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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links Post 18 July 2011
Quite a week last week. You may have read my posts about the CSTA CS & IT Conference. I hope you did because it was a great conference. The first ever WorldWide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Analytics Magazine
Some good examples from the latest issue of this excellent magazine. About solving real business problems in business. Check out the magazine and the underlying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone Forensics
It is remarkable what can be determined from information that is stored on your smartphone. Not only where you are but lots of information about what you are doing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Google and the Brain
A good post in Mind Hacks commenting on the Google and the brain study I also noted recently. Knowing you have something at your fingertips does not mean than...
From The Noisy Channel
Guest Post: Diego Basch on The Need for Speed
Diego Basch is the CEO and founder of IndexTank, a hosted search service that powers major web sites such as Reddit, Twitvid, blip.tv, as well as providing a WordPress...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Mining Health Data, 140 Characters at a Time
Imagine you’re at the CDC, and you’re trying to predict and respond to this year’s flu season in real-time. You could either contact millions of Americans — or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Counting the Internet of Things
We continue to look at how things, in addition to people, now reside identified on the network. Trackable, queriable and countable. GigaOM Infographic says among...
From Putting People First
Talk to Me
In her New York Times review of Talk to Me (online journal), the latest exhibition by Paola Antonelli at the MoMA, Alice Rawsthorn describes what could be considered...
From The Eponymous Pickle
KTM Advance - Games and e-Learning
Newly discovered, KTM-Advance, E-Learning and serious games. Have been examining that aspect of games recently. In particular regarding sales training. Appears...
From Putting People First
European museums and libraries in/of the age of migration
MeLa – European Museums and Libraries in/of the Age of Migrations – is a brand new four-year research project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh...
From Putting People First
Izmo Summer School 2011
Izmo, the Italian association focused on participatory process, local development, architecture, design and ICT, organizes an International Summer School in Torino...
From Putting People First
New RSA Journal out
The Summer 2011 edition of the RSA Journal explores the relationship between business and social change. Brand values As the social, political and commercial spheres...
From Putting People First
Smartphones could mean end of web
The proliferation of powerful mobile phones could see control of the internet pass into the hands of corporations, positions John Naughton in The Observer today...
From The Eponymous Pickle
G+ Complete Guide
Mashable has what they call a complete Guide to G+. Can't be completely true since what G+ is continues to evolve. Yet it is a good introduction to the parts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
T Commerce Interfaces
Thought about this while slipping through Flipboard on an iPad. A completely configurable magazine and Reader that emphasizes images. Very addictive. I have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do We Need to be More Social?
Is Microsoft working on a social networking project. Do we need more social? I guess we can see these efforts as competition for our social connections and someone...
From Putting People First
Exploring the shift In search behaviors with Microsoft
Jacquelyn Krones, a Senior Product Manager from Microsoft, is in charge of an ongoing ethnographic research project on understanding search behavior.
From Putting People First
User experience design principles
During the conference “An Event Apart” (AEA) in Boston, UX designer Whitney Hess gave a talk entitled “Create design principles and use them to establish a philosophy...
From Putting People First
Interaction designers convene in Florence
Greg Williams reports in Wired UK on the recent Frontiers of Interaction conference in Florence, Italy. “Few people need an excuse to spend time in Florence, so...
From Putting People First