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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
? Names Matter
Open Core: The worst of both worlds "Open core tries to find a middle ground between proprietary software and free software, but...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Is Sharpening Its Squares
As some of you may remember, I’m excited about Google Squared, a project I see as a great first step toward exploratory search at a web scale. Yes, I know that...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - October 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 10)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the October issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...
From Schneier on Security
Pigs Defeating RFID-Enabled Feeding Systems
Pretty clever (for a pig, that is).
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sample Size in Neuromarketing Studies
On of the most contentious issues for studies in the newly emerging field and business of Neuromarketing is sample size. Generally marketing analyses that attempt...
From Putting People First
Wired UK
Here are the five stories that appeared in the special “Digital Cities” feature of Wired UK’s November issue. Words on the street by Adam Greenfield Ubiquitous,...
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Vidcast 2
Bill and I battle it out over what should be taught in a complexity course in our new vidcast.
From Schneier on Security
1,000 Cybersecurity Experts
Yesterday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the U.S. needed to hire 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years. Bob Cringly doubts that there...
From Putting People First
Inside user research at YouTube
User experience researcher Sasha Lubomirsky talks about his work at YouTube: “If you think about watching a video online, it may seem pretty easy. A player, a play...
From Putting People First
The city as an interaction platform
Martijn de Waal was at the Picnic 2009 conference in Amsterdam, where he attended the session entitled “The City as an Interaction Platform”: Cities have always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Ads for Phones
In E-Commerce Times. Google had developed a new piece of code for phones with HTTP browsers to allow the display of advanced ads on mobile platforms. Mobile capabilities...
From Putting People First
Toward an integrated approach to product strategy and design
San Francisco-based user experience consultancy Montparnas started a three-part series on the relationship between product development and user experience design...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-09
The Foundations of Openness Very interesting paper from none other than Pia Waugh on the subject of constructing a software freedom...
From My Biased Coin
PCing
This week I got my batches of papers to review for NSDI and LATIN. If I'm quiet for a while, I'm busy reading (and writing reviews). Needless to say, I didn't...
From Schneier on Security
The Futility of Defending the Targets
This is just silly: Beaver Stadium is a terrorist target. It is most likely the No. 1 target in the region. As such, it deserves security measures commensurate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SASCom on Retail
Sascom Magazine reports on learnngs ' ... Last week at the SAS Retail Executive Seminar held in Cary, NC ... was able to catch up with industry leaders and ask...
From Wild WebMink
Building a Scorecard for Open Source
In my previous posts, I've drawn an analogy between open source software and organic food, hinting that in both cases the rush to create a working brand lost some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Plans Beauty Magazine
P&G to Launch Custom Beauty Magazine Rouge in U.S.: Package Goods Giant Plans to Build Database by Relying on Mommy Bloggers to Spread the Word. Nice to see bloggers...
From The Eponymous Pickle