From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
…
B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
Is there an alternative to the seemingly inevitable cuts to public services? Hilary Cottam of Participle poses the question.
“The scale of the challenge to our...Experientia From Putting People First | May 16, 2010 at 09:37 PM
Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd doesn’t need much introduction as her outspoken and well-developed analysis is frequently quoted on this blog. Two long articles...Experientia From Putting People First | May 16, 2010 at 09:34 PM
Wired UK has published a long article on P2P money-lending in its June issue:
The article devotes particular attention to Kiva.org, a San Francisco-based peer-to...Experientia From Putting People First | May 16, 2010 at 09:32 PM
Mike Gualtieri and Mary Gerush of Forrester Research have just published a paper entitled Business Analysts: Seize the opportunity to deliver compelling user experiences...Experientia From Putting People First | May 16, 2010 at 09:29 PM
The concept of soft reliability came up again in a recent conversation. Had not brought it up here for more that a year. Good overview site here. If anyone has...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | May 16, 2010 at 05:45 PM
Research scientists Cameron Marlow (Facebook Inc.) and D.J. Patil (LinkedIn Corp.) have access to the interactions of groups of people that outnumber populations...Experientia From Putting People First | May 16, 2010 at 05:34 PM
I have always thought that Linkedin had a messy user interface. It especially confuses new users, who I heard from in the enterprise. Just read of some changesMore...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | May 16, 2010 at 05:32 PM
Adrian Chan has written a thoughtful post about “teasing apart the objective and subjective dimensions of social media, to examine whatExperientia From Putting People First | May 16, 2010 at 05:22 PM
From CACM on the idea of self-healing software. Mention of some IBM research in this area. Several years ago I went to a meeting on complexity modeling at IBM...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | May 16, 2010 at 05:11 PM
While I intentionally try to avoid the political on this blog, I did make an exception previously when I heard that the Harvard Robobees project had made #1 onthe...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 16, 2010 at 02:39 PM
Met Office: Five Day Volcanic Ash Charts Volcano forecasts have arrived. From the looks of these charts it's touch-and-go whether I will be able to fly home on...Simon Phipps From Wild WebMink | May 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM
I was just looking at LinkedIn and found myself pleasantly surprised by a minor UI improvement in the “People You May Know” widget: as you delete people you don’t...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 15, 2010 at 08:50 PM
From day one, Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to become a utility. He succeeded. Facebook is now a utility. The problem with utilities is that they get regulated...zephoria From Apophenia | May 15, 2010 at 08:46 PM
This is just so brilliant that I had to post it here. I’ve blogged in the past about alerting spam, but this guy took the idea to a new level, with great return...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 15, 2010 at 07:19 PM
On the list, but not on the stack yet. Nicholas Carr's new book: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains . Look forward to reading it.Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | May 15, 2010 at 07:12 PM
Excuse me if you have already found this gem, but I was sent this link and immediately formed a strong view that I'd like to meet Michael Trucano:
http://blogs... From Computer Science Teachers Association | May 15, 2010 at 06:33 PM
I just bought two Android phones for the family. I am still using an IPhone. I have become interested in a comparison of the two options. This post has some...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | May 15, 2010 at 06:03 PM
Dangerous to say never, but Dell says that Smartphones will never kill the PC. I see it somewhat like calculators versus cash registers. There will always be...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | May 15, 2010 at 03:14 PM