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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
Considering the future of mobile phones
Ken Banks, creator of FrontlineSMS, writes in PC World on the future of mobile phones and believes that many future mobile innovations will be borne out of the...
From Putting People First
Gartner: Users of mobile payments to double by 2012
The number of people using mobile devices to purchase goods and services is expected to more than double by the end of 2012 globally, research firm Gartner Inc....
From Putting People First
NPR: mobile phones do much more than make calls
In Asia, Africa, Europe and elsewhere, cell phone technology has always been way ahead of what’s available in the states. Around the world, people use their phones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chartle Data Visualization
A simple online data visualization tool called Chartle as a Web application in early Beta that is looking for testers. You can create, embed and share results...
From CERIAS Blog
A Cynic
Today, and Before On July 17, 2008, (then) Senator Barack Obama held a town hall meeting on national security at Purdue University. He and his panel covered issues...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Alan T. Waterman Award
The NSF Alan T. Waterman Award recognizes one extraordinary young scientist or engineer annually.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Obama Releases Cybersecurity Review
Today the Obama Administration released its cybersecurity review, a 60 day review of federal cybersecurity activity headed by Melissa Hathaway and completed in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How little do People Actually Read?
Jakob Nielsen pulls together data from eyetracking about how little people actually read on a web. Its mostly scanning I know, but it is worse than you think: ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media as a Commodity
Good piece by Dave Fleet posts on social media as a commodity. Anyone can provide it, but what do good clients care about when you provide the service?
From The Noisy Channel
Journalism Is Not Like Craigslist
In response to a meeting sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America about “Models to Monetize Content” (i.e., how to charge for online news), Scott Rosenberg...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Stop Generating Metadata and Access the Full Content!
Many researchers advocate the use of metadata to help find or recommend content automatically. Metadata is certainly useful when aggregating content for human...
From The Noisy Channel
Page
I hesitate to cite Valleywag as a news source, but I did read there that Sergey Brin is crediting fellow Google co-founder Larry Page with “Page’s Law“, the assertion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-inventing E-Mail
Google is attempting to re-invent e-mail. This is a good overview article. In Gmail they have been adding little pieces of functionality, with varying levels'...
From Putting People First
Tinkering to the future
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, researcher director at the Institute for the Future, is working on a book on the end of cyberspace
From Putting People First
Nokia
In a long article in The Register, Andrew Orlowski looks at the many problems Nokia faced the other day with the launch of its Ovi Store, and criticises the company...
From Putting People First
Glued to the machine and going for broke
Natasha Schull, assistant professor in the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society, says Vegas gambling machines designed to get people to ‘play to extinction’...
From Putting People First
In defense of distraction
New York Magazine has published a long article by Sam Anderson on “Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama
From The Noisy Channel
Waiting for the Big Bing
Everyone is talking about Bing today–well, everyone who isn’t too busy watching Google do the Wave. If you haven’t been paying attention, Microsoft is about to...
From Putting People First
CGAP podcast with Jonathan Donner of Microsoft Research India
Leading up to the 2009 Mobile Money Summit CGAP, an independent policy and research centre dedicated to advancing financial access for the world’s poor, is running...
From Putting People First