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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 Computational Complexity
Where do theorems go to die?
(Joint post by Bill Gasarch and Daniel Apon) Recently I (Daniel) reviewed Dexter Kozen's Theory of Computation (it was AWESOME). You can find the review here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle Books Available from Libraries
Amazon has launched a Kindle book borrowing service from over 11,000 libraries. You don't need a physical Kindle, only a free App for your device and an AmazonPress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Waitrose CrowdSources With its Shoppers
From IdeaConnection: The UK retailer Waitrose is using crowd sourcing techniques with its customers to develop new products. We will continue to see more of "...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Jane McGonigal: Reality is Broken
Jane McGonigal thinks reality is broken. Why else would so many of us escape it to play hours and hours of video games? But among all the media hype about theReality...
From Schneier on Security
Shifting Risk Instead of Reducing Risk
Risks of teen driving: For more than a decade, California and other states have kept their newest teen drivers on a tight leash, restricting the hours when they...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Launching a New Resource for CS Undergraduates
We’re launching something brand new today! The Computing Community Consortium’s Research Community & Student Outreach Subcommittee is pleased to announce a unique...
From Putting People First
Green markets must be created by you
Tuuli Kaskinen and Roope Mokka, researchers at Demos Helsinki, argue in an essay that we need more than mere sustainable versions of everyday products: we need...
From Putting People First
Designing social tools around user interests
The key to designing social media well lies in designing it for a user
From The Eponymous Pickle
Employee Segmentation
Bain & Company writes about Employee Segmentation: Using employee segmentation to bring out the best in your workforce. I had never thought about segmenting...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brandwashed Published
Martin Lindstrom's new book: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate our Minds and Persuade us to Buy is now available. See this press release for much...
From Putting People First
The Language of Interfaces
Des Traynor recently spoke at the Content Strategy Forum in London about the importance of which words used in an interface. The difference between Facebook’s Like...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Emerging Knowledge Is a Private Business
Collaboration is often encouraged in science: it is viewed as an intrinsically good thing. Yet there are downsides to collaboration. The most obvious downside is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internal Social Software
Excellent Mashable piece on the use of social software inside the company. I am now involved with two projects that are seriously using this concept. It makes...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Scientist Among 2011 MacArthur Fellows
Congratulations to Shwetak Patel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, who has just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking for the iPad
A useful development reported in AdAge. GazeHawk Brings Eye-Tracking Technology to the iPad. Heatmaps Could Help Tablet Publishers and Advertisers. Yes, this...
From Putting People First
EPIC 2011 draft proceedings available for download
The draft proceedings of EPIC 2011, the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, currently taking place in Boulder, CO, USA, are available for download during...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Marketing in Korea
In the Korea Herald: A general article in English on mobile and virtual retail developments in Korea. We looked to Korea for its forward looking understanding...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MS Robotic Studio
We examined a number of robotics solution for home solutions. In IEEE Spectrum: Microsoft Releases Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta, New Robot Platform. " .....
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is RFID?
I have given many talks on the nature and usefulness of Radio Frequency Identification. (RFID) I see today there is an article on RFID Journal about its nature...
From Putting People First