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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 Schneier on Security
Common Risks in America: Cars and Guns
I have long said that driving a car is the most dangerous thing regularly do in our lives. Turns out deaths due to automobiles are declining, while deaths due to...
From Putting People First
Case study: Service innovation in the public sector
Case study: Service innovation in the public sector Service Design Network site This case study is based on a series of public sector projects commissioned by the...
From Putting People First
Videos online of Service Design Global Conference 2014
On 7-8 October around 650 global thought leaders and practitioners from sectors such as hospitality, insurance, retail, telecommunications, finance, IT and healthcare...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Moments of Truth with Google
I recall that we introduced Google to the moment of truth mantra, and they popularized the zero aspect. Just now in Thinking With Google, a collection of their...
From Schneier on Security
3-1-1 for Encryption
An excellent idea: 311 for encryption. RSA, DSA, and ECDSA must be 3.4 ounces (100bits) or less per container; must be in 1 quart-sized, clear, plastic, zip-top...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Application of Natural Language
Natural language, our use of communications like text and speech and documents to communicate with other people, would be the ideal way to communicate with computers...
From Computational Complexity
The Impact Factor Disease
The Institute of Science Information (ISI) was founded in 1960 to help index the every growing collection of scientific journals. The founder of ISI, Eugene Garfield...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Surface Pro 3 – First Thoughts
Thanks to a contest run by the Office Mix people I won a Surface Pro 3 for my school. And I get to use it which is great. I’ve had a Surface RT (first edition)TouchDevelop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Brokers are Watching You
In the CACM: " ... Digitization of analog data, along with advances in algorithms behind data analytics, has enabled a dramatic leap in the ability of data brokers...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Critical Resilient Infrastructure Systems and Processes
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) recently announced a new program called Critical Resilient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitively: How People Can and will Cooperate with Computers
Computers have already markedly changed the way we do work, in just a few decades. Three sources below that show how we are taking another major step forward,...
From Putting People First
Ezio Manzini’s introduction to design for social innovation
Design, When Everybody Designs – An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation By Ezio Manzini The MIT Press, 264 pages February 2015 In a changing world everyone...
From Schneier on Security
The Security of Data Deletion
Thousands of articles have called the December attack against Sony Pictures a wake-up call to industry. Regardless of whether the attacker was the North Korean...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snapchat and Showrooming
Did a long hands-on look in the early days of showrooming. See the tag below. Now some approaches in Adage where stores could use the ephemeral message service...
From Geeking with Greg
More on what to advertise when there is no commercial intent
Some of the advertising out there is getting spooky. If you look at a product at many online stores, that product will then follow you around the web. Go to BBC...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Knauff and Nejasmic recommend banning LaTeX
Two German psychology professors, Knauff and Nejasmic, recently published a paper on the benefits of Microsoft Word over LaTeX. The paper was reported in Nature...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Data Visualization
From FusionCharts: Big companies understand the value." ... In 2010, the company set itself the target of doubling its revenues in a decade or less – without doubling...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance Detection for Android Phones
It's called SnoopSnitch: SnoopSnitch is an app for Android devices that analyses your mobile radio traffic to tell if someone is listening in on your phone conversations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Instacart Fueling E-Commerce
This slogs along slowly, but we are finally seeing more interest in the idea. Informal polling of consumers in the early 2000s showed little interest. Now the...
From The Eponymous Pickle