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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 insideHPC
Rackable lays off
Joe Landman alerted us to the weight reduction plan at Rackable following a Q4 sales downturn. From the story at El Reg Going public has not been as much fun for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Planet Blog
I just discovered IBM's Building a Smarter Planet Blog: Instrumented, Interconnected, Intelligent. Which was started up last November. Following.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Data
An example of Steganography, which hides data. While encryption " ... obscures the meaning of a message, but it does not conceal the fact that there is a message...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics
I have played in the space of analytic modeling for thirty years. It surprised me about five years ago when I was approached by people saying that they planned...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Claremont report on database research
Every few years, the database research community prepares reports listing the most promising research directions. The previous one was called the Lowell report,...
From Putting People First
People-centric sensing in the city of the near future
More on people-centric sensing, this time by LIFT’s Fabien Girardin, and it’s as if he is taking the Nokia paper I just wrote about one step further: “In the past...
From Putting People First
Sensing the world with mobile devices
The Nokia Research Center published a short paper on participatory mobile sensing that I like very much because of its human-centred approach: By putting mobile...
From Springenwerk Blog
Barcode Recognition with Google's ZXing on the Mac with TIFF Support
Have you checked out Google's great open source barcode recognition library called ZXing ("zebra crossing")? It's really powerful, free and (halfway) platform independent...
From Putting People First
Experientia and European research projects
Experientia is currently planning to participate in a number of European research projects, and is looking for partners and interesting collaboration opportunities...
From Putting People First
Indian usability conference tackled digital divide and user experience design
As part of the World Usability Day 2008, the Department of Information Technology at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (V.I.I.T.), Pune (India) hosted...
From Putting People First
Interfaces Magazine
Thanks to Vodafone’s Anxo Cereijo-Roibas, I just discovered Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the...
From Putting People First
This is iQ
Matthew Neal contacted me today about a design challenge Toyota recently gave to students at the Royal College of Art London to create a household item that represents...
From Putting People First
Interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo
Peter Merholz, President of Adaptive Path, has published the first part of an interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo....
From Putting People First
Seeing other people
Social networking has become an integral part of our lives, but how much say will users have in what they do with social networking and what it looks like? This...
From Putting People First
IBM research on the use of social software in the workplace
Both Penny Edwards (Headshift) and Bill Ives (Fast Forward) report on recent IBM research on social software in the marketplace: To what extent does your company...
From Putting People First
Don
I find articles with titles like this difficult to digest. What if you are under 30? And especially if the article is filled with banalities - partly put in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lindstrom, Buyology Inc and Brand Image
I attended Martin Lindstrom's talk at Brand Image in Cincinnati today. This was the third time I had been in on Lindstrom presentations. He pointed out that much...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Beauty of Computing is Not in Problem Solving
As part of a recent discussion on the Rebooting Computing listserv Rosemary Michelle Simpson made the following comments in response to a discussion about the discovering...
From insideHPC