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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
New media practices in China, Korea, India, Brazil, Japan and Ghana
The blog series on New Media Practices in International Contexts, which I announced in January, is now complete. It covers the unique characteristics of digital...
From CSDiary
CMU Commencement 2009 Caught on GigaPan
This past weekend was incredibly busy, not only with the launch of the CIFellows Project, but also with a full slate of CMU commencement activities. Jeffrey Baker...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bookmarks in the Recession
Time interview of Martin Lindstrom, who's Buyology book I have mentioned here a number of times. How Shoppers Make Decisions in a Recession, interesting thought...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Reinventing university education? Practical ideas
Yesterday, John stressed that education is about helping people discover their passion. I have many brilliant students, but few passionate students.
From The Noisy Channel
Copying TREC is the Wrong Track for the Enterprise
Otis just wrote a post in which he cited the Open Relevance Project, an embryonic effort by the Lucene project to build a free, public information retrieval evaluation...
From The Noisy Channel
Copying TREC is the Wrong Track for the Enterprise
Otis just wrote a post in which he cited the Open Relevance Project, an embryonic effort by the Lucene project to build a free, public information retrieval evaluation...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-18
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers Transforming Humanity
Good CW piece on the subject. Had a recent conservation about this. It has indeed changed our world. We are part of a considerable social experiment about information...
From Apophenia
is Facebook for old people?
In Atlanta, I met a shy quiet 14-year-old girl that I'll call Kaitlyn. She wasn't particularly interested in talking to me, but she answered my questions diligently...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton's WIMI
At an alumni event yesterday I attended a talk by Prof's Peter Fader and Eric Bradlow on Wharton's Interactive Marketing Initiative (WIMI). Disappointed thaton...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Squared
Googles new squared service seems to be a tongue-in-cheek response to WolframAlpha. Give it a try. Manipulating numbers. I do like Google's sometimes absurd...
From Apophenia
answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices
Before I headed to Atlanta to do fieldwork, I asked folks who follow me on Twitter (@zephoria) what questions I should ask teens. Many of the questions that I received...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Innovation at GSK
Andrea Meyer reports on Donna Sturgess of GlaxoSmithKline talk at the world innovation forum. Their use of the idea of 'emotional talismans' in weight control'...
From The Noisy Channel
A Consumer-Centric View of Business Models for Publishing
Curt Monash has a nice post that turns around the question of innovating business models for online publishing . He considers the reasons that people consume information...
From The Noisy Channel
A Consumer-Centric View of Business Models for Publishing
Curt Monash has a nice post that turns around the question of innovating business models for online publishing . He considers the reasons that people consume information...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Update from the NCWIT Meeting
I just attended the May meeting of the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT). NCWIT is now 5 years old. The organization has two main goals...
From The Noisy Channel
Wolfram Alpha is Live, But Struggling
Wolfram Alpha is live, though it is experiencing some strain under load. Lots of reactions on Techmeme, both commenting on the brief launch delay and expressing...
From The Noisy Channel
Wolfram Alpha is Live, But Struggling
Wolfram Alpha is live, though it is experiencing some strain under load. Lots of reactions on Techmeme, both commenting on the brief launch delay and expressing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Label Protection
Good short piece on private label 'protection' implications in retail from Nielsen.
From CSDiary