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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
Enabling Exploration Through Text Analytics
As promised, here are my slides from the recently held Text Analytics Summit. Feel free to download them from SlideShare–some of the animation may not come through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Coupons at the Dairy Queen
Interesting test which uses stick-on RFID tags at Dairy Queen, by Evan Schuman in Storefrontbacktalk, read the whole thing for other examples of the approach: '...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wave Talk
Jerry Michalski files a podcast on his recent conference call on Google Wave.. The Google Wave site also has an introduction. ' ... Google Wave is a new tool for...
From Putting People First
The Economist on sensors, mapping and mobiles
The Economist this week comes with a new edition of its 24-page Technology Quarterly supplement, which contains four articles that are related to the theme of this...
From Putting People First
Public design projects by Participle
The site of Participle, a UK social design consultancy, contains some good materials on the design of the next generation of public services. Only the Lonely: Public...
From Putting People First
Mobile gesture design at Nokia - developing a new dialect of interaction
The field of mobile gestures is a fascinating one that Nokia is keenly exploring and researching, with explorative designers Younghee Jung and Dan Macleod on the...
From Putting People First
PICNIC
The upcoming PICNIC ‘09 conference (Amsterdam, 23-25 September) just announced is key themes: Exploding Media: Exploding Story This is the story of the extraordinary...
From Putting People First
Reinventing the home appliance
A Windows-enabled and Web-connected coffee maker like the prototype in this photo could check online for the proper grinding size of the beans you
From Putting People First
Tim Berners-Lee: I no longer understand the web
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behaviour. Paul Marks asked in The New Scientist...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.5 (June 4, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] ACM Co-sponsors Hill Briefing on Computer Science Education [3] USACM Elevated to Council Status in ACM [4] Congress Moves...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Google Squared
I mentioned this Google lab thing a while back. Google Squared. It is up now. You choose a name of a group of things and Google creates a table which contains...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Buys Retailer
In an unusual move P&G has bought the 'Art of Shaving', a high end mall retailer with 36 stores that sells Gillette products. A rare move into the retail space...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Squared: A Great First Step
Regular readers know that I am not a Google fan boy, and that much of my commentary on Google focuses on their neglect of exploratory search. Nonetheless, when...
From Wild WebMink
TweetSwoop: Illuminata's Take on JavaOne
I ran into analyst Jonathan Eunice this afternoon. Jonathan's long experience following Sun and Java makes him a great person to ask for an insightful and impartial...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
EAC Announces Proposed Revisions to 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines
On Monday the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) released a draft of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) Version 1.1 for public comment. This version...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Notes from the World Innovation Forum
Speakers notes from the recent World Innovation Forum, including those of my colleague Donna J. Sturgess: Building Brands through Emotion and Senses. A favorite...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Investing in Science-Based Innovation
From HBS Working Knowledge http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6056.html ' ... In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Book on Tagging
I was involved in an automatic tagging project a while back and reviewed Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web by Gene Smith. Now Understanding Folksonomy...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Search Appliance Woos, But Does It Wow?
Yesterday, Google announced the latest version of its search appliance, GSA 6.0, to great fanfare. As usual, their emphasis was on scale: they’re pushing a distributed...
From Wild WebMink