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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Make your research papers easy to skim
Claus Metzner asked us how often we read research papers in detail. He reads fully less than 1% of all research papers he comes across. This must be true of nearly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WolframAlpha's Terms of Use
Examining WolframAlpha's terms of service. Its a computational service, not a search engine. So the implications for use are different.
From Putting People First
Nokia
Nokia Conversations is reporting on a rare behind-closed-doors Nokia design event dubbed The Inside Story. According to a first post, Alastair Curtis, Head of Design...
From Putting People First
The changing TV experience
Consumer Electronics 3.0 is the name Intel has chosen for a new concept of seamless integration of internet and television. The CE 3.0 website is rich in content...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Education Policy Hill Briefing Highlights Computer Science Education
A Hill briefing co-sponsored by the ACM Education Policy Committee, with the support of the House STEM Education Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus covered...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-27
Matthew Alexander: Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Lies and Distortions Well worth reading this commentary...
From The Noisy Channel
Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...
From The Noisy Channel
Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FAST Interns
In 1997 Pete Blackshaw (Now exec VP at Nielsen) created an internship program call FAST at P&G which provided a means for interns to communicate directly withAn...
From Apophenia
when teachers and students connect outside school
In my last entry, I made a comment about the value of "cool" teachers interacting with students on social network sites. I received some push-back from non-educators...
From Putting People First
Selling user experience
Daniel Szuc is a principal consultant at a Apogee Usability Asia Ltd, based in Hong Kong, and previously worked on a usability team for Telstra Australia. When...
From Putting People First
Is design the preeminent protagonist in user experience?
The latest issue of Ubiquity, a web-based publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), contains a fascinating account by Phillip Tobias on the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligence Blog
Former compatriot and correspondent, now co-entrepreneur and my small business consultant, Stan Dyck now has a blog. He is a very good researcher and writer.'...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Endings and Beginnings
Hurray! It's over! Another school year in the books. AP and IB testing are complete. Final exams are submitted, printed and ready to administer. It's time...
From The Noisy Channel
NYT Appoints a
What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...
From The Noisy Channel
NYT Appoints a
What’s a social media editor? I have no idea, but the New York Times now has one! As reported in ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, and of course Valleywag, the paper...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing for Nice People
Pamela Slim writes about Marketing for Nice People. ' ... it is incredibly difficult to strike a perfect balance between sharing information openly, without a....
From Putting People First
President of Icann about the net
Dr Paul Twomey, president of the internet admin body Icann, talks about the net’s potential for change. “The mobile global internet is growing quickly to connect...
From Putting People First
Hi-tech aims to improve lifestyle
BBC technology correspondent Mark Ward reports on a research project that uses Facebook, mobile phones, and energy meters to nudge people into living healthier...
From The Eponymous Pickle