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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 Computational Complexity
Breaking Walls
Many of you readers don't remember a time when there were two Germanys or when we didn't think IP = PSPACE. Two walls collapsed in November of 1989 that changed...
From Putting People First
Matt Webb presentation at UX Week 2009 (video)
Matt Webb of Berg was one of the speakers at UX Week 2009, a conference in San Francisco organised by Adapative Path. In his presentation “Design Is In Your Hands...
From Putting People First
Designing for a sustainable world
To celebrate World Usability Day 2009, System Concepts has put together a video podcast exploring how different stakeholders can enhance the user experience of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Which should you pick: a bitmap index or a B-tree?
Morteza Zaker sent me pointer to their work comparing bitmap indexes and B-trees in the Oracle database. They examine the folklore surrounding bitmap indexes—which...
From Putting People First
Towards human-centred knowledge management tools
Institute for the Future just released its latest research report, Knowledge Tools of the Future, written by Alex Pang and Mike Love. The report takes an in-depth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bing and Wolfram Alpha
In what is a useful direction, Bing and Wolfram Alpha are collaborating. Google already does some of this by understanding some kinds of numerical dimensionality...
From Schneier on Security
Security in a Reputation Economy
In the past, our relationship with our computers was technical. We cared what CPU they had and what software they ran. We understood our networks and how they worked...
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Destroying Manufacturing Jobs
You probably have one, a sink garbage disposer, many are made by Emerson Electric along with other electrical equipment. Emerson's CEO says the US Government is...
From Computational Complexity
New York Theory Day
IBM-NYU-COLUMBIA theory day on Dec 11 ! Here is pointer to more information: here My advice: If you are able to go (distance, time, money all okay) then you...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking the Brazil Power Grid
We've seen lots of rumors about attacks against the power grid, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, of people hacking the power grid. Seems like the source of these...
From Putting People First
Nokia The Way We Live Next 3.0
The third edition of Nokia’s The Way We Live Next conference took place yesterday and today in Espoo, Finland. Nokia’s blog, Nokia Conversations, reports on a few...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Artistic Bar Codes
In FastCompany: Examples of using art embedded in standard barcodes. I have seen this before, but have yet to see it in the wild. Do shoppers pay attention to...
From Putting People First
Using ethnography to improve user experience
Bonny Colville-Hyde of CX Partners has written a good introductory article on the value of ethnographic research. How can you ensure your service stands out from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Open Source Go
Google has released its internally used open source language GO. Taking a look. And here. For rapid application development and scalability.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
How to Use Social Media to Benefit Your Career
Carleton's Women in Science and Engineering's November guest speaker event last night was about How to Use Social Media to Benefit Your Career. With a generalVirtualEyeSee...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
ISMAR09: A Few Demos
There were many cool demos at ISMAR this year, and you can check out the description of them in the conference schedule. In this post, I've included a few photos...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Backing Out of Google
It was not too long ago that sites were falling over themselves to get found on search engines, and particularly on Google. Now an alternative strategy is popping...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Procrastination can be your friend
Procrastination can be a serious problem leading to job loss, high anxiety and even significant psychological disability and dysfunction (according to wikipedia)...
From Putting People First
Accenture says tech-driven approach to CE innovation outdated
Consumer electronics companies must rethink the old technology-driven approach to innovation because industry convergence has made this model obsolete, claims a...
From Putting People First