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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 Putting People First
Clay Shirky on social media and the emotional dimension of news
Clay Shirky is this week’s guest on Nokia’s IdeasProject site. He talks about social media and the emotional dimension of news. “Clay Shirky says that the lightning...
From Putting People First
FT special report on connectivity
The Financial Times has published a special report on connectivity, analysing the implications of a connected planet. My preferred pieces: Skills: Business must...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart's Self Service Kiosks
Wal-Mart has started an experiment with self-service kiosks. An intriguing issue regarding the resulting data ownership issues. Given the kind of information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Data Via the Semantic Web
Readwriteweb article that points to work by PriceWaterHouse. ' ... explains how the Semantic Web and Linked Data can help enterprises manage their large-scale data...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Networks
Noting the work of Peter Gloor at MIT. In particular he studies innovation networks-- the ecosystem of innovation, learning, and collaborative knowledge networks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overreaching in Neuromarketing?
The interpretation of brain images and other biometric measurements are part of a broad and increasingly practiced set of methods called neuromarketing. Following...
From Putting People First
In the US, even the homeless stay connected
The Wall Street Journal reports on the use of the internet by homeless people in San Francisco. “A few years ago, some people were worrying that a “digital divide”...
From Putting People First
Round. The World. Connected. A video series
The Nokia Siemens Network has created an extremely well produced website and video series, entitled “Round. The World. Connected.” that sets out to understand what...
From Putting People First
Your future job is social Innovator: Predictions from Ezio Manzini
“The main activity of designers will be as social innovators,” said Ezio Manzini during an intimate conversation with o2NYC on May 6. Ezio’s talk outlined an exit...
From Putting People First
Inside MAYA Design
How a little lab called MAYA is giving firms such as Emerson and General Dynamics an innovation boost. Fast Company reports. “MAYA Design is juicing innovation...
From Putting People First
Interviews on service design research
Earlier this month researchers Daniela Sangiorgi, Stefano Maffei and Nicola Morelli launched a promising new initiative focused on service design research: While...
From Putting People First
The demise of
Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the International Herald Tribune, reflects on the fact that the appearance of most digital products bears no relation to what...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and Columnar Databases
An interesting piece with a number of useful additional links on the topic.
From Putting People First
Considering the future of mobile phones
Ken Banks, creator of FrontlineSMS, writes in PC World on the future of mobile phones and believes that many future mobile innovations will be borne out of the...
From Putting People First
Gartner: Users of mobile payments to double by 2012
The number of people using mobile devices to purchase goods and services is expected to more than double by the end of 2012 globally, research firm Gartner Inc....
From Putting People First
NPR: mobile phones do much more than make calls
In Asia, Africa, Europe and elsewhere, cell phone technology has always been way ahead of what’s available in the states. Around the world, people use their phones...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chartle Data Visualization
A simple online data visualization tool called Chartle as a Web application in early Beta that is looking for testers. You can create, embed and share results...
From CERIAS Blog
A Cynic
Today, and Before On July 17, 2008, (then) Senator Barack Obama held a town hall meeting on national security at Purdue University. He and his panel covered issues...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Alan T. Waterman Award
The NSF Alan T. Waterman Award recognizes one extraordinary young scientist or engineer annually.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM