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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 Putting People First
EU ministers: accessible, interactive and customised online public services in Europe by 2015
EU press release (link): EU ministers have committed to developing smarter online public services for citizens and businesses by 2015. The Commission has welcomed...
From Computational Complexity
Laptops in Church?
There are now bibles online where you can click for different versions, different translations, different interepretations, historical context, etc. The same is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Incorporating Consumer Insight into Marketing
From Jeffrey D. Mills of ThinkVine
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Chips
From IEEE Spectrum: IBM Unveils New Brain Simulator. ' ... Scientists and engineers at IBM revealed yesterday that they have created the largest brain simulation...
From Putting People First
Designing social interfaces: overview and practical techniques
Dmitry Fadeyev, founder of the Usability Post blog, wrote an article for Smashing Magazine “to demonstrate the power of social interface design”. he standard approach...
From Putting People First
Various articles on the power of the mobile phone in emerging markets
A number of articles illustrate the power of the mobile phone in emerging markets: What next after the Mobile revolution in Kenya? by John Karanja MPESA will be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics
This afternoon at 3PM EST, a DM radio broadcast on Predictive analytics. Which they enthusiastically call an enterprise crystal ball. The broadcast is also recorded...
From Schneier on Security
A Taxonomy of Social Networking Data
At the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh this week, there was a conversation on social networking data. Someone made the point that there are several...
From Wild WebMink
? Sometimes the Improbable is the Answer
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers A bit of apocalyptic sci-fi, but no less plausible than the other scenarios.Sun...
From Schneier on Security
Stabbing People with Stuff You Can Get Through Airport Security
"Use of a pig model to demonstrate vulnerability of major neck vessels to inflicted trauma from common household items," from the American Journal of Forensic Medical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Sensing
Introduction of attachable NFC/RFID reader for the IPhone. Yet another smart phone sensing example. And speculation that next generation IPhones will include NFC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Verizon Hub
A wireless VOIP Hub phone.Have now seen a number of ads for the Verizon Hub phone. It has now been around for a while. A phone that provides central family functionality...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media Impact
Good piece on SNCR research on social media and decision making. The Post emphasises the professional use and collaboration using social media. Some useful statistics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Takeover
In Foresight: A view of the different levels of intelligence that would be required to take over from the intelligence of humans. Our own exploration of AI was...
From Schneier on Security
How Smart are Islamic Terrorists?
Organizational Learning and Islamic Militancy (May 2009) was written by Michael Kenney for the U.S. Department of Justice. It's long: 146 pages. From the executive...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
CS Unplugged: Image Representation and Searching Algorithms
When I did some computer science outreach in the summer for the Girls @ Virtual Ventures camp, I promised them that if they came back for the weekend clubs in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Global Social Media Push
In AdAge: Behind Coca-Cola's Biggest Social-Media Push YetHow Expedition 206's Global Search for Happiness Came Together ... Coca-Cola is gearing up for its largest...
From Computational Complexity
FOCS Videos
As I tweeted yesterday, the videos of talks from the 2009 FOCS conference are now online. Thanks to FOCS PC chair Daniel Spielman and Georgia Tech's ARC Centercollected...
From My Biased Coin
Job Advice?
Not for me, thank goodness. A very talented graduating senior (who may or may not be Harvard...) has obtained a number of job offers, and asked me if I had any...
From Putting People First