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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
New phone features
The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users frustrated and angry, research by Mformation (and reported by BBC) suggests. Some 61% of those interviewed...
From Springenwerk Blog
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Interface elements for jQuery - Documentation - Imagebox
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buyology Thinking
Fairly extensive look in ResearchTalk at the claims behind Buyology: Buyology: Sound Science or Wishful Thinking?. the final claim comes down to the well exercised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Would Google Do?
Steve Baker, author of The Numerati, which I reviewed takes a look at an upcoming book by Jeff Jarvis called What Would Google Do?
From insideHPC
BOXX Tech Releases Core i7
BOXX Technologies of Austin, TX has announced the release of its latest workstation series, the 3DBOXX 4850 Extreme.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A View of Twitter vs Linkedin
Always astute Jerry Michalski sends along a link to a very nice description of why Twitter is useful. Although I am still learning about this tool, I am becoming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Car Spamming
Via correspondent Richard James. We have long been promised the idea of networked automobiles, now this seems to be imminent. Though along with the concept may...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Still a men
I would like to start the January Blog by wishing you all a happy, healthy, and successful New Year! My name is Maria Knobelsdorf and I
From Putting People First
Itsme concept evaluation
Some months ago I wrote on Core77 about Itsme, a new “design-driven” way of organizing the contents of a PC, covering both the hardware and the software of the...
From Putting People First
Experience design for interactive products
Experience design for interactive products: designing technology augmented urban playgrounds for girls (pdf) is the long title of an interesting paper by Aadjan...
From CSDiary
Major Science Funding Called for in House Stimulus Plan
I’ve just finished a meeting of the NRC CSTB, held at Google in Mountain View. I shouldn’t say too much about what went on, but it’s worth noting that I detected...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling vs Order Taking
Correspondent Herb Sorensen of TNS-Sorensen has a great piece in his Views series about Selling vs Order Taking which links to the history of retail itself andwrote...
From CSDiary
Smiley Award: Call for Nominations
Nominations are due on January 31, 2009, for the second annual Smiley Award for innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication. Details can be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Use of Social Networks
IBM provides some interesting work in this area. I spoke to some of their people involved in this work last year and was impressed how they were leveraging all...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Resources for Addressing Equity Issues in 2009
As we begin a new year, we can only imagine what new technological innovations will be created this year that will change the way people live their lives. InGotta...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Irrational Product Placement
I am a late student to product placement. Around since 1896 when Sunlight Soap was featured in a number of Lumiere silent movies. A frame at the right. Here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Leads Patents
IBM Leads US patent count 16th year in a row, openly publishes patent innovations, seeking to "...balance open and proprietary innovation ... " .
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Science and Technology Have Piece of Stimulus Pie
While the stimulus has not been finalized, the House Appropriations Committee has circulated a summary of the major components. From the committee summary: Scientific...
From CSDiary
Tuomas Sandholm Named ACM Fellow
I’m writing today from the Google campus in Mountain View. However, the news today isn’t about Google — it’s about Tuomas Sandholm. The Association for Computing...
From insideHPC