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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 Computational Complexity
Should we learn from the Masters or from the Pupils?
The following is a paraphrase of a comment at the end of the Suggested Readings section of Spivak's calculus book: Abel remarked that he attributed his profound...
From Wild WebMink
“Fair Use” Robots Are Science Fiction
The black-out of the Hugo Awards by a “robot” that thought the clip of Doctor Who shown just before Neil Gaiman spoke was proof positive of piracy is educational...
From Schneier on Security
Eye Twitch Patterns as a Biometric
Yet another biometric: eye twitch patterns: ...a person's saccades, their tiny, but rapid, involuntary eye movements, can be measured using a video camera. The...
From The Noisy Channel
LinkedIn at RecSys 2012
LinkedIn is an industry leader in the area of recommender systems – a place where big data meets clever algorithms and content meets social. If you’re one of the...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The First Time I Don't Want to Go Back to School
Today is the first day back to school for a lot of people. It's been the same for me for many years, given that I have yet to leave school behind for good. ButView...
From Putting People First
Ericsson on evolving TV and video-consumption habits
Ericsson is publishing interesting research these days (and therefore gets featured on this blog). Its latest TV and video ConsumerLab report found that mobile...
From Putting People First
Africa embracing m-commerce
In a new report from its ConsumerLab, Ericsson maps out the potential of transformation within m-commerce across the region of sub-Saharan Africa. Based on in-depth...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nearing the Turing Test
Freelance writer Dan Falk penned an interesting story for The Telegraph last month, reflecting on his experience as a judge in the Turing Test Marathon this summer...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup 2013 Opens with Larger Prizes
Last week Microsoft announced the opening of the 2013 Imagine Cup. This year there are thee competition and three challenges for students to enter. The prizes are...
From Putting People First
MindLab, Denmark’s cross-ministerial innovation unit
MindLab is a Danish cross-ministerial innovation unit which involves citizens and businesses in creating new solutions for society. It is also a physical space...
From Putting People First
Gestural interaction with data
The Ericsson UX Lab has been prototyping and testing gestural interaction solutions with data: “This spring we worked on how to visualise and interact with data...
From Putting People First
Qualitative research, UX strategy and wicked problems
These are the topics of the latest update on UX Matters: Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantitative and Qualitative Research By Demetrius Madrigal and Bryan McClain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business in Business intelligence
By now anyone who works for a business should know this, but it bears repeating: In Information Managment: "... Business intelligence projects have historically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Tests Smartphone Self Checkout
Not very much detail here, but it's not unexpected that we will soon see the idea of the shopper using their own device appearing more often. But will these Apps...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Organizations would not pass the Turing test
In Computer Science, we often informally judge intelligence by using the Turing test. The Turing test is quite simple: if you can convince an observer that you...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Your programming language does not know about elementary mathematics
In Mathematics, we typically require equality to form equivalence classes. That is, it should be reflexive: A should be equal to A. Moreover, it should be symmetric...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA Embraces Augmented Reality
A nice example of the use of augmented reality for a catalog. A very good place to try the idea first. Much more at the link. I plan to try this at the nearby...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skepticism About Smart
Jerry Michalski posts in Rexpedition about his skepticism regarding the smarter world of things. I like to hear the other side. I am not as skeptical, but based...
From Putting People First
Curious Rituals – Gestural interaction in the digital everyday
Curious Rituals is a research project conducted at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) in July-August 2012 by Nicolas Nova (The Near Future Laboratory / HEAD...
From The Eponymous Pickle