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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
AmazonFail = TaxonomyFail?
By now, #amazonfail seems like old news (yesterday’s detwitus?), though apparently Amazon’s PR folks are still doing damage control. But what intrigues me was something...
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Booking it to the Finish Line
To my delight–not to mention the delight of my family, colleagues, and publisher–I’m almost done with the book! I went into this project suspecting that book writing...
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Booking it to the Finish Line
To my delight–not to mention the delight of my family, colleagues, and publisher–I’m almost done with the book! I went into this project suspecting that book writing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality for Research
In Brandweek: A good overview of work that is underway in a number of companies. These methods " ... are now standard for the larger packaged goods firms like Procter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM New Intelligence Video : Analytics
The IBM Smarter Planet program has a short video: New Intelligence, which is a good promotional piece for analytical methods. They seem to imply they inventedTheir...
From Wild WebMink
Friday links on April 17
If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality Well yes. This is the reason why, no matter how cool it may be to buy electronic books, the Kindle...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Shelf Labels, Again
More on Electronic Shelf Labels. I studied the issue of electronic shelf labels (ESL) nearly a decade ago and participated in several tests. If you have not looked...
From CSDiary
Dave Andersen
It is now well-known that power is a big problem for operating large data centers. Companies pay huge amounts of money for the energy to power and cool their server...
From Putting People First
Global usability organisation embraces design
In December last year, the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) organised its first European conference in Turin, Italy, with a focus on the connection between...
From Putting People First
Persuasive design for sustainability
Jeremy Faludi has compiled — in an article for Core77 00 a synthesis of the work of Stanford lecturer and researcher BJ Fogg on the field of persuasive design,...
From Putting People First
Three environmental discourses in human-computer interaction
Elizabeth Goodman of the UC Berkeley School of Information made a presentation on the past and future of environmental issues and HCI at the recent CHI conference...
From insideHPC
Is Parallel Programming
Dr. Guy Blelloch of Carnegie Mellon University has written an article for the folks at CilkArts analyzing why parallel programming seems to be more difficult than...
From insideHPC
Timeline-O-Bo
Douglas Eadline at Linux Magazine has written up an interesting summary of news posts regarding the recent history of Silicon Graphics’ CEO, Bo Ewald.
From The Noisy Channel
Enterprise Search is Green
While I’m all for eco-friendly goods and services, I don’t usually think of my work as helping to save the environment. But this post from Vivisimo Chief Scientist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smells Like in a Billion Bucks
In Fast Company. A teaser of an insider's look into Procter and what it takes to be a billion dollar brand. Check out the bizarre Old Spice site, it's not your...
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The Craft of Exploratory Search
Posts like this one from Gene Golovchinsky make me feel sad that I didn’t actually attend CHI, though I’m glad I did get to hang out with the exploratory search...
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The Craft of Exploratory Search
Posts like this one from Gene Golovchinsky make me feel sad that I didn’t actually attend CHI, though I’m glad I did get to hang out with the exploratory search...
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CACM Article on DB/IR
In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the...
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