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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
Average Quicksand
Herb Sorensen of TNS Sorensen talks about "Average" Quicksand in shopping trips: ' ... What is the life experience of the average human being? Other than that...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-12
Amazon X5 Free Sampler - Golden Voices Start the week with some timelessly wonderful music - another great sampler that AmazonMusic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented ID on Mobile
What you would love to see is a picture ID on any picture taken with your mobile cam. Even the ability, if it were reliable enough, to use it as a means to identify...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3DSee: 3D Modeling on the Web
Always looking for easier ways to take aspects of the real world and turn it into manipulable models online. Here reviewed in DownloadSquad. A means of building...
From CSDiary
Carlos Guestrin Wins Presidential Early Career Award
Carlos Guestrin has just been given the highest honor bestowed by the US government for early-career scientists and engineers, the Presidential Early Career Award...
From Putting People First
Augmenting Venice
The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory has just published a recent project about location-based media, focusing on how the future of mobile contents are related to...
From Putting People First
Book: Mobile Communication
Mobile Communication by Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner Polity, 2009 200 pages With staggering swiftness, the mobile phone has become a fixture of daily life in almost...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BP Energy Consumption Data
This turns out to be useful for an ongoing project, impressive: ' ... Everything you always wanted to know about oil and gas prices, consumption, coal, hydro-electricity...
From Putting People First
Privacy requires security, not abstinence
In a long essay on Technology Review, Simson Garfinkel reflects on what protecting an inalienable right might mean in the age of Facebook. “Privacy matters. Data...
From Putting People First
The rating game
The spread of Internet rankings and reviews is freeing consumers to focus on the decisions that matter, writes Kevin Maney in the current issue of The Atlantic...
From Putting People First
Introduction to service design
Culminatum Ltd – Helsinki Region Centre of Expertise has published a great online tool, entitled Introduction to service design. “The purpose of this digital communications...
From Putting People First
Rural India
The Wall Street Journal and India Knowledge@Wharton present a unique mix of reporting, analysis, interviews and video on life and business in rural India. The Rural...
From Putting People First
Personas, devices, enterprises and diaries to illustrate life in 2020
Wired UK reports on a new foresight project by Ericsson: Ericsson, the company that, with Sony, gave birth to Sony Ericsson in 2001, has unveiled its Life in 2020...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Losing Our Ability to Think Critically
From the Communications of the ACM: Are We Losing Our Ability to Think Critically?Computer technology has enhanced lives in countless ways, but some experts believe...
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Brick and Mortar
I have been involved with the understanding of brick and mortar stores, and the utilization of online commerce. Now a way to design a brick wall of the future...
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