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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 The Eponymous Pickle
General Mills Innovation Portal
From Consumer Goods Technology, General Mills has created an innovation portal. " ... The new G-WIN innovation portal provides visitors with details on nearly 50...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fun Theory from Volkswagen
Via IFTF: The Fun Theory Site. Some ongoing contests for innovations in this space.' ... This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is...
From Putting People First
Answering the call to service design
Phi-Hong D. Ha, an interaction design and strategy consultant, discusses discusses the viability of the new field of service design with Steven Heller of AIGA Voice...
From Putting People First
The new fast ways of keeping in touch are driving us further apart
Email, texting and Facebook let us hide behind our computer screens instead of talking to each other. Elizabeth Day asks in The Observer if we have the tyranny...
From Putting People First
Nokia Life Tools tailored to the needs of Indonesians
Nokia Life Tools was designed to help improve the livelihood and lives of farmers, students and many people in more remote and rural areas in emerging market countries...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-04
The ACTA Internet Chapter: Putting the Pieces Together Michael Geist put the evidence together from the available "leaks" and shows us all whyACTA...
From Schneier on Security
Fear and Overreaction
It's hard work being prey. Watch the birds at a feeder. They're constantly on alert, and will fly away from food -- from easy nutrition -- at the slightest movement...
From Computational Complexity
Amir Pnueli (1941-2009)
Amir Pnueli, an expert in temporal logic and program verification who won the 1996 Turing Award, passed away Monday from a brain hemorrhage. His colleague Lenore...
From Putting People First
The Fuzzy Boundary: Four products that are also services
Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM was invited to speak at Kimiko Ryokai’s Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces class at UC Berkeley yesterday, where he discussed...
From Putting People First
Three DMI articles worth reading
Via the DMI November 2009 Newsletter, I came across a number of articles that are worthwhile exploring: What the Hell Have We Done to Design? (Really Thinking about...
From Putting People First
Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario
Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario Rohit Singh Overseas Development Institute, 2009 The number of mobile subscribers globally is estimated...
From Putting People First
The future of interface design
David Leggett provides on his UX Booth blog an overview of what the future of interface design has to offer. He covers various upcoming interface technologies such...
From Putting People First
Understanding users of social networks
Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Assistant Adds Store Flyers
Recently I mentioned the IPhone Shopper, a store shopping list and aisle context application. I have done some additional explorations with the idea. In a recent...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Are Your Students Good Problem Solvers, or Good Mimics?
Recently the topic of Computational Thinking has risen to the forefront of discussions of what our students should learn. Ignoring the facts that computational...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How the Brain Reveals Why we Buy
From Sciam, " ... an excerpt from Mindfield: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World by Lone Frank, to be released in the U.S. November 10 ... " A good lay introduction...
From Putting People First
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at Visualizar, Madrid
On Friday 13 (!) November, Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be one of the speakers at Visualizar’09, an international seminar on public data visualisation...
From Schneier on Security
Zero-Tolerance Policies
Recent stories have documented the ridiculous effects of zero-tolerance weapons policies in a Delaware school district: a first-grader expelled for taking a camping...
From Computational Complexity
Really Liked Bertinoro- Ramsey Thing
(Reminder: STOC Deadline Thursday Nov 5, 7:00PM, Eastern: link.) After yesterday's post about RaTLoCC 2009 (Ramsey Theory in Logic, Combinatorics, and Complexity)...
From The Eponymous Pickle