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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
Targeted Data Science
In GigaOM: Still not convinced that it is the sheer wealth of of data that is driving the big data science movement. Are there are any new analytic methods that...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Why Is There Something?
And is there everything? not the src Jim Holt is the author of the modestly titled book, Why Does The World Exist? He has—as his book’s back cover says—written...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Recognition Glasses
Its natural to think of wearable augmented reality glasses including a facial recognition system. But apparently Google has no plans to include such software at...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Highlights from Congressional Briefing on Patent Litigation Reform
The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee yesterday held a panel discussion on “If Patent Litigation Is Strangling High Tech Innovation, When Will Congress...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Pronouns
The translated version of a Spanish menu contains the entry "squids in his (her, your) ink." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Working With Google Spreadsheets Data Directly
On Wednesday I talked about assigning numbers to my princess-and-dragon story. I have all my data in an easily parsable format in a Google Spreadsheet. I decided...
From Writing
10 recipes for turning imperative Java code into functional Scala code
At LinkedIn, we've started to use the Play Framework, which supports not only Java, but also Scala. Many teams have opted to write their apps in Scala, so I'veworks...
From Putting People First
How Obama used ‘Ethnography Project’ to defeat Mitt Romney in 2012
Ken Walsh reports on how Team Obama made an unprecedented effort to understand the voters and speak their language, slicing and dicing the electorate with a sophistication...
From Putting People First
Smart cities and smart citizens
For future smart cities to thrive, it must be centred around people, not just infrastructure. This was the overwhelming message from a group of influential thinkers...
From Putting People First
The art of staying focused in a distracting world
James Fallows of The Atlantic interviewed tech-industry veteran Linda Stone, coiner of the term “continuous partial attention,” on how to maintain sanity and focus...
From Schneier on Security
The Rise of Amateurs Recording Events
Interesting article on a greatly increased aspect of surveillance: "the ordinary citizen who by chance finds himself in a position to record events of great public...
From Putting People First
The city as interface: an interview with Manuel Portela
Hillete Warner of The Enabling City, an initiative started and guided by the very inspiring Chiara Camponeschi, interviewed interaction designer and an event coordinator...
From Putting People First
How to design for the gut?
Visceral design is the key to creating experiences people can’t get enough of. Game designers and mobile app developers have done a great job of leveraging visceral...
From Putting People First
Are you ready for the era of Big Data?
Business agrees with governments — the more personal information they gather about us, the more “helpful” they can be. Should we give in to this “harmless” new...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Smart Glasses
Its not all about the Google Glass idea. The notion of head-wearable, camera enabled augmented reality is being promoted by a number of vendors. Metaio reports...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Personal Clouds
Controlling your own data, is this a great idea? Prompted by data ownership issues and speed in conventional clouds. Only a limited specialty concern?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithms that Writes Books
In Mashable: We have a huge compendium of knowledge on the web, some public, some private, some hidden. It has always seemed to me there are ways to integrate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Service Design
I like the idea of visualization of design. Its very natural for most people to think this way. Add it to a presentation and you will capture their attention....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Statement on House Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearing on U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council today submitted the following statement to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade for the hearing on the U.S.-EU Transatlantic...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog