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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 Eponymous Pickle
Never Failed a Test so Guilty?
From Numbers Rule the World: Good piece on false negatives. Using the case of bicycler Lance Armstrong having never failed a steroid test, and as a result was...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Thinking in Music
In Communications of the ACMAlgorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking in Music The composer still composes but also gets to take a programming-enabled journey...
From Putting People First
For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience
Matt Frassica asks — in The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal (republished in USA Today) — what the increasing popularity of e-reader devices means for the experience...
From Putting People First
Help us say no to Italian internet censorship
AGCOM, Italy’s independent and autonomous administrative Authority for Communication Guarantees, is about to decide (on July 5) to controversially appoint itself...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Print Circulars
Steve Frenda on the beginning of the end of retail print circulars. Many millions are still printed, but is this the end of an era? Like books, I think they will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindjet on the iPhone
I see that the Mindjet App is now available. Portable mind managers can be very useful. Although useful on the iPhone, it would be most practical if it were available...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Encyclopedia of User Interaction and Design
Don Norman and others contribute to this new effort. A kind of free contributed book from a number of invited practitioners and experts in the space. Just starting...
From Putting People First
The Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Donald Norman alerts us – with strong recommendation – to check out the Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction now being assembled by Mads Soegaard and the...
From Putting People First
How print design is the future of interaction
Mike Kruzeniski is Creative Director at Microsoft, in the Windows Phone design studio, currently leading the Windows Phone Apps Design team. Kruzeniski gave a talk...
From The Eponymous Pickle
PARC Wants to Reinvent the Internet
Is this a really novel approach? Always respected PARC's views, in the early days of enterprise innovation we met with them many times.
From My Biased Coin
Odd SODA Rules, and Other Conference Paper Complaints
Suresh points out we have some strange new SODA submission rules this year: Full submissions should begin with the title of the paper, each author's name, affiliation...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid as an Emblem for Ocean Conservation
It's a proposal.
From Schneier on Security
TDSS Rootkit
There's a new version: The latest TDL-4 version of the rootkit, which is used as a persistent backdoor to install other types of malware, infected 4.52 million...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multiple Person Interaction for Design
Images Changing your Behavior. It has been done in the form of advertising for a long time. How does this work when there are multiple people interacting? WeMicrosoft's...
From Wild WebMink
FUD Barriers For Open Source Non-Profits?
In a post to a private mailing list I follow, Software Conservancy chief Bradley Kuhn has confirmed that an unexpected problem highlighted recently by CASH Music...
From Schneier on Security
Menwith Hill
Article on the NSA's Menwith Hill listening station in the UK.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Google: Green Tech Innovation as a Way Forward
Earlier this week, Google released a new report on energy innovation, in which it imagined a number of different
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anonymizing Data Protecting Privacy
Does Anonymizing Data Help Protect Customers' Privacy? When we looked at this we also suspected not, so were even often more careful by statistically generating...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-07-01
Google Takeout Google seems committed to what I've long called "the freedom to leave", and that's giving me a lot of confidence trying out Plus. (tags: google security...
From Putting People First