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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
Blogging to Drive Business
After a number of warnings following around blogging be passe lately, its good to see a new book on blogging and business ... '" ... From Eric Butow and Rebecca...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-20
A Big Victory for F/OSS: Jacobsen v. Katzer is Settled A crucial and foundational legal finding that establishes violation of open...
From The Noisy Channel
Holding Back the Rise of the Machines?
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is one of my favorite examples of leveraging the internet for innovation: Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Time on Advertising Sounds
A Time Mag article: Now Hear This. A good piece, on sounds in advertising, see also my previous post on Martin Lindstrom and Buyology Inc's work in this area.
From Putting People First
The Internet in 2020
A new report on the future of the internet, based on interviews of nearly 900 internet stakeholders and critics, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet...
From Putting People First
How evidence-based design leads to better patient outcomes
Barbara Pantuso, director of healthcare innovation at frog design, reports on health outcomes and financial implications of Evidence-Based Design (EBD). “It
From Putting People First
Who needs banks if you have a mobile phone?
Cellphone-based money transfer is transforming the prospects of people who live without bank accounts or ATMs
From Schneier on Security
Cyber Shockwave Test
There was a big U.S. cyberattack exercise this week. We didn't do a This is, I think, an eyewitness report.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
20% and Open Doors
I recently read Ken Auletta's book Googled, about the creation and rise of Google. I read it as both a techno-geek and as an educator. There were two particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking Smartphone Tags
I happened on a demonstration of Talking Tag by Air Arts via Ven Cheva while I was in Chicago yesterday. A clever and simple idea that attaches an audio track (or...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Learning Computer Science and Algorithms with Augmented Reality
This is the third and last post in a three-part series of design proposals for augmented reality learning applications. These are from a paper I wrote in my computers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Products from Procter
From the WSJ: Expect a flurry of new products from P&G: ' Robert McDonald, CEO of Procter & Gamble, said the company's growth strategies "are starting to work"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
World's Most Addictive Sounds Discovered
From Martin Lindstrom: Analyzing sounds" ... The article probes the results of a new 9-month study conducted by the New York Buyology Inc., team, in partnership...
From Schneier on Security
Al-Mabhouh Assassination
It reads like a very professional operation: Security footage of the killers' movements during the afternoon, released by police in Dubai yesterday, underlines...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Nostalgia
Last week someone on the SIGCSE mailing list mentioned that they learned to program in FORTRAN, using punch cards on an IBM 1130. Well so did I and I said so. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and Dating
Steve King reports on Data and Dating in Small Biz Labs. The topic has always been of interest to me. I worked with some matching algorithms in the enterprise,...
From Putting People First
Design bugs out
The Design Council and the Department of Health partner to combat the spread of infection in U.K. hospitals. David Sokol reports in Metropolis Magazine. “Patients...
From Computational Complexity
A problem about Graph Partitions (guest post)
(Guest post from Richard Taylor who requests information on a problem.) The following graph partition problem arises in connection with studies I am doing on...
From Schneier on Security