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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
Catalina Acquires Modiv Media
We worked with early forms of Modiv Media in store scanning devices and location oriented processes. Even provided some design adjustments when it was being delivered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being an Analytic Entrepreneur
Analytics Entrepreneur. Vincent Granville is highlighted and interviewed. An interesting concept that is detailed here. I think it makes sense to think of...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Simons Foundation Awards UC Berkeley $60M to Launch Theory of Computing Institute
This morning, the University of California, Berkeley, announced a $60 million grant from the Simons Foundation – which seeks ”to advance the frontiers of research...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing at the USA Science & Engineering Festival
Computing was among the excitement this past weekend at the 2nd
From Schneier on Security
When Investigation Fails to Prevent Terrorism
I've long advocated investigation, intelligence, and emergency response as the places where we can most usefully spend our counterterrorism dollars. Here's anthat...
From Computational Complexity
Berkeley Wins the Simons
As reported today in the New York Times, the Simons Foundation has chosen U. C. Berkeley to host the new Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, a $6,000,000...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
New Podcast Series - The Campus Coder
Glen Gordon and Ed Donahue have a new podcast series, The Campus Coder. The first podcast is with Chevon Christie Chevon Christie is a student developer in...
From Putting People First
To really understand social media, you must also understand online communities
When we talk about social media we are really only talking about tools that we can use to help us and the people we engage to achieve a task. To make a success...
From Putting People First
The demise of the ethnographic monograph
As ethnographic practice has spilled out into the broader world of design and policy-making, business strategy and marketing, the monograph has not remained the...
From Putting People First
Extending the experience beyond the device
Tim Todish provides some good examples of companies extending the (user) experience beyond the device as a good way to differentiate from the competition. “Most...
From Putting People First
A retrospective of talks given by ethnographers at Lift Conference since 2006
Of all the conferences that are dedicated to discussions on technology and society, there
From Putting People First
Researching meaning: making sense of behaviour
In his last article Simon Norris, founder and CEO of Nomensa, outlined a simple model
From Putting People First
Gamification and UX: where users win or lose
In this long article, Peter Steen H
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook and Socially Interactive Health Care
In ReadwriteWeb: Is Facebook poised to revolutionize Health Care? The idea of socially interactive health care is something I have looked at for some time, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Refrigerator is a Peripheral
We experimented widely with the network in the 'future home'. As part of that effort we visited Microsoft's future home. I was never impressed with how much they...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Katie Salen's Take on How Games Can Change Education
Don't shoot the player while they're learning. It's one of the keys to good game design as spoken by a veteran of the field, and adopted by Katie Salen in therecent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Science and Business Association
Newly formed group I was informed of by Steve Sands: The Neuromarketing Science & Business Association (NMSBA) is the global trade association for all those engaged...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping App and Product Discovery
In GigaOM: A key aspect of in store applications. It drives the potential of pointing out new products to the user. " ... in its first survey of performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle