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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
Walmart Gathers in Kosmix, Goes Silent with Walmart Labs
Around May 3 Wal-Mart gathered up Kosmix, social networking player. I wrote about it then. At the same time the folks at Kosmix started to talk about a transition...
From Putting People First
Create Your Own 2011
Create Your Own 2011 (CYO2011) is a highly recommended event taking place in Berlin on 30-31 May where participants can explore the reality and future behind individualisation...
From Putting People First
Are our lives vanishing into the cloud?
“[Soon] we will no longer possess, in a formal sense, our own stuff,” writes Adam Silver, design strategist at frog. “Not even on our hard drives. Instead, it will...
From Putting People First
Ten principles that contribute to a Googley user experience
The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Statistician Reads Blink
An excellent two part (read them both) view of the analytical shortcomings of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Blink got the attention of many managers, and they brought...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Data! I need more data!
Big data! I don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web vs Native Mobile App
Thoughts on Native vs Web Apps in Readwriteweb:" What is the future of the mobile Internet? Are native applications going to be the dominant form of digital interaction...
From My Biased Coin
NSF Bows to Blog Pressure (Tongue-in-Cheek)
As some of you may recall, I accused the NSF of being "misguided" in changing its graduate fellowship policy to effectively disallow teaching. So I was please...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MindBox Studios
Recently chatted with Mindbox Studios. Impressive so far. " .... Mindbox Studios is a web design and development company located in Cincinnati, Ohio. We specialize...
From Wild WebMink
? OO.o, TDF and CLAs
Having read LWN’s (paywalled but accessible from here) interview with Mark Shuttleworth, where he is quoted as saying that the formation of The Document Foundation...
From Schneier on Security
CDC on the Zombie Apocalypse
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weigh in on preparations for the zombie apocalypse.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Animations in HTML5 With Hype
Nice potential alternative to using Flash for animations, given the problem with delivering Flash on some popular phones and Pads. Investigating further.
From Schneier on Security
The Normalization of Security
TSA-style security is now so normal that it's part of a Disney ride: The second room of the queue is now a security check area, similar to a TSA checkpoint. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Shopping is Changing
My colleague Walter Riker writes in his blog about how the nature of shopping is changing. Including a number of useful links. He follows trends and tech in retail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Abandons Newspaper Scans
Google has apparently abandoned their very ambitious plan to scan, and interpret the worlds past and present newspapers, and make them available via search. Having...
From Schneier on Security
Forged Subway Passes in Boston
For years, an employee of Cubic Corp -- the company who makes the automatic fair card systems for most of the subway systems around the world -- forged forged and...
From Putting People First
Publicity and the culture of celebritization
Danah Boyd, researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, wrote a long post on the social factors...
From Putting People First
To solve our healthcare crisis, home treatment needs a makeover
Instead of resembling outmoded PCs, home healthcare technology should look and feel like the other devices that surround us, argues Smart Design’s Dave Cronin in...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson