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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
Mobile Retail
Mobile is changing retail at a remarkable speed. We saw the implications of this very early on, before the smartphone. A text based phone like the Blackberry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Putting Predictive Analytics to Work
Good Computerworld article. Emphasizing that it does not require a big budget, but does require business understanding and sponsors to agree that this is a priority...
From Computational Complexity
Transitions
On July 1 I officially move jobs from Northwestern to Georgia Tech, a change not just in location but in role as I become a department chair. I'm proud by what...
From Schneier on Security
Top Secret America on the Post-9/11 Cycle of Fear and Funding
I'm reading Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State, by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. Both work for The Washington Post. The book...
From Schneier on Security
Russian Nuclear Launch Code Backup Procedure
If the safe doesn't open, use a sledgehammer: The sledgehammer's existence first came to light in 1980, when a group of inspecting officers from the General Staff...
From Putting People First
UCI to lead national social computing research center, led by Paul Dourish
UC Irvine will anchor a new $12.5 million, Intel-funded research center that applies social science and humanities to the design and analysis of digital information...
From Schneier on Security
E-Mail Accounts More Valuable than Bank Accounts
This informal survey produced the following result: "45% of the users found their email accounts more valuable than their bank accounts." The author believes this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with Target CMO
In Forbes: What is in Store for the Brand. Overview mention of a number of issues the big retailer is dealing with in marketing and merchandising, for example...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Which is fastest: read, fread, ifstream or mmap?
If you program in C/C++, you have many options to read files: The standard C library offers a low-level read function. It is as simple as it gets. The standard...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Media Influence on Purchasing Decisions
A research brief on media influence. " ... According to The Media Comparisons Study, from TVB with Knowledge Networks, consumers credit TV ads as most influential...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Food Supply Chain Improvement and Protection
I just got a chance to interview N2N Global. A business intelligence and analytics provider for food supply chains. Aimed at Food Safety, Quality Assurance and...
From Putting People First
Book: Design and Anthropology
Design and Anthropology Edited by Wendy Gunn, University of Southern Denmark and Jared Donovan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Ashgate, 2012 Hardcover...
From Putting People First
Secrets about human behavior as the basis of future massive enterprises
Nir Eyal, lecturer in marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, believes secrets about human behavior, which provide insights into the way people act...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First Person: Pattie Maes on the Future of HCI
On the heels of Francis Collins’s Scientific American
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinventing Reading
Citia, An App that aims to reinvent reading. An intriguing notion I am exploring. " ... Some of the world
From Putting People First
Dan Ariely on why we lie, cheat, go to prison and eat cake
Dan Ariely is a professor of behavioral economics and psychology at Duke University and the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions...
From Schneier on Security
Resilience
There was a conference on resilience (highlights here, and complete videos here) earlier this year. Here's an interview with professor Sander van der Leeuw on...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM