Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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
Crowds Need Independence for Wisdom
More evidence that crowds need to retain independence to maintain the 'outlier canceling' effect that can make them useful to solve problems. Obvious, but important...
From Putting People First
The wisdom and foolishness of crowds
Experiments suggest that wisdom of the crowd can be countered by too much communication within that crowd. “The wisdom of crowds turns out to be an incredibly fragile...
From Putting People First
Patients want more user-friendly medical devices
Cambridge Consultants released the findings of a study which examines how device usability impacts patient acceptance, dosage compliance and ultimately health outcomes...
From Schneier on Security
World War II Tunny Cryptanalysis Machine Rebuilt at Bletchley Park
Neat: The rebuild team had only a few photographs, partial circuit diagrams and the fading memories of a few original Tunny operators to go on. Nonetheless a team...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supermarkets Morphing to Restaurants
Prepared foods continue to increase in availability in supermarkets, due to bigger margins. The next step is to wrap in the restaurant as well. More margin and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dunnhumby Acquires BzzAgent
BzzAgent is a company that seeks to get people talk about brands.They are being acquired by loyalty data agent Dunnhumby. BzzAgent reminds, in name and direction...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Student Insiders and Imagine Cup Game Teams
I thought I might highlight a few student related things going on at Microsoft these days. I
From Putting People First
Internet of things blurs the line between bits and atoms
In the past few months, companies ranging from giants such as Google to small start-ups have been touting the possibility of interconnecting people and objects...
From Schneier on Security
Open-Source Software Feels Insecure
At first glance, this seems like a particularly dumb opening line of an article: Open-source software may not sound compatible with the idea of strong cybersecurity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Currency: Bitcoin
Bitcoin, the experiment with encrypted online currency. Dangerous? A Scam? Revolutionary or just a renaming of something old? Will it be made illegal? It ultimately...
From Schneier on Security
Spear Phishing Attacks from China Against Gmail Accounts
Reporters have been calling me pretty much constantly about this story, but I can't figure out why in the world this is news. Attacks from China -- old news; attacks...
From Putting People First
Digital You: a NESTA discussion on telepresence
Digital You was an early morning discussion in London, organised by NESTA, that looked at telepresence and the psychology of electronic communications. NESTA is...
From Putting People First
Is car sharing the future of the automobile industry?
As much as the car chieftains of Detroit try to fight it, America is slowly but surely turning away from the concept of car ownership. Instead, hundreds of thousands...
From Putting People First
Five similarities between collaborative consumption and open-source technology
Tim Hyer, the founder of Rentcycle (an online rental marketplace for those looking to share access rather than retain ownership), was hugely inspired by his previous...
From Computational Complexity
Partioning Students
One last Molly post for the end of the school year. Tomorrow is her birthday and I enter that moment I have been dreading for the past thirteen years: Two teenage...
From The Eponymous Pickle