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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 Computational Complexity
The Quantum Tivo
Chuck Klosterman writes on watching sports on tape delay and Jeff Ely follows up. I take a quantum mechanics view: A sporting event saved on my Tivo is like Schr...
From Schneier on Security
Research in Secure Chips
Unsuprisingly, the U.S. military is funding reseach in this.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Shopping
Imteresting case use of virtual displays to shop in the Korean subways More here.
From CERIAS Blog
More than passive defense
I was watching a video today (more on that later) that reminded me of some history. It also brought to mind that too few defenders these days build forensics capture...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Bill Ford at TED
A superb talk by Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, at TED ’11. “The mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow … We need...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The myth of the unavoidable specialization
In a recent essay, Malone et al. claimed that we were entering the age of hyperspecialization. Their core assumption: human beings are more efficient when doing...
From The Noisy Channel
Google
When I left Google last December, it was an open secret that Google was developing a social networking product. Now that Google has released Google+, I am at liberty...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-07-04
"We the corporations" – Move to Amend A very happy 4th to all my friends in the USA. A great way to celebrate is to go consider this timely Move To Amend campaign...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence and Analytics Survey
Computerworld's Business Intelligence and Analytics Surveyhttps://web.questback.com/idg/bi2011/ Computerworld is preparing a special report on business intelligence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data is the New Platform
The new view from the Accenture technology vision. Data is a platform in the enterprise. Quite clear, it has always been that.
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