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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 Putting People First
Nudging consumers into making better life choices
Designers are beginning to understand how irrational thinking plays into the decisions people make, writes Rob Girling of Artefact. That knowledge can be used to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Illumishare
Microsoft's Illumishare. A virtual reality effort by Microsoft that allows the mixing of the virtual and real. The video emphasizes education examples, but...
From Computational Complexity
The Erdos- de Bruijn theorem
The mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn passed away on Feb 17, 2012. The number of things named after him is quite large. I will discuss the Erdos-de Bruijn...
From Putting People First
Connected homes for connected people
The French think tank Fing (who was also behind the LIFT France event last year) collaborated last year with VIA, Promotelec, Renault Group, La Poste, Minatec Laboratory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
High Performance Analytics
SAS's always insightful Jim Goodnight, on high performance analytics.
From Wild WebMink
? Pratchett Does Sci-Fi
My attention was drawn to a new direction that fantasy author Terry Pratchett is taking. His Discworld series has been a huge success among a wide circle of people...
From Schneier on Security
FBI Special Agent and Counterterrorism Expert Criticizes the TSA
Good essay. Nothing I haven't said before, but it's good to hear it from someone with a widely different set of credentials than I have.
From Putting People First
Habits are the new viral: why startups must be behavior experts
The economic value of web businesses increasingly depends on the strength of the habitual behavior of their users, argues Nir Eyal on Techcrunch. These habits ultimately...
From Putting People First
Two more posts by Sam Ladner on corporate ethnography
After her much talked about piece “Does corporate ethnography suck?” – which presented a cultural analysis of academics critiques of industry ethnography as a second...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft at SIGCSE 2012
For the first time in several years I am not attending SIGCSE this week. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Needs a Reboot
Insightful, somewhat simplistic view of the changes in retail from GigaOM. Classic retail needs to be re-thought definitely, reboot perhaps. The insertion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Branding Knowledge Management Initiatives
Branding Knowledge Management. By Lauren Trees. An interesting element that we had not thought about in great detail during our own internal tests. What we...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who is on Your Network?
From ComputerWorld. A clever little free mobile App for Apple or Android or desktop called Fing that scans your local network and tells you what is on it. Simple...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BiggerPlate Mapping Groups
I have long been a proponent of concept, mind and process maps as a means of capturing and delivering many kinds of knowledge. BiggerPlate is a sharing repository...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Direct Social Selling
In Supermarket News: " ... The Economist Intelligence Unit found that more consumer-goods companies are using social media to sell directly to customers, and the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Knowledge Graph
I order to be more precise search must embed semantic reasoning. In Mashable, an interview about the challenge and the use of semantic knowledge networks. ...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science