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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 Noisy Channel
JCDL 2009
For the benefit of those of us not lucky enough to be attending this year’s Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2009), a number of attendees are live-tweeting...
From The Noisy Channel
Spam in the Twitterverse
I’ve noted in the past that “real-time” alerting systems, in contrast to search engines that place less emphasis on immediacy, are particularly vulnerable to spamming...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Increasing Female Participation
I have always dreamed of my students working with an international student team on a computing project. This dream became reality when I met Archana Chidanandan...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Is Open Access publishing the solution? Really?
Back when I was a consultant, I had client who was convinced that Microsoft Windows was free software. So, he insisted that all applications ran on Microsoft’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikipedia Community
A good Q&A about the Wikipedia community. The comments also post some excellent thoughts. I remain a proponent, with the usual words of caution, which can also...
From CSDiary
CMU CS Department to Move to Gates and Hillman Centers on August 3
I’ve been feeling pretty guilty about being off the blog for the past month. I do have some excuses, though. Of course, there were the usual paper and proposal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tweetdeck on the IPhone
Have been experimenting with the Tweetdeck client for the IPhone, now in Beta. So far well done, have found no obvious errors yet. The best package I have yet...
From The Noisy Channel
Wikipedia: Play The Ball, Not The Man
Today’s Freakonomics blog in the New York Times has a nice post entitled “By a Bunch of Nobodies: A Q&A With the Author of The Wikipedia Revolution“, in which Annika...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FMI Looks at Private-Label
FMI will start to sponsor research on private-label good and put on a conference devoted to private label issues. In SupermarketNews. Good direction to take.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Increases 700 Percent
Social networking sites continue to expand. Blogging traffic is slipping. Reason is likely the simplicity and ease of short snippets versus longer posts. Probably...
From CSDiary
Autographs on the Kindle
Last Sunday’s NY Times had an amusing article about people going to book-signings and asking authors to autograph their Kindle ebook readers. Well, gee, I guess...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Innovation in Manufacturing
Sammy Haroon and Tony Tsai, two former enterprise colleagues of mine pass along comments on the Accenture Roudtable report about innovation in manufacturing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital at Unilever
New from Unilever in Adage: ' ... Digital media and branded content largely have been seen as strategies for mature markets where TV advertising faces its greatest...
From Putting People First
The social life of health information
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a report that shows how Americans’ pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online...
From Putting People First
The rules for balancing technology and relationships
Emma Cook asks in The Times of London if our increasing desire to stay in the loop is distracting us from the people who should matter the most in our lives. “According...
From The Noisy Channel
Hunch Has Launched
For anyone who has been waiting to try Hunch (which really is a “decision engine“) but didn’t manage to snarf an invite, today is your lucky day: Hunch has launched...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-15
American ending 'Nerd Bird" nonstops to Silicon Valley from Austin Uh-oh. Serious blow to the Sun folks working in Austin.Travel...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 15
June 16 Hearing: The Research and Science Education and the Technology and Innovation Subcommittees of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a...
From Putting People First
From business to buttons
Interaction designers, business strategists and usability experts gathered last week in Malmö, Sweden for the third edition of the “From Business to Buttons” conference...
From Putting People First