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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 Apophenia
"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
Last week, I gave my first talk at Microsoft since joining MSR. This talk was part of the annual Tech Fest where researchers from labs around the world come and...
From CSDiary
Is CS Enrollment on the Upswing?
We’ll have to wait for the new Taulbee Survey results to come out (any day now), but there are a few signs here and there that CS enrollments are on the upswing...
From CSDiary
Keeping Up
I’m way overdue for a new entry on this blog. The past two weeks have been pretty crazy. I attended the Computing Leadership Summit and the CRA Board meeting in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cruising, Searching and Selecting
Herb Sorensen of TNS takes a scientific look at shopper behavior in their habitat: Deconstructing the Shopping Trip (so far!). Another excellent read.He also reminded...
From Putting People First
Empathy is growth
Dev Patnaik, founder and chief executive of Jump Associates, argues in Business Week that knowing the wants of your customers is more important than out-innovating...
From Putting People First
The LIFT conference experience
One of those things hard to achieve with conferences is a good atmosphere. The recent LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland clearly has it down to a science:...
From Putting People First
New frontiers at LIFT09
The final session of the 2009 LIFT conference was about new frontiers, devoted to people who are pushing the envelope, and reinventing their fields in the process...
From Putting People First
Nokia
Two new interviews on Nokia’s IdeasProject: This device we make in our own image changes everything Renowned computational biologist and educational innovator James...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Destruction and the Notificator
Not sure I would bet on Google being soon upended by a new challenger. Yet this piece makes some interesting historical comparisons. Things also do change rapidly...
From Putting People First
When everyone
Randall Stross is a New York Times staff writer, who expands on the issue of privacy in an era of social networking — a topic which has also been addressed pointedly...
From Putting People First
Share my ride
The New York Times Magazine on the service design concept behind car sharing: “Car sharing, is a pay-per-use system, which has the effect of significantly altering...
From Wild WebMink
Weekend Link Roundup, Sunday March 8th
B-Live Share and Groove Armada Clever viral marketing campaign rewards you with free music if you recruit your friends to Bacardi's marketing site. Yes, that link...
From Wild WebMink
Twilight Zone
Just a reminder to everyone I have calls with that Summer Time (Daylight Savings) starts in Europe on the last Sunday of March and not today like it did in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Think Map
Intriguing site: Visual Think Map. A nice set of examples of information design. " ... Exploring creative innovative modes of visual communication of information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cable Targeting
Good short piece in the NYT Business section on increasing use of cable company ad targeting. This is likely to continue to expand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeted Media
More word of targeted media using a system we originally helped design and test. Here in Progressive Grocer. These systems are usually installed first for shopper...
From insideHPC
Building multicore and cloud ready
Found at Multicoreinfo.com, a pointer to the first in a two-part series on designs principles that will lead to multicore- and cloud-ready applications Multicore...
From insideHPC
Intel invests in new HPC center in
This week Intel chairman Craig Barrett announced that Intel is beginning a 5 year collaboration in France for the construction of a new academic research facility...