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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
GeoIQ: Visualize and Analyze Real-Time Geo Data
I had the opportunity to look at a relatively new Geographical Information System: GeoIQ. Have worked on a number of company GIS projects and this looks to be...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 27
June 29 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on consumer data privacy. 10 a.m., 253 Russell Building The House...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
MIT Professor
Fresh on the heels of Friday’s big announcement about a new National Robotics Initiative, I thought now would be a great time to feature a recent talk by MIT CSAIL...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On being happy
What if you could engineer happiness? What if you could redesign your life so that you are happier? With professors in mind, Brian Martin wrote an essay entitled...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-27
The Failed Experiment of Software Patents – Open Enterprise One day one of these cases will have an outcome so outrageous that legislators will be forced to hold...
From Putting People First
Studying interaction design in Switzerland
A new master in interaction design will start in September in Switzerland — with some teaching support from Experientia — and a few places are still available....
From Schneier on Security
Common PINs
There's some great data on common iPhone passwords. I'm sure the results also apply to banking PINs.
From Putting People First
Book: Ethnographies of the Videogame
Ethnographies of the Videogame: Gender, Narrative and Praxis by Helen Thornham, City University London, UK Ethnographies of the Videogame Ashgate, July 2011, 218...
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Books and Libraries
Good overview in ReadwriteWeb: More indications of if libraries will survive and what form they will take. Will they be in the Cloud with the rest of us? Or...
From Wild WebMink
? Coffee Time in Brazil
Just ending a relaxing Sunday with friends in Brazil, who have these coffee plants in their garden. It’s getting close to the time the berries need harvesting,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Computers Communicate Visually?
Visualization Viewpoint in IEEE Computing Now, If they can, can we do the same working with them?Can Computers Master the Art of Communication? A Focus on Visual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biologically Inspired Visual Search
And more about visual search. I worked on several projects in this area, and it is a difficult problem, though there have been advances in recent years." ... The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Similar Image Search
A good introduction to similar image search in Google, here applied to specific sites.
From Putting People First
Enchanted Objects: The next wave of the web
David Rose (LinkedIn), CEO of Vitality (where he works on healthy behavior change) and lecturer at MIT Media Lab (and former CEO of Ambient Devices), gave a talk...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do We Really Want Digital Textbooks?
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From Putting People First
What is Your Influence Score?
Imagine a world in which we are assigned a number that indicates how influential we are. This number would help determine whether you receive a job, a hotel-room...
From Putting People First
IBM reveals untapped mobile users of the future
Consumers have a growing appetite for health and wellness gadgets and this represents a burgeoning market opportunity for device manufacturers that has barely been...
From Putting People First
Activate 2011: Technology powered by people
Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS, reports on how Activate 2011, the one-day conference in London on technology and development, made clear it’s...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Adventures in NUI Part 1
Yesterday I was giving a career talk to a group from Year Up in Microsoft
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science