not that I hate Amazon or Google, but I do understand that they are fast becoming the...
From Putting People First
Mobile impact
Last week I quoted from Robert Fabricant’s contribution to a Fast Company discussion roundtable on the impact of the mobile phone. Robert has meanwhile posted the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unloaded Dice Program
Mind Hacks points to an excellent podcast program on the science of randomness. ' ... The hour long science trip largely focuses on how we make sense of random...
From The Noisy Channel
Google
Great post from our commenter-in-chief Jeremy Pickens on his own blog, Information Retrieval Gupf, about comments from Google Director of Research Peter Norvig...
From Putting People First
Thomas Crampton on his transition from journalism to digital strategy
Thomas Crampton, a former correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times, was asked to address an OECD gathering in Paris about his transition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolving Complicators and Simplifiers
From the Edge, a talk with John Bargh, professor of social psychology at Yale University and director of the ACME (Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation and Evaluation)...
From Putting People First
UK report on how cities use innovation to tackle social challenges
British Council press release: Breakthrough cities is a groundbreaking report on how cities can mobilise creativity and knowledge to tackle compelling social challenges...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science For K-8? Yes! (With Curriculum Resources!)
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Neuroscience Blog
Looks to be interesting, I see the posts so far have considerable detail on marketing issues.'We are pleased to announce the launch of Lucid Thoughts, a blog devoted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whole Foods Launches App
I see that Whole Foods has launched an Iphone/ITouch application that indexes its 2000 recipes. The same recipes it has had online. I installed and did some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SourceForge Grows Up
I have used the open source developer community Sourceforge a number of times. Its useful because it can point to useful and economical solutions to tough problems...
From Putting People First
Even the BBC believes that we are all hackers now
My quest of understanding the mainstreaming of hacker culture is now also endorsed by the BBC: “The maze of electronics on a typical circuit board can be difficult...
From Putting People First