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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Getting serious about online teaching
Earlier this month, Michael Mitzenmacher told us about the record number of students attending his Harvard class online-only.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Decisions Through Analytics
Tom Davenport podcast on better decisions through analytics, in the HBR Blog.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Harrowgate's 1886 Giant Squid
I have no idea how to explain this.
From My Biased Coin
Paper updates
We updated our Swoopo paper, Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank, mostly making small writing improvements and typo fixes that...
From Putting People First
Nokia
User experience is one of the most important success factors of a mobile application, according to Nokia. Therefore the company created a web section that describes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shifting Back to National Brands
In the WSJ: ' ... Shoppers are starting to open their wallets again for brand-name household basics, but it's taking lower prices, heavy advertising and new products...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FourSquare in Retail
Drew McLellan on Foursquare in the Marketing Prof Daily Fix. In particular he talks about its use as a location-based loyalty play. I was in NYC earlier this week...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - January 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 1)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the January issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Las Vegas Facility Used for Consumer Research
Using these contextual spaces in focus-group style forums is an old idea. What is most interesting is that number of non-conscious, biometric capabilities are now...
From Schneier on Security
Tracking Your Browser Without Cookies
How unique is your browser? Can you be tracked simply by its characteristics? The EFF is trying to find out. Their site Panopticlick will measure the characteristics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook, Twitter and Procter
David Hornik posts in the Venture Blog. Sounds familiar, lots underway still, and there are special challenges for large complex, global organizatons. Scale also...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Desire and Perception
Intriquing proposition: Desire influences visual perceptionWe tend to assume that we see our surroundings as they really are, and that our perception of reality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How do You Augment Reality?
Have also done some experimentation about how three dimensional visualizations can be overlaid on physical environments, with thoughts especially to retail contexts...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Language, Learning and Literacy in a Digital Age
Kids fail at school because they are learning in a language that's foreign to them.That's the first thing I wrote down at a talk given at Carleton last week by ...
From Computational Complexity
Referees'''' reports
A commenter a LOOOOONG time ago left the following: Tell me, Gasarch, how in the world do you get your papers published when you consistently skip the apostrophe...
From Apophenia
Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America"
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed...
From Schneier on Security
World Privacy Day and the Madrid Privacy Declaration
Today is World Privacy Day. (I know; it's odd to me, too.) You can celebrate by signing on to the Madrid Privacy Declaration, either as an individual or as an...
From The Eponymous Pickle