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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 Noisy Channel
HCIR 2011: We Have Arrived!
If you followed the #hcir2011 tweet stream, then you already know what I have to say: the Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyatt House Extended Stay
In 2003 I participated in a brainstorming innovation workshop for the hotel industry in Helsinki. We went far and wide to construct some new ideas about the social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing for Intelligence
In the CACM: University studies crowdsourcing for intelligence. " ... The U.S. intelligence community is studying how to tap the power of crowdsourcing through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3M Visual Attention Service Update
We examined the 3M VAS Attention Service scanning tool several times, some new developments. Press release. An Explanatory video. Worth looking at closely,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Base Analysis
I see that long time correspondent Professor Peter Fader at Wharton has an upcoming workshop on Probability analysis of the customer base. This is an area I did...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DemandTec Research on Social Networks for Business Plans
I reported previously about DemandTec developing collaborative, social networking based interaction for business plans. They are about to reveal some business...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hybrid Media
Like the article says, I am also becoming tired of social media marketing. Yet, there are lots of people assembling 'there', so it makes sense to be there as well...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Circles of Trust
In Visual Complexity: An intriguing visualization about circles of trust. I have been experimenting with a related topic that deal with 'circles of competencies'...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Nanotechnology Strategy Touts Big Data, Modeling
During a webinar earlier this afternoon, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) — spanning 25 Federal agencies engaged in nanotechnology research –
From Putting People First
Philips launches
Today Philips presented its latest forward looking design project
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beating Humans
Wired: A Lego NXT and a smart phone beat a human in solving the Rubiks cube. Intelligence advances.
From My Biased Coin
An Apple a Day
Reviewing papers for a conference is a slow, time-consuming process. Suppose you had 20 reviews due and about 4 weeks to do them. What's your approach?I take...
From Schneier on Security
Random Passwords in the Wild
Interesting analysis: the hacktivist group Anonymous hacked into several BART servers. They leaked part of a database of users from myBART, a website which provides...
From Putting People First
Metamemory and the user experience
When people expect to be able to access information in the future, they tend to have reduced memory for the actual information, but enhanced memory for where to...
From Putting People First
Cadillac User Experience (CUE)
Last week, Cadillac launched its new “CUE” vehicle infotainment system. The name is an acronym that stands for Cadillac User Experience
From Putting People First
The psychology of UX
When UX designer Vanessa Carey read Susan Weinschenk’s article “The Psychologist’s View of UX Design” (published in UXMag last year), she decided to explore each...
From Wild WebMink
Should Justin Bieber Go To Jail?
If you found my article in ComputerWorldUK yesterday too long and/or complicated, this cmpaign web site is the perfect alternative: Free Justin Bieber.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog