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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 Schneier on Security
The Comparative Risk of Terrorism
Good essay from the Wall Street Journal: It might be unrealistic to expect the average citizen to have a nuanced grasp of statistically based risk analysis, but...
From Putting People First
Denmark Leads the way in Digital Care
Using medical devices and notebook computers, Danish patients can see doctors without leaving home, and have the information automatically logged into electronic...
From Putting People First
A MobileActive.org whitepaper on scaling mobile services for development
Katrin Verclas of MobileActive.org has published a whitepaper entitled “Scaling Mobile Services for Development: What Will It Take?”. The paper, originially commissioned...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on a Minority Report Interface
A Minority Report Interface shown at CES. When I see Minority Report style gestural interfaces I wonder if this kind of interaction with jump the physical process...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Engineer Barbie!
Barbie has had over 120 careers!
From Putting People First
Yahoo studies social science
Yahoo Labs is beefing up its ranks of social scientists, adding highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities...
From Putting People First
The bridge between cultures and design
Microsoft’s Joe Fletcher contributed an intriguing article on software UX in India and China on the ever more interesting Johnny Holland site: “Over roughly the...
From Putting People First
The service design era
In a two-part series, Korea’s JoongAng Daily newspaper looks at the rise of service design and the notion that modern product designers need to look well beyond...
From Schneier on Security
My Second CNN.com Essay on the Underwear Bomber
This one is about our tendency to overreact to rare risks, and is an update of this 2007 essay. I think we should start calling them the "underpants of mass destruction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ten Companies to Collaborate around Insight
From Research, an interesting concept, including competitors: ' ... Diageo, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft and Procter & Gamble are among 10 companies taking part...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Metro overtakes Tesco
Metro has overtaken Tesco as the word's second largest retailer in sales.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The end of
In the late sixties and seventies, we wanted universities to become more accessible. We founded the Open University, the Universit
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 01/11/2010
Carl Zimmer: Science Writing Workshop Later This Month Carl Zimmer is teaching a one-week science writing workshop for science grad students. Martin Rees: A Level...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Actual programming with HTML and CSS (without javascript)
I usually stick with academic or research issues, but today, I wanted to have some fun. Geek fun. While W3C describes Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as a mechanism...
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post on ICS 2010 (1 of 3)
Innovations in Computer Science 2010 (post #1) Guest post by Aaron Sterling This is the first of three posts about ICS 2010, the much-discussed "concept...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Small Business Labs
Always interesting Small Business Labs posts on employee satisfaction, boomer retirement and small business formation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Weather to Marketing
A favorite topic is how some retailers and manufacturers can link demand planning to weather. We studied this possibilities as early as the 1970s. Obvious relationships...
From Schneier on Security
768-bit Number Factored
News: On December 12, 2009, we factored the 768-bit, 232-digit number RSA-768 by the number field sieve. The number RSA-768 was taken from the now obsolete RSA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 January 2010
I’m headed to Tuesday night. I’m looking forward to helping with some Expression Web workshops and spending time at the Microsoft booth. I’m also hoping to meet...
From Wild WebMink