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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Open Power Foundation Announcements
Attended a set of presentations and announcements on the Open Power Foundation yesterday. Sponsored by IBM and included a number of other corporate participants...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Innovation Fails
In Innovation Excellence: Unfortunately it does. Fairly frequently too. The number kicked around for band innovation true success is often 10%. So we have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Organization: Scarcest Resource
Via Bain and Company, from the HBR: Meetings, thinking time, useful connections, human resources. In general we make poor use of them and many new things are...
From Schneier on Security
Is Google Too Big to Trust?
Interesting essay about how Google's lack of transparency is hurting their trust: The reality is that Google's business is and has always been about mining as much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Vocabulary
Fascinating piece on ClickZ: Truth and vocabulary and the meaning for understanding the consumer. A lot of truth is embedded here about measurement and the resulting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WalMart to Go Concept
Wal-Mart's To Go concept. Opens a new kind of consumer behavior to them. And new data. Consider the implications, and the analytics.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Google Maps for History
We had thought of using time serial maps for history, now I see that Google maps plans to do something similar. Can we ultimately do this generally for the earth...
From Putting People First
My digital shadow
The surveillance program PRISM by the US secret service NSA has reminded us that all of our activities online may be monitored without giving us the chance to understand...
From Putting People First
The Qualified Self and Affective Sensing
The people at frog design have been exploring sensing technologies and their impact on the human experience. Two interesting articles are the result: The Qualified...
From Putting People First
Smart cities need smart citizens
The idea of the SMARTiP project is to take the experience developed by a wide range of existing user-driven, open innovation initiatives in Europe, particularly...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do you realize that you are using random hashing?
Hashing is a common concept in programming. It is the process of mapping any object to an integer. It is used in fast search algorithms (like Rabin-Karp) and in...
From Putting People First
Johan Blomkvist’s doctoral thesis on prototyping in service design
Representing Future Situations of Service Prototyping in Service Design by Johan Blomkvist Linköping Studies in Arts and Science Doctoral Dissertation Human-Centred...
From Putting People First
User experience is the new differentiator. How will that affect the internet?
The world of business is changing, as are the locations of the people who are driving that business. How companies reach new users and how they treat them once...
From Putting People First
Ethnography, magpies, shiny things, and parallel worlds
Three posts by Simon Roberts (?) explore the rise, fall and possible futures of ethnography in commercial settings. Ethnography, magpies and shiny things The first...
From Putting People First
How Facebook uses UX research to personalize the way we see each other
Facebook recently made profiles more “contextual” on their iOS app, writes John Paul Titlow in Fast Company. That means that like Google searches or other personalized...
From Schneier on Security
Conversnitch
Surveillance is getting cheaper and easier: Two artists have revealed Conversnitch, a device they built for less than $100 that resembles a lightbulb or lamp and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Marketing
Late on this, but useful thoughts: " .. This holiday season will likely bring another rise in cost-per-click prices. However, marketers shouldn't forget their...
From Schneier on Security
The Security of Various Programming Languages
Interesting research on the security of code written in different programming languages. We don't know whether the security is a result of inherent properties of...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Upcoming Bootstrap Workshops
From the CSTA announcement list. Bootstrap is a curricular module for students ages 12-16, which teaches algebraic and geometric concepts through computer programming...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog