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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 CSDiary
CMU Mind Readers
Research on machine learning — that is, machines that improve with experience — has made astounding progress over the past decade or so. Such research is very mathematical...
From Putting People First
People-centred design in times of frugality
The current economic recession is turning out to be very severe (The Guardian evokes the spectre of a 1930s-style depression), with rich countries being the biggest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TouchGraph Revisited
I looked at TouchGraph some time ago. A means of visualizing searches and determining the connections between search results. Many new features in this new version...
From Putting People First
M-banking and economic development
Jonathan Donner of Microsoft Research India and Camilo Andres Tellez of the London School of Economics and Political Science have together written a paper on mobile...
From Putting People First
Why products fail
Computerworld columnist Mike Elgan argues that most gadget and software makers don’t understand what users want most: control. Both users and product designers...
From Putting People First
Focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can
John Maeda, the new president of RISD, wrote some smart words in Esquire (where he was profiled as one of 75 most influential people): “Technological advances have...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Affluent E-Commerce Sales
From Evan Schuman, an analysis of E-Commerce sales by the affluent this holiday season.
From Wild WebMink
Today's links, January 3rd
Unusual disk latencyDon't shout at your hard disks; it upsets them. (Watch the video - yes, it's been everywhere, but it was on my Twitter feed first)The 2008 Chutzpah...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Math on the Web
I was just reminded of Wolfram's MathWorld ... The Web's most extensive math resource ... " . Consider for example their coverage of the Pythagorean Theorem,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vinyl Record Sales Double
Sometimes technologies that seem to have gone away can come back.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Project Information Literacy
Via Eileen Clegg of Visual Insight:" ... a new study by Alison J. Head about how undergraduates conduct research in the digital age. Alison is PI of Project Information...
From CSDiary
CCC Council Seeks New Members
The Council of the Computing Community Consortium, aka the CCC Council, is seeking nominations for new members. Nominations (including self-nominations) are due...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Favorite posts for 2008
I wrote about 300 blog posts this year. Here are some of my favorites: Do you think because you write, or write because you think? Good research: invent new problems...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Secrets of Social Media Marketing
Paul Gillin's book: The Secrets of Social Media Marketing, has a web site.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brands Finding Value on Twitter
Some case studies of the use of Twitter for marketing, in Clickz: " ... It's been called a tech-geek fad, a business flop-to-be, and a waste of time for most marketers...
From insideHPC
Acceleware Closes $410k in Private
Acceleware Corp. (TSX VENTURE:AXE) is pleased to announce that it has completed a non-brokered private placement of 8,200,000 common shares at a price of $0.05...
From Wild WebMink
The First Links of 2009
Profile: Terry PratchettThat's SIR Terry Pratchett from now on. I wonder which town he'll pick as his "of"? Great choice for a knighthood, combining genius, philanthropy...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog