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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
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Bikes
Squid Bikes is a California brand. Article from Velo News. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Blog on Technet
Introduced rather late to this. Looks to be a good resource. Most recently: " ... Microsoft’s Machine Learning technology got a bit of press coverage in the past...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executives Understanding Emerging Technogy
I spent years explaining emerging technology to the C-Suite. So this article in CIO Insight reminded me of the complexity involved. We also worked this during...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lufthansa Outsources to IBM
In Reuters: Pointing to a $1.25 Billion agreement. With some mention of including some Watson based efforts.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering 'The Box'
In Innovation Excellence: Working inside the box. I like the idea. When we build models there are always constraints that specify 'a box' we operate in. You...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Process Models
Was recently reminded of some acronym based processes. Which are easy to remember, but also a little too cute. Notable and used in design is ADDIE: Analysis,....
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Back to Product Sampling
A long time emphasis, being renewed. Trial is a powerful method." ... Procter & Gamble – the world’s biggest advertiser – is placing a renewed focus on product...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Communicating with Brands
Just how do consumers want to communicate with brands? " ... Some brand communication practices — such as sending useful information or tailored emails based on...
From Schneier on Security
Economic Failures of HTTPS Encryption
Interesting paper: "Security Collapse of the HTTPS Market." From the conclusion: Recent breaches at CAs have exposed several systemic vulnerabilities and market...
From Schneier on Security
"Cooperating with the Future"
This is an interesting paper -- the full version is behind a paywall -- about how we as humans can motivate people to cooperate with future generations. Abstract...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping with Large Scale Touch Screens
E-Bay and so called 'Magic Mirror' systems in retail. We tested the idea extensively. Technology has continued to improve. See the tag shelf virtualization for...
From Putting People First
Why the world needs anthropologists – an update
Why the world needs anthropologists – Coming out of the ivory tower Location: Padua, Italy, Centro Culturale Altinate/San Gaetano Date and time: Friday, 5 December...
From Putting People First
Deep dive into drinking occasions
Five years into his role as head of strategic insights at Heineken UK, Mick Doran believes that the brewing industry is learning valuable lessons from other FMCG...
From Putting People First
Are we viewing consumers as humans?
Underneath all the shopping, online searching, and purchasing is a human being who takes a particular action for very personal reasons, writes Jure Klepic in The...
From Putting People First
Intel, Tony Salvador, and design anthropology
Why would Intel need to conduct a tremendous amount of ethnographic research if all they are manufacturing are microchips? This short essay by Ioanis Hristodoulou...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Cornell CS at 50
Plus a long-promised discussion on diagonalization TRUST security source Dexter Kozen has been on the faculty of computer science at Cornell for almost 30 of the...
From Schneier on Security
New Snowden Documents Show GCHQ Paying Cable & Wireless for Access
A new story based on the Snowden documents and published in the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung shows how the GCHQ worked with Cable & Wireless -- acquired...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causality for Policy Assessment and Impact Analysis
From BayesiaLab. Nicely done live recorded lecture. To get the full extensive tutorial you need to register. The video is open without registrationNew Video...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking More Humane Computing
IBM’s Brad Becker, chief design officer for Watson on the ‘More Humane’ Promise of Cognitive Computing, in a very thought provoking interview with Knowledge@Wharton...
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