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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsoring Challenges and Visions Track at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2013 Conference
The CCC is sponsoring another in its series of “Challenges and Visions” tracks as a Robotics Challenges and Vision workshop at the 9th Robotics: Science and Systems...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Do we lose intelligence and creativity as we grow older?
It was popular during the XXth century to say that most scientific discovery are done by young scientists (under 30). The implicit assumption was that the brain...
From Computational Complexity
Post Mordem on an April Fool's day joke
Recall that on April Fools Day I had a post about R(5) being discovered via a collaboration of Math and History. Many readers emailed me asking how many people...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 15 April 2013
Income taxes are due the end of the day today in the US. Thanks to computer software mine are done and in with a minimum of pain. It is amazing how much easierlearn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dieticians at the Supermarket
In AdAge: Good piece on another example of linking related expertise to the retail interaction. This may be an area where the personal touch could work well....
From Putting People First
Report: People Powered Health
People Powered Health: Health For People, By People and With People by Matthew Horne, Halima Khan and Paul Corrigan April 2013 – 58 pages NESTA, UK This report,...
From Putting People First
Right to erasure protects people’s freedom to forget the past, says expert
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger says the ability to forget our past, both on and offline, is an essential part of what makes us human. “The more I’ve worked on data protection...
From Putting People First
Does design thinking address quick fixes at the expense of root causes?
Does design thinking address quick fixes at the expense of root causes, asks John Thackara, referring to “Why the d.school has its limits,” a provocative article...
From Putting People First
Rx: Human nature
Why doesn’t a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception at a nearby clinic? What keeps people from using free chlorine...
From Putting People First
To Dwell Is To Garden: An empathic approach to employee experience design
Liana Dragoman writes on UX magazine about the role of experience design in employee empowerment. “It has become increasingly important for customer-focused organizations...
From Putting People First
Book: Interviewing Users (by Steve Portigal)
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal Rosenfeld Media To be published: early May 2013 Interviewing is a foundational user research...
From Schneier on Security
Google Glass Enables New Forms of Cheating
It's mentioned here: Mr. Doerr said he had been wearing the glasses and uses them especially for taking pictures and looking up words while playing Scattergories...
From The Eponymous Pickle
JC Penney and Pricing
Economist MJ Perry on the complexity and psychology of pricing. Referencing an NYT article: " ... how the “everyday low pricing” model at J.C. Penney’s seems to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling and Design
Good GigaOhm piece on sortytelling driving product design. Been in a number of design projects that have allowed us to start from simple panel, day in the life...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Kicking off a Series of Big Data Workshops
The White House will be hosting a Big Data Workshop on May 3, 2013. The workshop is sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the NITRD Big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diagramming Sentences and the Power of Morphology
The Language log Blog brings up diagramming sentences. Very familiar and mostly disliked activity in early education in the US. I remember being much intrigued...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ray Kurzweil's Life
In the WSJ: The intersection of the life of inventor Ray Kurzweil and health technology. Good to see. He is extrapolating some information about how life expectancy is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Organizations
Some good, very general thoughts on agile organizations and management. You are always dealing with changing context, so you have to be ready for it. But can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Tracking the VW Commercial
Sands Research provides a video of brain activation from their recent Superbowl ad study. Here the one from award winning ad: The Force by Volkswagen. Agency:...
From The Eponymous Pickle