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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 …
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Ottagono Magazine features Experientia
In the article “Interaction Design, After Ivrea” Stefano Mirti reflects on the history of the renowned Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and what was born out...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 4 November 2013
The big news were I live last week was the Red Sox winning the World Series. Nothing at all to do with computing. Even with all the excitement I managed to find...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Really Scary Thought
A scary question, a really scary question Vincent Price was just featured last Thursday night with a series of his movies, scary horror ones shown on Turner Classic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Essential Office Elements and Clouds
If we look at the triple of basic office tools: Word processing, spreadsheets and slideshows. its interesting to see the competitors today. Especially when we...
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Back to Robots for the IPad
Had cause to go back to the Robots for the iPad App, had not been there for some time. Its by the IEEE, does an excellent job of surveying a number of robot implementation...
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Managing Supply Chain Talent
Something we had a priority for. Something we also found to be one of the easiest kinds of talent to get outside because it is a mature idea in many industries...
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Ethnography: is your company missing the train?
Michael Ohler, Phil Samuel and Mark McMurray of BMGI argue in Industry Week that focusing on human behavior and personal experiences can help you discover unmet...
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[Book] Changing Behaviours: On the Rise of the Psychological State
Changing Behaviours: On the Rise of the Psychological State by Rhys Jones, Jessica Pykett and Mark Whitehead Edward Elgar Publishers 2013, 240 pages [Amazon link]...
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First Swedish PhD thesis in service design
Stakeholder Engagement for Service Design is the title of the first Swedish PhD thesis in service design. In the dissertation defended last week at Linköping University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tackling the Shopping List
A problem we worked on for years. The smart shopping list. Starting with a Blackberry implementation. And many others. But was that the best approach? A self...
From Apophenia
Keeping Teens ‘Private’ on Facebook Won’t Protect Them
(Originally written for TIME Magazine) We’re afraid of and afraid for teenagers. And nothing brings out this dualism more than discussions of how and when teens...
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Millennials and Their Devices
In Clomedia. Good piece. It has long been suggested that new generations are so used to new tech that they don't need to adapt to it at all. Often touted as ...
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Smart Homes Need Eyes
This GigaOM article comes to the same conclusion we did, that truly smart homes need to have integrated cameras, multiple sensors, with high speed image analysis...
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SAP, SAS and Big Data Analytics
Was an early user of SAS, but it has been a number of years now. A move to Big Data partnership with SAP: Nearly every major server vendor is a SAP HANA partner...
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New York Times book review of “Status Update”
Putting People First has been following the work of Alice E. Marwick for a while, first when she published her PhD dissertation, then when her book “Status Update”...
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Publication: Smart Citizens (by FutureEverything)
Smart Citizens Edited by Drew Hemment and Anthony Townsend Future Everything 2013, 96 pages This publication aims to shift the debate on the future of cities towards...
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Book: Social – Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by Matthew D. Lieberman Crown October 2013, 384 pages [Amazon link] Abstract In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew...
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Book: Smarter Than You Think
Smarter Than You Think How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For the Better by Clive Thompson and Jeff Cummings Penguin Press September 2013, 352 pages [Penguin...
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How technology changes storytelling
Long New York Times piece where writers in a variety of genres tell us what new technologies mean for storytelling. Contributions by Margaret Atwood, Charles Yu...
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