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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 Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-19
Open Source Business Models Redux There is no "open source business model" - people only think so because the novel business models...
From Putting People First
The dirty little secret about the
Sarah Perez criticises on ReadWriteWeb the common view on crowdsourcing: “Recent research by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) professor Vassilis Kostakos pokes...
From Putting People First
Mobiles offer lifelines in Africa
Ken Banks, creator of FrontlineSMS, wrote a guest piece for BBC News. His main claim: “If you want to see how east Africa may respond to the arrival of high-speed...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Embracing Your Inner Squid
Interview with Jonathan Coulton.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Accenture do Internet Innovation
In Consumergoods. About time they are really seriously working on this:P&G Taps Accenture for Innovative Web Technology The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is teaming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Views of the Semantic Web
A Guide to practical semantic web technologes. Just reviewed again, it is worth looking at.
From Computational Complexity
You Will All Work for Google
Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, Luis von Ahn's project to use humans to aid transcribing old documents. We consider Luis an honorary theorist and congrats for the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Global Teams
Good overview piece, a situation I have seen much of: Creating Successful Global TeamsMust build trust and bridge cultural differences, By Peggy AlbrightThese days...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-18
The Search "The world's first ant colony to achieve sentience calls off the search for us." (tagsxkcd comic Astronomy...
From Schneier on Security
Modifying the Color-Coded Threat Alert System
I wrote about the DHS's color-coded threat alert system in 2003, in Beyond Fear: The color-coded threat alerts issued by the Department of Homeland Security are...
From My Biased Coin
FOCS Early Registration (A Tale of 3 Web Sites)
I was asked by the powers that be to remind everyone of the early registration deadline for FOCS 2009, which is October 1. Registration and hotel information can...
From Putting People First
Worldchanging interview: Vinay Venkatraman on interaction design
Vinay Venkatraman, an interaction designer, is one of a rapidly expanding group of scholars and professionals around the world working to define the way our stuff...
From Putting People First
The use of mobile phones in education in developing countries
The World Bank is embarking on a new study investigating issues related to the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries. “The study is intended...
From Putting People First
Peer pressure and other pitches
Michael Sanserino reports in the Wall Street Journal on the latest applications of insights in behavioural economics: “More businesses are using behavioral economics...
From Putting People First
New EU discussion paper and consultation: Fostering user-driven innovation through clusters
“Involving users in the innovation process seems to be increasingly recognised as an important challenge not only for enterprises, but also for innovation support...
From Putting People First
Success stories in design management
An article published by the European Commission’s Enterprise & Industry department: “Design management is a key driver of innovation and competitiveness and the...
From CERIAS Blog
Odds & Ends
Cyber Leap Year Summit I've heard from many, many people who read my blog post about this. So far, everyone who attended and was not involved with the planningHere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Store Simulation and Category Placement
I met today with Herb Sorensen and Bill Hruby to see TNS's just released Atlas Store Datamining Tool. An impressive piece of work that takes insights from HerbInside...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity in the Light of Fairness
Let me start by saying I am new to this board of directors and I do not really have a good feel for what YOU want to hear or read about just yet
From Computational Complexity