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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
Demand Planning Secrets of P&G
A recent video and talk by former colleagues. Hardly secrets, which is what the CGT title boasts, but worth looking at for all practitioners of the science and...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Edited Audio
Interesting development in forensic analysis: Comparing the unique pattern of the frequencies on an audio recording with a database that has been logging these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Super Networking
Been reading in recent Inc Mag articles recently and found this one by Scott Gerber that was on point. Answering the question: How to I become a value added networker...
From Wild WebMink
Samba 4 As Anti-Trust Remedy
Has Microsoft got a problem? The extensive new features in Samba 4 make it a viable, license-free, security-certified alternative to Active Directory, and make...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking You
I have seen this many times, you shop or search for something online and you start to get lots of offers for more information. In the WSJ: How they Know What you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eliminating the Middleman
A way to broker college courses directly from professors to the student. So whats a college for? " .... In yet another step toward democratizing higher education...
From Schneier on Security
Drone Flights Over the US
The EFF has been prying data out of the government and analyzing it.
From Putting People First
Helsinki Design Lab: an interview with Brian Boyer
Bryan Boyer is the Strategic Design Lead at SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund. SITRA is a prominent example of a public institution that has embraced a design...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Call for Proposals Annual CSTA Conference 2013
This call for proposals for the 2012 Annual CSTA Conference went out to members of the Computer Science Teachers Association this week. One doesn’t have to be a...
From Putting People First
They know what you’re shopping for
Companies today are increasingly tying people’s real-life identities to their online browsing habits. Research conducted by the Wall Street Journal on the practices...
From Putting People First
Can reputation come down to a number?
The idea of a unified reputation currency is starting to take hold online, writes Josh Klein in the blog of the Harvard Business Review. “With broad agreement that...
From Putting People First
On Digital Ethnography: mapping as a mode of data discovery
While digital ethnography is an established field within ethnography, we don’t often hear of ethnographers building digital tools to conduct their fieldwork. Wendy...
From Putting People First
Welcome to 2020 and 2030
Business Technology 2020 Human-like technology. The potential downfall of the data center. Hyper-personalization of data. These are some of the responses IT leaders...
From Putting People First
Are we becoming cyborgs?
Also the New York Times is turning up the cyborg theme, but luckily more intelligently than CNN. All the technology and internet use has changed how we interact...
From Putting People First
Designing a carsharing service that can play a truly relevant role in people’s lives
Brand experience agency edenspiekermann_ and Volkswagen’s Service Innovation Team explored what it takes to define a service that would play a relevant role in...
From Putting People First
Time for a digital hat rack
Though hats have long gone out of fashion, the custom should be a guide for how we adapt to the increasing pervasiveness of personal technology. It’s high time,...
From Putting People First
The “strange” profession of the cyborg anthropologist
CNN features a long article about the unusual new profession of the cyborg anthropologist – featuring a robot hand photo for good measure. But reading the article...
From Putting People First
A short film that explores trends in UI, Interaction & Experience Design
The 18 minute “Connecting” documentary, created by Bassett & Partners for Windows Phone Design Studio, is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and...
From Putting People First
A new Behavioural Design Lab in the UK
The Warwick Business School and the UK Design Council have launched the world’s first Behavioural Design Lab. The lab aims to bring together the power of design...
From Putting People First