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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 My Biased Coin
Harvard CS Is Hiring
Tenure Track Position Open. Here's the official blurb:Tenure-track Position in Computer ScienceThe Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks...
From Putting People First
‘Smart City’ planning needs the right balance (WSJ)
In the pantheon of Next Big Thing trends, the concept of “smart cities” is one of the trendiest, writes Ben Rooney in the Wall Street Journal. The idea is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emerging Technologies Reshape Data Center
I had a conversation just the other day with an enterprise center manager. Ever since the emergence of mobile, the complexity of issues like data security hasDiscussed...
From The Noisy Channel
Office Hours at Cambridge Brewing Company
I’ll be in Cambridge, MA this Thursday and Friday for the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2012). Hope to see many...
From Schneier on Security
Scary iPhone Malware Story
This story sounds pretty scary: Developed by Robert Templeman at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indiana and a few buddies from Indiana University, PlaceRader...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 October 2012
Well it’s a new month. It’s been about three weeks in this location (for the blog) and I sure do appreciate how many people stuck with me over the move. Seems like...
From Putting People First
How to design mental models that create a superior user experience
Leanne Byrom, a freelance UX practitioner and UX lead for Phosphor Digital, writes about the importance of mental models in UX design: Designing something right...
From Putting People First
Mass persuasion, one user at a time
Nir Eyal writes how marketers are increasingly personalizing their products and services to meet their customers’ changing needs, and how customization used in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Ecosystems
In GigaOM: On the value of geographical mapping ecosystems. And why Apple took a risk with it's update of the iPhone maps. Is the move similar to the half-baked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Mapping Tutorial
A reference to a tutorial by Steve Dotto for doing mind mapping. We used it often in the enterprise to define, understand and reference the operations of the business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Case for Abolishing Patents
In the Atlantic: No doubt they are a mess. Though many have invested so much in them that it will be a very tough task. I have seen both truly phenomenal and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Bundles Analytic Database
SAP has bundled the IQ database with its analytics offerings, seeking to establish an easier to use and less risky adoption process for companies. " ... SAP announced...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Why We Lose Sleep Some Nights
Is the end of the world uncomfortably close? src Derek de Solla Price created scientometrics, which is “the science of measuring and analyzing science.” You can...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tears of Steel
The Blender Foundation's all open source short movie: Tears of Steel is now out and available. On their site and on YouTube. Is this the future of film?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loss of Web History
I did several projects to look at corporate history in the enterprise as it addressed computing technology, and found the Internet Archive a useful resource. Yet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Symmetrical Faces
Are apparently more influential. I recall that there have been studies to use this idea in advertising. Reference? The site has some striking examples. A commenter...
From Putting People First
Book: Doing Design Ethnography
Doing Design Ethnography By Andrew Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield, Peter Tolmie Springer Publishers – Human-Computer Interaction Series March 2012, 212 pages (Amazon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text Analytics News
A newsletter that looks interesting on text analytics methods. Sign up for their briefing here. " ... We have compiled a 3000 word briefing on realizing true...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Shows Roadmap
Correspondent Michael Curran of Micro Industries, a company we used extensively for in-store displays, posts about Intel's Developer's forum, which I do not normally...
From The Eponymous Pickle