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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
AT&T Launches Domestic Internet of Things
In GigaOM: Have been looking for ways that the internet can be more generally and systematically brought into the physical home. For home control and communications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wireless Charging
Have been waiting for this for a long time. A look at the status of the state of wireless charging in Computing Now. First to be seen for mobile devices. ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Projects Outside Core Mission
Vic Uzumeri wrote about an interesting idea:I've been working on a project management concept for organizations that need periodic "side projects", but have difficulty...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data Congressional Hearing
On April 24, 2013, Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation...
From Schneier on Security
Cryptanalyst on British Postage Stamps
A 92-year-old World War II Bletchley Park codebreaker has had a set of commemorative stamps issued in his honor.
From My Biased Coin
Thanks for the Memories....
I'm off to a meeting next week, so today was my last day of class for Computer Science 124 (Algorithms and Data Structures) for the semester. For two reasons,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Obsessions with Causation
We are pattern matching animals. Looking for repeatable causes to find leading indicators to ultimately protect ourselves from dangers, or provide us with opportunities...![Jan-Christoph Zoels on interfaces at UNStudio during Milan Design Week [video]](/system/assets/0000/1953/030209_Vanderbeeken_Mark_250.small_square.jpg?1476779420&1260281963)
From Putting People First
Jan-Christoph Zoels on interfaces at UNStudio during Milan Design Week [video]
Jan-Christoph Zoels, an Experientia founding partner, was one of the panelists at the UNStudio Platform Dialogues during the Milan Design Week and a video of his...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data for Doctors
In CW World: Mining for patterns in health care cases. The trick may well be to provide the right architecture to mine in. And it does need to be patient,...
From Putting People First
Steampunking interaction design and other Interaction Magazine articles
Interactions Magazine is no longer the influential voice in the interaction design community that it used to be a few years ago. Lots of the reason why has to do...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppers Want Mobile Empowerment
On the Need for Mobile: " ... While American and European shoppers show little interest in purchasing groceries through mobile devices, a survey by Symphony EYC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Mind Shifts
Via Josh Bernoff: yes, have seen this in my own behavior, and its not just about retail. I now look everything up, including information about what I encounter...
From Schneier on Security
Random Links on the Boston Terrorist Attack
Encouraging poll data says that maybe Americans are starting to have realistic fears about terrorism, or at least are refusing to be terrorized. Good essay byapologizes...
From Putting People First
Video online of Milan debate: “The Long View of Interaction Design”
The people behind the upcoming IxDA Interaction14 conference organized on 6 April a panel discussion in Milan on the “Long View of Interaction Design”. 5 panelists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pingage Supports Pinterest
In BizJournals: Cincinnati based startup Pingage provides analytics support for Pinterest. " ... Three Procter & Gamble brands are among the first to try out the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
You probably shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work
Following the Reinhart-Rogoff case, where famous scientists go formulas wrong in the Excel spreadsheet that supported their research, a lot of people commented...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science of Facebook
In the Wolfram Blog A very interesting article on data visualization of anonymized contributed Facebook data. " ... Over the decades I’ve been steadily accumulating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Exposure Index
Useful, measurement accurate and comparable indices are always useful. " ... Risk Exposure Index Starting to Gain Traction, Change Supply Chain Thinking, David...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Seven Computer Scientists Named Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Seven computer scientists were recently named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old national honorary society of leaders...
From Schneier on Security