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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
Internet psychologists study how the Web affects us
In a pretty short period of time, the internet has changed how we take care of our basic needs, stand up for ourselves, and talk to each other. But psychologists...
From Putting People First
The last-mile problem: How data science and behavioral science can work together
Analytics is typically discussed in terms of computer technology, machine learning algorithms, and big data. Behavioral nudges, on the other hand, concern human...
From Putting People First
The anthropology of the Quantified Self
increasing penetration of data into the domain of the “personal” and to the management and care of the self suggest that something is afoot in how the self is understood...
From Putting People First
The startup “that helps companies fix their user experience problems”
Davey Alba explains in Wired how UserTesting runs an online panel of over 1 million testers—volunteers mostly—who can test products and other company materials...
From Putting People First
The rise of the Chief Behavioral Officer
After the Chief Experience Officer, the new trendy job title from corporate America is the Chief Behavioral Officer: “Dan Egan of the automated investing service...
From Putting People First
Privacy and human behavior in the age of information
Privacy and human behavior in the age of information Alessandro Acquisti, Laura Brandimarte and George Loewenstein (of Carnegie Mellon University) Science 30 January...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Complex Event Processing
In Statupfocus: Brought to my attention by a colleague. who is working with SAP Hana. This lays out the reasons for dealing with more and more complex events.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Large Squid Washes up on Greek Beach
No mention of the species, but the photo is a depressing one. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
From Schneier on Security
Co3 Systems Is Expanding into Europe
This was supposed to be a secret until the middle of February, but we've been found out. We already have European customers; this is our European office. And, by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharing Data is Crucial
Something we knew for a long time. This often also requires the expertise available to make the case that sharing data is valuable for both parties. That alone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Networks as Expert Systems
Modeling causal reasoning is a favorite topic for me. Bayesia has posted another easy to understand demo of how a Bayesian network can be used to model a system...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bill Gates on Dangers of AI
In the Wash Post. He makes some good points about the need for concern. He points to work by MS on personal agents. And warns: " ... I think we should be very...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Working Ontologist
Had reason to go back and look at ontologies and semantic web solutions, first I had since 2008. See the Working Ontologist site. Thought not recently updated...
From Schneier on Security
Operating a Fake Bank
Here's a story of a fake bank in China -- a real bank, not an online bank -- that stole $32m from depositors over a year. Pro tip: real banks never offer 2%/week...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless Cars and Traffic
Design and Efficiency. Some simulation work seems to show that driverless cars would make traffic worse. Early thought assumed that cars could travel closer together...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unified Decision Processes Drive with Data
At the Webinar today from Innovation Excellence by Julie Anixter on Big Data and New Product development, Maor Gershoni and Tom Davenport highlighted the work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke to Open Innovation Center at GA Tech
Coke and Ga Tech start Center in Atlanta. A favorite topic in these pages. We established innovation centers starting in 2001. As places to provide the infrastructure...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdflower Crowdsourcing
I was asked to take a look at Crowdflower in order to construct a database of HR data. Previously we had used Mechanical Turk for a related need. To provide...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Ideas Track Held at AAAI-15
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored another track in its Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track series at the 29th Association for the Advancement of Article...
From The Eponymous Pickle