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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
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
Behavioural insights could save millions of pounds
Using behavioural insights could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds over the course of the [UK] Parliament and thousands of lives a year, according to...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Calling for Proposals: Envisioning Frontiers of Computing Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) — a standing committee of CRA that seeks to catalyze and empower the computing research community to pursue audacious,...
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post on NYCE (Giorgos Zervas)
GUEST POST by GIORGOS ZERVAS I was at NYCE 2011 this past Friday. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and productive experience. I feel like I got a conference's worth...
From Wild WebMink
? Tricks
The special trick that helps identify dodgy stats I’d heard of Benford’s Law before, but it was a timely reminder. There are quite a few banks of data that it would...
From Schneier on Security
Complex Electronic Banking Fraud in Malaysia
The interesting thing about this attack is how it abuses a variety of different security systems. Investigations revealed that the syndicate members had managed...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson