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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 Schneier on Security
The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication
In 2005, I wrote an essay called "The Failure of Two-Factor Authentication," where I predicted that attackers would get around multi-factor authentication systems...
From Computational Complexity
Competition
A few people have asked me my opinions on Oded Goldreich's essay On Struggle and Competition in Scientific Fields. I read through Oded's essay I expected to highly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big CPG Ad Spenders Plan to Ease Back
In Ad Age. Detailed piece on the plans of Procter & Gamble and Unilever in ad spending. Some speculation but considerable useful information.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 6
February 7 Markup: The House Science, Space and Technology Committee will review pending legislation, including a bill to amend the High Performance Computing Act...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Children
Late last month, Children’s Hospital Boston announced the launch of the CLARITY Challenge
From Putting People First
Interaction 12: Keynote by Anthony Dunne
Ciara Taylor was also at Interaction 12 in Dublin and reports on the keynote talk by Anthony Dunne for Core77. “Interaction design and designing interactions… are...
From Putting People First
Interaction 12: Day Three
There was magic in the air on the final day of the Interactions 12 conference in Dublin, as a number of speakers drew the connections between magic and design,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 February 2012
I’m headed to Austin TX today for the Texas Computer Educators Association (TCEA) conference. Hoping to see some old friends and meet some new friends. If youMrYongpradit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Model of Human Health Behavior Change
We worked with Stanford Professor BJ Fogg several times in the enterprise. I am very late to discover this, but he has created a new model of human behavior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Gaming for Engagment
In the NYT: Good general piece on gaming for brand engagement. Mentioning the example of Samsung in some detail. " ... Samsung is embracing a business trendThe...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Watson Changing Careers
More indications that artificial intelligence, much promoted in the late 80s, is back again. Based on the same kinds of rule-based, certainty quantification...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Taps a Join the Dots Panel
Had not heard of this before, but from Research Live: Unilever is recruiting a new panel of shoppers to help 'shape the future' of its family of brands.
From Wild WebMink
? Help OSI Transform
As I explained at FOSDEM (blog post coming!), the Open Source Initiative is switching to a member-led governance. For that, it will need members. The OSI Board...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Home Robotics and the Mint Claner
I was involved with several projects in the enterprise that dealt about how cleaning products could be used in conjunction with home robotics. We got some early...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research Unveils
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Eric Horvitz, Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research and member of the CCC Council, and Peter Lee...
From Putting People First
Information overload is not unique to Digital Age
It is a constant complaint: We’re choking on information. The flood of data on the Web has reached mind boggling proportions, and it shows no signs of stopping....
From Putting People First
The human factor in service design
McKinsey’s John DeVine, Shyam Lal, and Michael Zea write that businesses ought to focus on the human side of customer service to make it psychologically savvy,...
From Putting People First
Interactions 12: Day Two
Vicky Teinaki and Louise Taylor continue their coverage of the Interactions conference in Dublin. In this long article, they report on the presentations by Jonas...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson