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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
Creating a patient-centered future for health care
Minneapolis firm Worrell looked at the future of health care through the patient’s perspective. Fast Company’s Co.Design site reports. “When it comes to designing...
From Putting People First
Forrester Research: Many social networkers happy just to lurk
Online social networks are growing, but the percentage of users uploading content to sites like YouTube and Facebook has “plateaued” worldwide, according to a report...
From Putting People First
PhD: Mobile phone use by young adults in India: a case study
“Mobile phone use by young adults in India: a case study”, the PhD thesis of Priyanka Matanhelia at the University of Maryland, is available online. Abstract This...
From Putting People First
UK campaign for inquiry into
The potential transformation of our brains caused by intensive use of computers and the internet is a threat to our quality of life on the same scale as risks to...
From Putting People First
US market research: Few Americans are consuming digital media
Connected devices are still having trouble finding a mass audience, a new report from market-research firm The NPD Group has found. But that is likely to change...
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In study, children cite appeal of digital reading
Many children want to read books on digital devices, while parents worry that technology will distract young bookworms, according to a survey by the publisher Scholastic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Questions in Neuroscience Symposium
Ongoing ... note also that founder Paul G Allen is now on Twitter ... ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE2010 Annual Symposium: Open Questions in NeuroscienceSeptember...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mission Control for Social Media and Retail
In AdAge: Gatorade has established an interesting 'mission control' room for tracking how their message is working. " ... In a room crammed with flat-screen monitors...
From Schneier on Security
Stealing Money from a Safe with a Vacuum
Clever: The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the "pneumatic tube" that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Case Studies
Just brought to my attention for a study: A set of case studies from the eye-tracking vendor Tobii that covers a number of capabilities and study contexts. Previous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple TV
Apple TV is to arrive by this Friday. Sounds like an interesting change is underway. " ... Apple's focus is on selling you 99
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Facebook Sells You
A very instructive piece in the current Bloomberg Businessweek on How Facebook Sells You.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Apps Culture
Pew Internet on the rise of Apps culture. Or based on the stats, perhaps a non-apps culture: " ... Some 35% of U.S. adults have software applications or
From Computational Complexity
Review of Lipton's Book-Blog/Review of Goldreich and Arora-Barak/New Book Review Column/Do you want to review?
My review of Lipton's new blog-book is here. It will appear in my SIGACT NEWS at some later time. Daniel Apon's joint review of Computational Complexity: A...
From Wild WebMink
? Transitions
LibreOffice – A fresh page for OpenOffice This is a good and balanced article that is worth reading. At Sun I tried several times to get a Foundation started for...
From Schneier on Security
Cultural Cognition of Risk
This is no surprise: The people behind the new study start by asking a pretty obvious question: "Why do members of the public disagree
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Would you play this game?
I love puzzles and small little programming projects. When you can combine those two at get a project that you can use for a good learning/teaching experience it...
From Wild WebMink
? Travel Security
I have been travelling this week on Europe’s low-cost airlines, and have realised that there is only one way to make air travel secure, and that is to take security...
From Wild WebMink
Why Open Source Is Free
My classic essay on Payment At The Point Of Value has finally made it on to the Essays page on this site. Now that community-centric open source is once again returning...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog