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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 Wild WebMink
Virtual Choir 3
Eric Whitacre launched Virtual Choir 3, the composite performance of his choral work “Water Night”, to promote his new album of the same name (of which more later)...
From Putting People First
UX is the heart of any company. How do you make it top priority?
Wolff Olins
From Putting People First
People-powered health
People Powered Health is a programme from NESTA, the UK innovation charity, to support the design and delivery of innovative services for people that are living...
From Wild WebMink
The Lesson of the Pantheon Roof
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Pantheon Roof, a photo by webmink on Flickr. Probably the most amazing artefact of the ancient world I have seen, the Pantheon in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Marketing
New book: Shopper Marketing: How to Increase Purchase Decisions at the Point of Sale, by Markus Stahlberg. On my list to read. Contains a chapterHerb Sorensen...
From CERIAS Blog
Keynote: Howard Schmidt (Keynote Summary)
Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Cyber Security, Office of the U.S. President Morning Keynote Address, April 4, 2012....
From CERIAS Blog
Security Fireside Chat (Summary)
Summary by Christine Task. The fireside chat was an open discussion among several important persons with very interesting positions in the security world. The...
From Schneier on Security
Hawley Channels His Inner Schneier
Kip Hawley wrote an essay for the Wall Street Journal on airport security. In it, he says so many sensible things that people have been forwarding it to me with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Risk
A study in visualizing risk, from Forbes. Very complex dashboards of data are shown. This gets back to using the human visual system as a trend and outlier recognition...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Razor Innovation
In the HBR Blog. How consumer innovation for Gillette is moving to the far east. Matches some other speculation I have heard about how other innovation work...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 16
April 18 Markup: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will review a bill to update the Federal Information Security Management Act. 10 a.m., 2154...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Multi-Agency Earth System Models (EaSM) Proposals Due
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its cross-cutting Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) initiative
From The Eponymous Pickle
Struggling to Collaborate
Baseline Slideshow: On the issues of inter-enterprise collaboration. Somewhat useful, again, for a project I am working, but could use more depth than they claim...
From Computational Complexity
ACM/IEEE Curriculum 2013
[STOC 2012 Early Registration Deadline Thursday] On a roughly ten-year cycle, the ACM and IEEE Computer Society get together to create a list of core topics that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing a Portfolio of Innovations
From Forrester: We also worked on a closely related project. how do you get the right information, especially about the technical risk involved, to the decision...
From Schneier on Security
How Information Warfare Changes Warfare
Really interesting paper on the moral and ethical implications of cyberwar, and the use of information technology in war (drones, for example): "Information Warfare...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 April 2012
Later this week I head out to Redmond Washington to take part in the US finals of the Imagine Cup. We have 22 teams coming out there for the event. Twenty one of...
From Wild WebMink
Beware The
As wave after wave of privacy news arrives, it’s easy to believe that public postings on social media sites are the problem. But I believe we are facing an issue...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Keeping it real
Lee Kolbert wrote a blog post (Dear Will Richardson ) that I see as a real call to action for those of us who promote ourselves as experts working to help teachers...
From The Eponymous Pickle