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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
SXSW Conference Stream
I notice that there has been more than usual buzz about the SXSW conference (South by Southwest) this year. Its a set of interactive, film, and music festivalsits...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Valuing Spontaneity
I was surprised a while back by getting a number of birthday wishes in a social networking package from people whose names I did not immediately recognize. I quickly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare for Business
An interesting item on on the Foursquare space about business applications for the social networking game. Includes a number of examples of businesses doing promotions...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Spontaneity Overrated?
It used to be a surprise when people remembered our birthdays, but in the twenty-first century Facebook ensures that we will
From Apophenia
Speaking about Privacy and Publicity
Yesterday I gave the opening keynote at SXSW to over 5000 people (OMG, that room was huuuuuuuge). My talk was about privacy and publicity and I spent a lot of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognition and Culture
Mind Hacks posts about the Cognition and Culture blog: ' ... covers the territory where culture and psychology meet ... ' . Also points to their reader section...
From Putting People First
Four visions of the world tomorrow
Sir George Cox was the closing speaker at The Big Rethink, a ‘Redesigning Business Summit’ organised by The Economist, in association with the Design Council, that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
When BI Does not Work
Interesting piece on the issues with BI. ' ... When a user of a BI application complains about the application not being useful - something that I hear way too-...
From Putting People First
Urban resilience
Merging complex systems science and ecology, resilience scientists have broken new ground on understanding
From Putting People First
The digital disconnect
In relentless pursuit of ‘connecting,’ we miss out on each other The Seattle Times argues that while communication and gaming gadgets have convenienced and connected...
From My Biased Coin
And More Fun News....
Right after Stuart Shieber sent me news on CS undergrad earnings, Harry Lewis sent me two additional links. The first is a nice Boston Globe piece on the increase...
From My Biased Coin
Good News for Computer Science Majors
Undergraduate computer science majors, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, are still getting paid well. If you don't want to be an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Richer Geolocation
In MIT Tech Review, Getting More from Location Data: Companies are working to add value to geospatial information. For those already playing in this space much...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Thoughts on a Second Life
Its been over a year since I have been to the virtual world Second Life. Before that I was a user, watched in real time as IBM programmers build their own spaces...
From Putting People First
Torino tags its monuments for tourists
The Italian city of Torino just launched “The Colors of Torino“, helping tourists through Microsoft’s Color Tags at monuments and tourist attractions. If you want...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing the Uses of the Internet
Richard L. James sends along a link to a BBC treemap visualization of the use of the Internet based on Nielsen data. You can float your mouse over the chart totreemap...
From Putting People First
Guardian supplement on service design
The Guardian, one of the leading UK newspapers, has publish an eight-page supplement on service design – subtitled “Design innovation in the public and private...
From The Eponymous Pickle