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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 Return 42;
Is Technology Easy?
In the 1993 paper The early history of Smalltalk, published in the ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28, Issue 3, Alan Kay wrote: A twentieth century problem is that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Markets from Communities
From Josh Bernoff in Groundswell: A number of interesting case studies about doing market research more economically and accurately by using communities of your...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of TV
A good catch up piece on technologies, incentives and directions re this topic. What will the consumer engagement media-mix of the very near future be? ... The...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - November 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 11)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the November issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Large Company Sustainability
I was recently asked what P&G was doing in the area of sustainability. Their positions, commitments, reports, video and background information can be found here...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Take Two Approach
I was talking to a gentleman the other day who has a successful mentorship program in his line of business. I was amazed at the simplicity of his model. It started...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Impact of Technology in the Classroom
In August, a Communications of ACM article had me thinking about whether technology has become a need in education. Today, a friend of a friend is going to interview...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 30
December 3 Meeting: The Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee will meet 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 490 L'Enfant Plaza S.W., Washington...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Learning and the Social Web: A Call for Papers (new deadline)
We have extended the deadline of our call for papers on Learning and the Social Web (http://socialwebjetwi.info/). It is a special issue for the Journal of Emerging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning in Turbulence
Just brought to my attention: Winning in Turbulence, by Darrell Rigby. On my reading list. Excerpts on the Bain site. ' ... Turbulence creates extraordinary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guilt Trips
In Martin Lindstrom's latest newsletter: Fighting Back Against Shoppers' Guilt. A piece about how ' ... Guilt has always been part of the shopping experience.....
From Schneier on Security
The Psychology of Being Scammed
This is a very interesting paper: "The Real Hustle, which does hidden camera demonstrations of con games. (There's no DVD of the show available, but there areprevious...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-30
Why can't Google be more like Microsoft? Repeat after me: open source means more than just the license. We need a scorecard. (And before youFOSS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers Saving Hospitals Money
A Harvard survey that says that IT rarely saves hospitals money. A shocker to me. I have been a close-up observer of how systems are used in hospitals. I guess...
From Computational Complexity
The 17x17 challenge. Worth $289.00. This is not a joke.
The 17x17 challenge: worth $289.00. I am not kidding. Definition: The n x m grid is c-colorable if there is a way to c-color the vertices of the n x m grid soThe...
From Apophenia
Sociality Is Learning
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. As adults...
From Putting People First
Social media
Social media could transform the UK National Health Service and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference...
From Putting People First
Identifying emerging trends at Nokia
Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, faces increasing competition from the likes of Apple and Google Android. Identifying emerging trends and building...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayes Methods and Manufacturing
Regret won't be able to attend this, is of technical interest:Directed Bayes with High-Level Data Applied in Manufacturing by Theodore T. Allen, Ph.D. Associate...
From The Eponymous Pickle