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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Wondering whether DARPA has changed?
If there is any doubt in your mind (or even if there is not!), read the testimony delivered by Regina Dugan to the House Armed Services Committee on March 23.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau IPhone Visualization
Michael Cristiani sends along a link to a test App for Tableau to do BI style visualization on the IPhone. Nice idea, I think having mobile visual business intelligence...
From The Noisy Channel
The Evolution of Social Search
Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to attend the New York Semantic Web Meetup, which featured three excellent presentations. I’ll confess that I primarily...
From The Noisy Channel
New Toys from Hunch
I’ve been following Hunch for a while, and my impression has evolved from the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuropod
Newly discovered: ' ... NeuroPod is the neuroscience podcast from Nature, produced in association with the Dana Foundation. Each month, join us as we delve into...
From Putting People First
Design for social innovation
Petz Scholtus reports in TreeHugger on presentations by Alastair Fuad-Luke, Gui Bonsiepe and Alfred Astort during the recent 1st International Congress of Design...
From Wild WebMink
? Politics of Copyright
The Politics of Intellectual Property by Jessica Litman This much shorter paper (from a conference address) is valuable as an explanation and description from a...
From Putting People First
AP
A new study by the Associated Press has come to the conclusion that consumers are
From The Eponymous Pickle
EmSense Announces New Headgear
New sensory development in EEG sensors: ' ... EmSense proprietary sensors provide more targeted measurement with greater precision than medical sensors. The Contact...
From Putting People First
New methods for user driven innovation in the health care sector
This project of the Nordic Innovation Center aimed to draw attention to user driven innovation in the health care sector, and to develop and test methods for user...
From Putting People First
Private lives
Our personal details are used everywhere. And it’s more easy to share, mine and exploit them than ever before. This new report by the UK think tank Demos is an...
From Putting People First
World Bank, Nokia fund mobile app labs in Africa
The World Bank in partnership with mobile handset maker Nokia is set to fund the establishment of mobile applications laboratories in Africa in a move to boost...
From Putting People First
What does ethnography give you that statistics don
Qualitative, and especially observational or ethnographic, research enables us to delve much more deeply into the relationship between our firm and its product/service...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computing and the Common Core
K-12 computer science education might get a boost from a recently released document called the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). This initiative is...
From Schneier on Security
Schneier Blogging Template
Eerily accurate: Catchy one-liner ("interesting," with link): In this part of the blog post, Bruce quotes something from the article he links to in the catchy...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computing and the Common Core
K-12 computer science education might get a boost from a recently released document called the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). This initiative is...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Write Good Papers: My Slides
I agreed to give a talk to graduate students on how to write good research papers. I have posted the slides of my talk online. They are mostly taken out of my web...
From Schneier on Security