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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
Amazing Facts About McDonalds
A set of slides that provide some interesting facts about the global reach and impactful magnitude of the McDonald's Corporation.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Art Conference
There was an interdisciplinary cephalopod art conference earlier this year, in Minneapolis. Videos of the conference are available online. As usual, you can also...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ed Chi on Model-Driven Research in Social Computing
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Fast and Slow
In the NYT Book review: A review of Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. The dismantling of 'Homo Economicus'. Heady stuff that has stimulated a lot...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Subscribe to My Feed
This blog has always had an RSS feed for syndication. If you find it useful please do subscribe. This blog has been around for a number of years. It parallels...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Workers and Technology
Michael S Malone debates if workers are being left behind by technology. Quite obviously, no. Workers are taking to technology rapidly, and that technology is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical Databases and Better Care
I am currently looking at applications and intelligence in medical data. Which led me to this recent article. " ... UpToDate is one of several online services...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media vs Knowledge Management
In the HBR blog: " ... On the surface, social media and knowledge management (KM) seem very similar. Both involve people using technology to access information....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Recap of Supercomputing
Last week in Seattle a record attendance of more than 11,000 people from throughout
From Schneier on Security
Android Malware
The Android platform is where the malware action is: What happens when anyone can develop and publish an application to the Android Market? A 472% increase ingain...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aberdeen Group
Brought to my attention: The Aberdeen Group. " ... Aberdeen conducts primary research studies from a pool of over 500,000 panel participants. The results of each...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing for the Internet of Things
A recent NESTA conference: About what they call demanding devices. The idea should flourish. Includes a number of videos from the conference. Another idea would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling Me
Martin Lindstrom writes in Fast Company about the 'Me Selling Proposition'. Personalizing things from postage stamps to beverages to make them feel very much like...
From Putting People First
How can we change consumer behaviour to benefit the environment?
The concept of of social labelling could lead to a subconscious change in behaviour, Guy Champniss writes in The Guardian. “By social labelling, we’re referring...
From Putting People First
Unilever
Five Levers for Change: inspiring consumers to adopt sustainable behaviour is fundamental to achieving Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan. Unilever
From Wild WebMink
Thanks, ECJ!
While the USA has a day of general thanksgiving today, European citizens need to be especially thankful to the European Court of Justice for their decision that...
From Putting People First
Demanding devices: design and the Internet of Things
On Tuesday 22 November, NESTA in London organised an event that looked at the challenges of designing for an Internet of Things. The speakers: pioneers Usman Haque...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Announces Spring Cleaning
You have to admire their spunk. And funds. They have tried a number of unusual efforts and dared us to use them. Announced, a list things that are being sunsetted...
From The Eponymous Pickle