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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - September 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 9)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Expresses Concern About IP Piracy Enforcement Bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee recently introduced the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act to fight piracy of intellectual property. That is an...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Usable Security
One of the sessions I attended on Wednesday at GHC was a PhD forum. In this special type of session, three PhD students present their research in an hour, andLaurian...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Impact of the Grace Hopper Celebration
In addition to my own blog, I'm writing a few posts for the Communications of ACM blog about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.From my first...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BMW Integrates IPads
Report in Engadget: BMW has shown an integration of IPads into the back seats of one of their cars. Interesting and amusing. I am assuming these would then be...
From Putting People First
Crowdsourcing: turning customers into creative directors
Is turning your customers into both creative director and chief of research the ideal low-cost model for business? The BBC reports on the role of crowdsourcing...
From Putting People First
Facebook exec: All media will be personalized in 3 to 5 years
Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in New York today that in the next three to five years, a website that isn’t tailored to a specific user’s...
From Putting People First
Manuel Castells: Mobile internet will outstrip
By 2014, the number of mobile internet users will surpass the number of users browsing the internet via a desktop computer, says a former adviser to Barack Obama’s...
From Schneier on Security
Wiretapping the Internet
On Monday, The New York Times reported that President Obama will seek sweeping laws enabling law enforcement to more easily eavesdrop on the internet. Technologies...
From Putting People First
What does the Internet of Things mean for UX people?
Last week, the Sixth European Information Architecture Summit took place in Paris, and all the presentations are already online. Here are a few that caught my attention...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Innovation Center in Asia
Procter & Gamble continues to open new innovation centers. Increasingly focused to region and goal. Just begun in Singapore " ... the LWC-S is an independent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Jobs
In Small Business Labs: Future jobs that are available today. A look at job, primarily technically related, that are exploding today.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Texting with no Hands
In GigaOM: An Android App that allows texting and receiving texts without hands. The dangers of texting and driving are much in the news. A possible solution....
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Sight Seeing in Atlanta
I arrived in Atlanta on Monday for this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The conference officially started on Tuesday night, so we had aAtlanta...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurofocus Announces own Standards
Nielsen associated Neuromarketing company Neurofocus sets up their own standards. They further offer to share these standards with companies. You can hardly set...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Augmented Reality
Just received from Metaio. This is interesting because it talks about both a definition of AR and its direction. This is clearly a marketing piece, but it does...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Phones Nagging Patients
In CACM: a study about using a cell phone to improve pharma compliance. Not a new idea at all. The general idea was demonstrated in the contextual innovation centers...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Publications
There is an interesting list of NSA publications in this document, pages 30
From Wild WebMink
? Unplanned Consequences
The “legal blackmail” business: inside a P2P settlement factory Very interesting article. The practice of “legal blackmail” extends further than this, of course...
From Computational Complexity