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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
Mirror Neurons and the Social Web
Matt Bamford-Bowes muses about Mirror Neurons and the Social Web. ' I think social web activity is one which is a reflection of Mirror Neurons at work ... ' ....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - May 2008 (Vol. 52, No. 5)
Here are some items in the May issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. Remember, much of the material in CACM is considered premium content...
From The Noisy Channel
Those Who Give Twitter *Get* Twitter
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb wrote a post arguing that the people working at Twitter aren’t using the service the way its power users do, and that this...
From Putting People First
The limits of user-generated contents, as demonstrated by a North-Korean case
About four weeks ago, I wrote a post denouncing Current TV for their hypocrisy: encouraging user-generated content when it is not threatening, but actively censoring...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-06
Colorado Software Summit 2009 Cancelled After 18 years, the world's best developer conference closes the shutters after seeingEvents...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
CFP Panel on Voting and the Internet
Yesterday, during the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), USACM coordinated a panel to speak on voting and using the internet. It was chaired by Ed...
From Wild WebMink
OASIS Protects Open Source Developers From Software Patents
Some of you may remember a fuss that was made a few years ago by some open source people over the copyright and patent policy used by OASIS, the computer protocols...
From The Noisy Channel
Enabling Exploration Through Text Analytics
As promised, here are my slides from the recently held Text Analytics Summit. Feel free to download them from SlideShare–some of the animation may not come through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Coupons at the Dairy Queen
Interesting test which uses stick-on RFID tags at Dairy Queen, by Evan Schuman in Storefrontbacktalk, read the whole thing for other examples of the approach: '...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wave Talk
Jerry Michalski files a podcast on his recent conference call on Google Wave.. The Google Wave site also has an introduction. ' ... Google Wave is a new tool for...
From Putting People First
The Economist on sensors, mapping and mobiles
The Economist this week comes with a new edition of its 24-page Technology Quarterly supplement, which contains four articles that are related to the theme of this...
From Putting People First
Public design projects by Participle
The site of Participle, a UK social design consultancy, contains some good materials on the design of the next generation of public services. Only the Lonely: Public...
From Putting People First
Mobile gesture design at Nokia - developing a new dialect of interaction
The field of mobile gestures is a fascinating one that Nokia is keenly exploring and researching, with explorative designers Younghee Jung and Dan Macleod on the...
From Putting People First
PICNIC
The upcoming PICNIC ‘09 conference (Amsterdam, 23-25 September) just announced is key themes: Exploding Media: Exploding Story This is the story of the extraordinary...
From Putting People First
Reinventing the home appliance
A Windows-enabled and Web-connected coffee maker like the prototype in this photo could check online for the proper grinding size of the beans you
From Putting People First
Tim Berners-Lee: I no longer understand the web
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behaviour. Paul Marks asked in The New Scientist...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.5 (June 4, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] ACM Co-sponsors Hill Briefing on Computer Science Education [3] USACM Elevated to Council Status in ACM [4] Congress Moves...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Google Squared
I mentioned this Google lab thing a while back. Google Squared. It is up now. You choose a name of a group of things and Google creates a table which contains...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Buys Retailer
In an unusual move P&G has bought the 'Art of Shaving', a high end mall retailer with 36 stores that sells Gillette products. A rare move into the retail space...
From The Noisy Channel