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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
World
More than half the world’s population now pay to use a mobile phone and nearly a quarter use the internet, according to an ITU report, as reported by Associated...
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Ericsson and mobile communications in Africa
Ericsson is getting active in African mobile communications and it’s worth checking out what they are up to (even though they don’t prove much, despite the title...
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Microsoft
Microsoft has created a virtual personal assistant that can build a relationship with its user. “Meet Laura, the virtual personal assistant for those of us who...
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Mapping a new, mobile internet
Business Week reports on how a nascent industry involving the likes of Google and Nokia is pinpointing the movements and behaviors of millions of cell-phone users...
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Washing Machine Model
An example of a washing machine designed for the third world. A few years ago I was part of a panel for the World Bank that judged investment in inventions like...
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Japan
The Mainichi Daily News, the English-language news site of Japan’s Mainichi Newspapers, is reporting today that the new earth simulator is available for gazing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The missing research tool
I want to know when a new research paper… is similar to one of my papers; cites one of my papers; is relevant to my current research. Why can’t I have this...
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Sociogeek survey presentation at LIFT09
Daniel Kaplan, CEO of the Fing Foundation, presented a quite unique way — a game — to conduct an online survey during a short open stage talk at the 2009 LIFT conference...
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KashKlash booklet now online
After the project, the collaborative website, the game, now also the booklet. KashKlash is an open forum and web project focusing on alternative economies in a...
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Ubiquitous human computing will transcend geography
In an interview with Nokia’s IdeasProject renowned cyberlaw scholar Jonathan Zittrain talks about how ubiquitous human computing, which he describes as the ability...
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Ethan Zuckerman on mobile news and mobile currency in Africa
Ethan Zuckerman, a multifaceted thinker whose work focuses on the impact of technology in developing countries, and a research fellow at the Berkman Center for...
From insideHPC
Comparing Instanbul and
Found at Multicoreinfo.com In well threaded applications, the best a
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Real-time connections are
In an interview with Nokia’s IdeasProject, social media innovator Laura Fitton talks about the most basic of human connections: our immediate physical community...
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Profiling MPI applications using Sun
From Sun’s HPC Watercooler Sun’s Yukon Maruyama and Marty Itzkowitz have published an
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Carlo Ratti, Dan Hill and Anne Galloway on the
One of the best sessions of the entire LIFT conference took place on Thursday afternoon. As half of the world is now living in cities, it’s undeniable that the...
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Ramesh Srinivasan and Juliana Rotich on the power of local innovation at LIFT
Solidarity was the first afternoon theme of the LIFT conference. One of the subtle change in the last fifteen years revolves around how collective action and solidarity...
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Nicolas Nova and David Rose on change at LIFT
The entire morning of the first day of the LIFT conference was devoted to change. I selected a few presentations here that I found personally most stimulating. Note...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Copyright and Songsmith
On the death of copyright by capabilities like Microsoft Research's Songsmith. The article considers the further legal implications of the Web and copyright.
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