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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
American Time Use Visualization
From Junk Charts ... a good example of visualization. Pointing to the NYT's visualization of US consumers use of time. ' ... (Apparently, thousands of people recalled...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I hardly ever blog about my ongoing research
When I started my blog in 2004, my goal was to blog about my research. It never happened. You may think that I am afraid a reader could steal my ideas, or that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deeping in Deep Sea Fault Zones
Scientists Drill a Mile Into Active Deep Sea Fault Zone. Not for oil, but for science. Trying to understand subduction zones and earthquakes. Reminds me of project...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with Eric von Hippel
The Open-Minded Professor - An Interview with Eric von Hippel, MIT
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Journal
Have now followed the commercial application of RFID tagging for years. I am particularly interested in the analytics used to leverage data from RFID sensors.The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power of Packaging
Steve Genco from Lucid Systems on the Implicit Power of Packaging.. Met with Steve recently and he outlined the very good work that he has been doing with clients...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Exploring Computer Science Curriculum Now Available!
CST is very pleased to announce the availability of a free curriculum now available on the CSTA website. The Exploring Computer Science (ECS) materials avalable...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First CIFellows sub-award completed!
Today, the first sub-award in the Computing Innovation Fellows project was completed! Under the CIFellows project – conceived of and implemented by CCC and CRA,...
From Apophenia
help me find innovative practitioners who address online safety issues
I need your help. One of our central conclusions in the Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report was that many of the online safety issues require the collective...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Freestyle as Market Research
Roger Dooley writes about the Coke Freestyle intelligent dispenser as a market research approach. I agree, it is a way to link research to differentiated delivery...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Press Releases Still Have Value
A recent conversation at our little start-up questioned the need for press releases. Paul Gillin makes the case that a number of things that could be described...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Assistant
Everyone likes the idea of having an intelligent assistant to help lead them through complex systems tasks. Yet almost no one liked Microsoft's 'clippy' idea. The...
From Putting People First
Designing waits that work
The MIT Sloan Management Review has published Donald Norman’s paper ‘Designing Waits That Work‘ (available for $6.50). It is based on a 2008 paper by Norman, entitled...
From CSDiary
At last: *Useful* social networking
For the past two weeks I’ve had meetings in Washington DC. For various reasons, I decided to drive instead of fly. Well, on my Monday drive down to DC, I was nabbed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Collaboration via Reflected Knowledge
In HBS Working Knowledge, a look at how to make remote and global collaboration work. ' .... Based on 47 semi-structured interviews and 140 survey responses in...
From Putting People First
An interview with Eric von Hippel
Scott Wilson interviewed Prof. Eric von Hippel of MIT
From Putting People First