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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
Truth, lies and the internet
The internet is the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today. But the amount of material available at the click of a mouse can be both liberating...
From Putting People First
UX: old wine in new bottles?
Finnish researchers Antti Oulasvirta, Pertti Saariluoma, Rebekah Rousi and Jaana Leikas discuss replacing using intuitive notions of emotions with systematic psychological...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teasers from Brandwashed
Martin Lindstrom's latest book: Brandwashed has made number 8 on USA Today's bestsellers list. He sends along a flier that outlines a number of interesting topics...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Advocating on the Advocate Blog
Recently I started a 10-week contract, filling in as a Math teacher at a local high school. Naturally one of my early questions was "So what senior computing classes...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Trending Today: Life According to Twitter
There’s a new study out in tomorrow’s Science
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Site Analytics
Google Analytics is adding real time tracking to its dashboards. This will be phased in over the coming days.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kimberly-Clark Logistics
A good example of how RFID can be used to make the supply chain more efficient through transparency: " ... The consumer goods manufacturer is using a solution that...
From My Biased Coin
Allerton Part 2 : Venue Change?
Yesterday, I thought the best talks I saw were by Devavrat Shah and Dina Katabi.Dev was talking about how to track where rumors start. The model is you have aproject...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interdictive Analytics
Forrester's James Kobielus on what he is calling 'Interdictive Analytics'. Good thoughts. I had not heard the term before but it is form of predictive alerting...
From Wild WebMink
? Extension of Power
Alert To Activists: Customs Enforcement of IPR “This is a very worrying development. Borders are places with arbitrary rules, over-empowered and unaccountable officers...
From Schneier on Security
Insecure Chrome Extensions
An analysis of extensions to the Chrome browser shows that 25% of them are insecure: We reviewed 100 Chrome extensions and found that 27 of the 100 extensions...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE
At an event in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Analytics Transforming Retail Business Planning
Correspondent Armen Najarian at DemandTec posts an excellent piece: Four Ways Social Analytics will Transform Retail Business Planning. Read his list of four dimensions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packaging and Consumer Choice
An interesting case study in Knowledge @ Wharton regarding packaging design at Heinz and how innovative packaging can be transformational in very common and 'old'...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Davenport Looks at MoneyBall
Information and analytics in Baseball and Industry. Games have always been a good way to think about business and how to apply technical methods. A good look...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Business Intelligence at Guess Inc
An intriguing case study of business intelligence at Guess. The concept of agility. Agile BI: Good but Not EnoughAt Guess Inc., BI Director Bruce Yen embraces...
From My Biased Coin
Allerton 2011
I woke up at an absurdly early hour this morning to get on a plane and go to the Allerton conference. I'm giving a talk this afternoon on Invertible Bloom Lookup...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accidental Creative
Todd Henry of Accidental Creative on Realism, Ambition and Hypocracy. See his excellent book: The Accidental Creative.
From The Eponymous Pickle