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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
Could Twitter ever be used to trigger a genocide?
Jamais Cascio asks in a Fast Company article if the same technologies that have allowed for a potential democratic revolution in Iran could emerge just as readily...
From Putting People First
Four new Dott07 case studies
The UK Design Council just published — a little late — four short case studies based on the experience of Dott07, a year of community projects, events and exhibitions...
From CSDiary
Nico Habermann Wins ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award
The newly established ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award recognizes an educator who has “made significant contributions to, and impact on, the field of software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPOV: An E-Learning Service Bureau
The topic of knowledge management was one of my interests in the enterprise. In the 80s we tried mostly successfully, and also very expensively to use artificial...
From The Noisy Channel
Real-Time But Not Ready For Prime Time
Extra, extra, read all about it–two new real-time search engines debuted today: CrowdEye and Collecta. I love the headlines from Techmeme: Mashable!: Collecta:...
From Putting People First
Large scale user testing project as part of the Digital Britain initiative
According to NewMediaAge, the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB), the government body for business innovation in technology, and NESTA, the National Endowment for...
From Apophenia
Understanding retweeting on Twitter
As we try to work out how Iranian citizens, activists, journalists, new media propagators, and politically conscious folks are using Twitter to converse about the...
From Putting People First
Clive Thompson on the future of reading in a digital world
Clive Thompson explores the future of reading, and of books, in a digital world, and remains optimistic. “Books are the last bastion of the old business model
From Putting People First
The blind leading the deaf
A recent HarvardBusiness.org article about the use of anthropology and ethnography in global R&D strategies (blogged about here), has got Nokia’s user anthropologist...
From Putting People First
We are all hackers now (ctd.)
In my ongoing exploration of the theme “we are all hackers now” (also the title of a talk I will give on 29 June in Brussels), I once again found quite a lot of...
From CSDiary
Chairing the CRA
Today I attended a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, my first as its Chair. In case you don’t know, the CRA does a lot to...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Markets Itself
I still don’t buy that Google is “gripped with fear“, but I agree with Danny Sullivan’s analysis that Google’s new “Explore Google Search” page (with a link in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing and Search Optimization
An item about emotional engagement and search engine optimization. Two areas that I am currently engaged in.
From The Noisy Channel
JCDL 2009
For the benefit of those of us not lucky enough to be attending this year’s Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), a number of attendees are live-tweeting...
From The Noisy Channel
Spam in the Twitterverse
I’ve noted in the past that “real-time” alerting systems, in contrast to search engines that place less emphasis on immediacy, are particularly vulnerable to spamming...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Increasing Female Participation
I have always dreamed of my students working with an international student team on a computing project. This dream became reality when I met Archana Chidanandan...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is Open Access publishing the solution? Really?
Back when I was a consultant, I had client who was convinced that Microsoft Windows was free software. So, he insisted that all applications ran on Microsoft’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia Community
A good Q&A about the Wikipedia community. The comments also post some excellent thoughts. I remain a proponent, with the usual words of caution, which can also...
From CSDiary
CMU CS Department to Move to Gates and Hillman Centers on August 3
I’ve been feeling pretty guilty about being off the blog for the past month. I do have some excuses, though. Of course, there were the usual paper and proposal...
From The Eponymous Pickle