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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 Return 42;
Congratulations to Susan Dumais
Today, the ACM issued a press release that Susan Dumais from Microsoft Research (formerly Bell Labs/Bellcore) received the Gerard Salton Award for her innovative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
You are Approach the End of the Moving Walkway
Moving walkways. You have seen them in airports, Vegas and in limited ways in transit systems. Why have they not taken off more broadly? They have a surprisingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Worlds in Business
Building, Populating, and Interacting with Virtual Worlds. I continue to believe this is something to figure out, though I have yet to see a solution that does...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Electronic Design Automation
In IEEE Spectrum, a good example of mixing the pattern recognition capabilities of humans and complex simulations. Essentially a game and an excellent exampleCrowdsourcing...
From Apophenia
Teens Don't Tweet... Or Do They?
Yesterday, Mashable reported Nielsen's latest Twitter numbers with the headline Stats Confirm It: Teens Don't Tweet. This gained traction on Twitter turning into...
From Putting People First
Web Squared: when Web 2.0 meets Internet of Things
Richard MacManus reports on ReadWriteWeb that Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper entitled Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On, which focuses on...
From Putting People First
The information architecture of social experience design
Christian Crumlish, curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and author of The Power of Many, describes the patterns that are relevant when adding a social...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web Squared: an Internet of Things
Good piece in the ReadWriteWeb on the the concept of WebSquared, or the intersection of Web 2.0 and the Internet of things. Commenting on the O'Reilly - Battelle...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-08-05
Thoughts about Dual-licensing Open Source software Monty's concerns about cases where the commercial license takes away freedoms...
From Putting People First
A user perspective on mobile banking in Tanzania
Gunnar Camner and Emil Sj
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fee-Base WiFi Dying?
I found this article interesting. While there may be fewer fee based WiFi options out there. I also find, when traveling that it is often not that easy to log...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whole Body Nervous System Scan
In Mind Hacks, a link to a form of form of MRI scan which does whole body nervous systems scans. Unclear if this has ever been used to understand any type of human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ad Supported Mobile
Good case study of ad-supported mobile in AdAge: Where Blyk Went Wrong. Mention in particular of L'Oreal's use for consumer engagement which got a 70% response...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping the Mind
Finished reading Rita Carter's Mapping the Mind. A good easy to read introduction to the links between brain function and internal brain location. If you are new...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Learning about New Resources
Sometimes there just isn't enough time in the day to get everything accomplished. It can be hard for me to balance my family, career, and personal life. So how...
From Return 42;
The other side of the table: Kent Beck
Time for the next issue of The other side of the table. Today we feature the open question of Kent Beck. We all know Kent is the creator of Extreme ProgrammingAgile...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-08-04
Microsoft's Linux Kernel Code Drop Result of GPL Violation There had to be a reason beyond goodwill, and it seems that reason was...
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