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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
From nice view to amazing journey: UNstudio and Experientia transforming the observation wheel experience
Click on image to view slideshow This week, both Dezeen Magazine and Wired have featured articles about UNStudio’s design for the Nippon Moon, a Giant Observation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Core Blue
A former colleague of mine, Jeff Fenter, reports he has set up an effort called Core Blue. I like the approaches being used here, which mirror some of the work...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cards as the Future of the Web
Cards as design. An interesting challenge. Link contains lots of visual examples. I remember the card systems used on the Mac. Is this a a replay of that method...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Memories Can Recombine
It has been determined that our memories are less permanent and stable than we thought. Now research that shows memories can be combined to create new experiences...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Grocery Shopping
Called Instacart: Personal Shopping remains a narrow market. With crowdsourcing come quality assurance issues. " .... In contrast to the high overhead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Sought
Seth Godin pens a short item item being found versus being sought and how this is of particular interest in a mobile and social world.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Sandboxes
Sandbox as a UI. We did something related, but without sand. Touch interface. Created a sandbox workbench which implemented a retail design. This allowed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japanese Startup Culture
In FastCompany: Never involved with Japan startup culture, but have a number of times worked with their innovation world. Which I thought was strong, but had a"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Types of Analytics
Yet another view of categories of analytics, here Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive and Prescriptive. Adding diagnostic, which I have not typically added to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Videos for Learning R
Two popular videos from Stanford, for learning the statistical environment R. Reviewing now. Via Star Bridge Partners.
From Schneier on Security
My New PGP/GPG and OTR Keys
You can find my new PGP public key and my OTR key fingerprint here.
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post by Justin Thaler: A "Mini-Survey" of Practical Verification Algorithms
Justin Thaler, after presenting his most recent work on verifiable computation at Crypto, decided to write up a mini-survey on recent work in the area, and he offered...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Found Off the Coast of Spain
The incomplete specimen weighs over 160 lbs. And here's a map of squid spottings. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Payments, NFC and Apple
We carefully tracked the emergence of the short range radio frequency approach called NFC, to enable smart phone mobile payments. In Adage, speculation that Apple...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
2nd Anniversary Forum of the America Invents Act on September 16
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host the America Invents Act (AIA) Second Anniversary Forum on Monday, September 16, 2013, from 1-5 pm ET at the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personal Care Brands and Mobile
In Mobile Marketing: " ... Personal-care industry slow to embrace mobile-optimized selling --- Manufacturers of personal care products are opting for partnerships...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Advertising: Pay per Gaze
Paying per gaze, Paying per emotion, is it the future of advertising. Not impossible, but will detecting this kind of behavioral data be considered intrusive?
From Putting People First
Four new papers by anthropologist Brigitte Jordan
Brigitte Jordan, the legendary corporate anthropologist, once described as one of the “godmothers” of design ethnography, has posted four new papers on her website...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM