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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
Designers Toolkit: Capturing research | Using video in research
Lauren Ruiz of Cooper in San Francisco has published two new instalments of the Designers Toolkit: A Primer On Capturing Research How you choose to conduct and...
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Experientia’s mini-doc for the UN’s International Labour Organization
The first destination: The path to decent work in rural economies Experientia’s short documentary for the UN’s International Labour Organization It’s always a pleasure...
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Has privacy become a luxury good?
Julia Angwin, a senior reporter at ProPublica, writes in the New York Times about how it takes a lot of money and time to avoid hackers and data miners. “In our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Recognition Apps for Glass
Facial recognition app that matches strangers to online profiles. " .... See someone on the train you'd like to date? NameTag, an upcoming app for Android, iOS...
From Putting People First
Reflecting on anthropology and design
A few weeks back I wrote that Rachel Carmen Ceasar (@rceasara) is running a short series on Savage Minds that features interviews with design researchers, ethnographic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Ads on Mobile
In ClickZ: This came up in a recent discussion about how video ads are particularly distracting. In fact how they give the implication that you are in the wrong...
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Big Data as Killer Cloud App
In GigaOM:Maybe big data is the killer app for Google’s cloudHadoop is popular and so is cloud computing, so it comes as no surprise that a battle would break out...
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Successful Applications of Customer Analytics
It has been a while since I have looked at the Wharton Customer analytics (WCAI) site. I had the pleasure to give several talks there. They are about to hold...
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Excel Tips
Despite all the new packages out there, you are going to have to deal with existing systems written in Excel. So it's very useful to understand how it works. ...
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Predicting Net Promoter Scores with Text Mining
Attended the UC data mining symposium a few weeks ago, will be posting some things of interest that came from that. A rep from SAS described work they had done...
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Drones are Joining the Robots in 3D
In IEEE Spectrum: The drone empire of the future? Robotics will, more commonly, be operating in 3D. " ... Small unmanned aerial vehicles are changing from toys...
From Computational Complexity
Why are there so few intemediary problems in Complexity? In Computability?
There are thousands of natural PC problems. Assuming P NE NP how many natural problems are there that are in NP-P but are NOT NPC? Some candidates are Factoring...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Workshop Report: Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Douglas H. Fisher, Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, and Associate Professor...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing at Lego
In Innovation Excellence: How Lego is using social crowdsourcing for engagement. Where the audience seems to be in control, with good effect. Of course Lego...
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Data Science Book
An introduction to Vincent Granville's new data science book. Worth a look, his work is usually very well done. Not available until April. " ... This book is...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Can Plants Do Arithmetic?
The computational power of plants Martin Howard and Alison Smith are research scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich, England. JIC was founded as...
From Geeking with Greg
More quick links
More of what caught my attention recently: Cool new tech, especially for mobile, detecting gesture movements from the changes they make to ambient wireless signals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Promising Privacy from Big Data
A promise is given to vet big data's impact on privacy. Will await the results.
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Automating Price Tracking
In Retailwire: An obvious thing that can be done online. Amazon, with its size and breadth, is the obvious target. How should they respond? " ... Amazon's...
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