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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 Putting People First
Core77 book review: Exposing the Magic of Design, by Jon Kolko
Robert Blinn reviewed Jon Kolko’s new book Exposing the Magic of Design (amazon) for Core77: “Kolko’s book is subtitled “A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and...
From Putting People First
How do you create hybrid interfaces you touch, talk to and poke?
With so many ways to control our interfaces, from touch to voice, what’s the key to designing for them all? Rob Tannen gives his take on things: “Providing a choice...
From Putting People First
Rentalship is the new ownership in the networked age
Wired UK has published an article by David Rowan, that was published last month in his tech column in the UK’s Cond
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating Worst-Case Scenarios
From the work of Joshua M Epstein at Johns Hopkins. We had connected with him on the topic of 'Generative Social Science', based on his book of the same name. ...
From Wild WebMink
? Getting Online Abroad
One of the best travel purchases I have made is an unlocked high-speed USB 3G modem. It allows me to get broadband-speed internet access for the duration of each...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Reducing Squid Odor
Research from Japan: "Improvement of 'kurozukuri ika-shiokara' (fermented squid meat with ink) odor with Staphylococcus nepalensis isolated from the fish sauce...
From Schneier on Security
UK Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
A UK immigration officer decided to get rid of his wife by putting her on the no-fly list, ensuring that she could not return to the UK from abroad. This worked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft Social Media
Kraft ramps up social media in preparation for the Super Bowl.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation in the West
Colleague Sammy Haroon reports on innovation and entrepreneurism in the West.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Skills
I have recently been helping a few people use Linkedin for the first time and have found it complicated to set up the right kind of adaptable presence I think they...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-04
What to Do When You Receive a BSA Audit Letter The very best thing to do is write back and say "you are mistaken, we only use open source software and there is...
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist Targets of Choice
This makes sense. Generally, militants prefer to attack soft targets where there are large groups of people, that are symbolic and recognizable around the world...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kindergarten Computer Science
Well actually Karen North, an energetic elementary school computer science teacher and a friend of mine, has twice testified before the Texas State Board of Education...
From The Noisy Channel
Got Skills?
Last October, a certain blogger said: LinkedIn needs to implement
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning in Two Worlds: Supply Chain Adaptability
Very good piece in Wharton about supply chain adaptability:" ... Companies must create adaptable supply chains in a two-speed world that work for both slow- and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US and World Surnames
In the National Geographic, an interactive map of the relative uses of surnames in the US. This is a fun style infographic, but difficult to get specifics from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thingmagic and 100 Uses of RFID
I talked to Thingmagic about ten years ago, shortly after their creation from work started at MIT, when the enterprise took a close look at the uses of the 'internet...
From Wild WebMink
? Rating OpenJDK Governance
I used to be a member of the Interim Governance Board for the OpenJDK project I helped Sun start to host an open source implementation of the Java platform under...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality at the Big Game
Junaio and USA Today will be including an example of augmented reality at the Superbowl football game this weekend. This should expose this idea to many people...
From Computer Science Teachers Association