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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
Africa Gathering in London
Today was the Africa Gathering in London and ICT4D, an Austrian NGO dealing with ICT for development, has done an excellent job at summarising them: Summaries 1...
From Putting People First
Keeping it real: Interaction in the real world
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), is all devoted...
From Putting People First
European Commission launches public consultation on design as a driver of user-centred innovation
Yesterday, the European Commission launched a public consultation on design and innovation on the basis of a recent Commission staff working document on “Design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moral Instinct and Norman Borlaug
I was pointed to an item in the NYT by Steven Pinker on Moral instinct which points to Norman Borlaug. Name sounded familiar but did not register. The article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BrandImage Shines
An interesting design project which also includes olfactory presence and design by Brandimage
From insideHPC
Spansion packs a whole lotta RAM into your
Early this week flash memory vendor Spansion announced its EcoRAM solution, a product that lets you cram 512 GB of flash memory that presents as RAM to an Opteron...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Cybersecurity Review Complete; Public Announcement Expected Soon
The Obama Administration recently finished a 60-day review of federal cybersecurity efforts. Melissa Hathaway, Acting White House Cyberspace Director, indicated...
From The Noisy Channel
Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
If you’re attending the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week, please let me know! I’ll be there all day Monday and Tuesday, and I’ll be talking...
From The Noisy Channel
Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
If you’re attending the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week, please let me know! I’ll be there all day Monday and Tuesday, and I’ll be talking...
From The Noisy Channel
Book Writing vs. Blogging
When I announced that I’d be writing a book, I promised that I would blog about the experience. It may seem odd that I’m only blogging about it now, when I’m almost...
From The Noisy Channel
Book Writing vs. Blogging
When I announced that I’d be writing a book, I promised that I would blog about the experience. It may seem odd that I’m only blogging about it now, when I’m almost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytics API Launched
It was brought to my attention that the Google Analytics API was recently launched. Will take a close look. Much more here.
From insideHPC
InsideTrack: rumors of other bidders for
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours…here’s what I’m hearing about companies sniffing around SGI and looking at the potential of bidding against Rackable. Cisco...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising Yourself
From Knowledge@Wharton: Advertising Yourself: Building a Personal Brand through Social Networks. " ... According to Jonah Berger, Wharton marketing professor, using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fortune 500 Blogging
From SNCR, research results on corporate blogging and its use with other social media.Authors Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Research Chair of"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geocities Gone
Geocities, the oldest free web site community, is gone. It was fifteen years old. Quite a few web-years. Like the article says, I had forgotten it still existed...
From The Noisy Channel
Slight Change to the HCIR
I hope you all are gearing up for HCIR 2009! Those who have not yet read the call for participation or looked at the web site can safely ignore this message, which...
From The Noisy Channel
Slight Change to the HCIR
I hope you all are gearing up for HCIR 2009! Those who have not yet read the call for participation or looked at the web site can safely ignore this message, which...
From insideHPC
6 core istanbul moves forward to
We’re hearing this in several places, but The Register’s Timothy Prickett Morgan has an overview of AMD’s schedule acceleration on the new Opterons AMD is picking...
From insideHPC