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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
Robot Hands
Helping the disabled, at home and office ... with fundamentally re-designed robot hand. In Engadget. Video.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psychobiological Bases of Personality
Christophe Morin on this intriguing topic. With links to a number of papers on the subject, from Pavlov and beyond. Particularly key to see aspects other than...
From Wild WebMink
Hiring For Core Values
Back at Sun, I believe much of the blame for the company’s failure between 2001 and 2004 – from which the later, otherwise successful open source and hardware appliance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Massively Available Online Courses
What will the response be from classic educational venues? Considering a strategic response.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hive Group London Medals Treemap
The Hive group provides a treemap data visualization map for medals at the London 2012 Olympics. Among a gallery of other visualization examples for complex data...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: SQUIDS and Quantum Computing
It seems that quantum computers might use superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Creatures
In HBR: I found this idea of creatures for a brand interesting because I had a project that tried to integrate Mr. Clean and the use of artificial intelligence....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Supply Chain Innovations
In SCIDigest: This approach is becoming increasingly common. " ... Supply Chain News: Unilever Says Its Supplier Partnership Program is Paying Big Dividends ...
From Wild WebMink
The Open Source Stimulus Plan
My column for InfoWorld this week considers the unseen value open source brings into the economy, and references this keynote from OSCON by Tim O’Reilly.
From Schneier on Security
Unsafe Safes
In a long article about insecurities in gun safes, there's this great paragraph: Unfortunately, manufacturers and consumers are deceived and misled into a false...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Local Professional Development Rocks!
Last week I was honored to present and attend CSTA Rocks Ohio! in Columbus, Ohio. This workshop, sponsored by CSTA and Google, was attended by 35 other CS educators...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A post-industrial point of view
We can roughly sketch human history as follows: Initially, everything was expensive for human beings. Farming made food cheap. The industrial revolution made goods...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Tech SuperMarkets
Nothing very new here. But in Mashable, a list and vendor overview of advanced, often mobile tech being seen increasingly often in the supermarket. Though most...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AAMAS, CCC Running Challenges and Visions Track
In cooperation with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to invite...
From Schneier on Security
Overreaction and Overly Specific Reactions to Rare Risks
Horrific events, such as the massacre in Aurora, can be catalysts for social and political change. Sometimes it seems that they're the only catalyst; recall how...
From Putting People First
Book: UX Best Practices
UX Best Practices – How to Achieve More Impact with User Experience Helmut Degen & Xiaowei Yuan (Eds.) McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2011 ISBN-10: 007175251X, ISBN...
From Putting People First
Ethnography for user experience
In three essays John Payne, Principal of Moment’s Experience Design practice, reflects on his workshop, Ethnography for User Experience, and their field research...
From Putting People First
Intel’s futurist envisions life in 2022
Brian David Johnson gets paid to predict the future. He is the first, the one, and the only futurist at Intel, charged with envisioning how people will interact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transforming Engineering Education
Correspondent David Goldberg points me to the BigBeacon blog. A movement to transform engineering education ... Which also syndicates some of his writing on...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP