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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
The Fragile Hawthorne Effect
The Hawthorne effect is often brought up in industrial psychology. It was brought up when constructing industrial experiments and simulations where the behavior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Pumping Digital Media
In AdAge: Marketing mix and other analytical methods are starting to show large companies that there is real value to using digital at a greater level. This has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery Strategies
A good BW overview article on new strategies by retail grocery. ' ... From ready-to-eat meals to eco-friendly offerings, food retailers are finding more ways to...
From Wild WebMink
OpenJDK Board gets Google & Red Hat Members
Over the weekend, Mark announced he's updated the OpenJDK Interim Governance Board page to add details of the two new members Sun has asked to join the Board to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wordnik for Words
Wordnik. A beta site that seeks to be more than a dictionary. Sort of an encyclopedia of words. A modern OED. ' .... An ongoing project devoted to discovering...
From The Noisy Channel
Attending Endeca Discover
Apologies for the unusual hiatus in posting–I’ve been attending Endeca Discover (an annual user conference) and haven’t managed to allocate time for blogging. I’ll...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why senior researchers and managers should analyze data themselves
Scientists, businessman and even spies are supposed to analyze data collaboratively. Are they? If you are a scientist, you are familiar with the following type...
From Putting People First
Efficiency or ambient intimacy?
The latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine is all about a new era of human interaction that is marked by perpetual conversations and perpetual info drip-feed...
From Putting People First
Physically digital
Mac Funamizu explores on Johnny Holland what digital devices with physically changing displays might look like and how their interface language might be conceived...
From Putting People First
How designers can influence behavior
Robert Fabricant wrote about the role of the designer in behavioural change and describes three new design strategies: persuasion design, catalyst design and performance...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Leadership Cohort Update from Washington (State)
As a member of the CSTA Leadership cohort, I have had an exciting year in Washington. A group of very dedicated educators and business members have been working...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Relations 2.0 Examined
Good detailed article in PR 2.0 by Brian Solis: The State of PR, Marketing, and Communications: You are the Future. ' ... Contrary to popular belief, Social Media...
From Apophenia
Gender Gap in Perception of Computer Science
"New Image for Computing" recently released a report in their first wave to understand the image of computing among youth. Funded by WGBH and ACM, this report examines...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart on Marketing
In AdAge: Wal-Mart on their increasingly sophisticated methods of marketing and associated research. Also an increasingly strong approach to merchandising in their...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 8
June 10 Hearing: The Research and Science Education subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on research and development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Evolution of Private Label
Q&A: Nielsen Industry Insight Director Details Evolution of Private Label, National Brands ' ... Nielsen Co. director of industry insights Tom Pirovano noted that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demise of the University
Don Tapscott in the Edge on the demise of the University. Universities like MIT are posting their coursework online. Libraries are online. Wikis allow knowledge...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-07
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive Currently reading the copy of The Geek Atlas that O'Reilly kindly...