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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
Nokia
Two new interviews on Nokia’s IdeasProject: Social media may have unforeseen limits John Jordan, a pathbreaking tech consultant and academic, measures social technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling Financial Meltdowns
See Ken Karakotsios's work on modeling financial meltdowns. Great example of using simulation economic models while encouraging collective input:" ... This is the...
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The rise of the mobile divides
Rich Ling is a sociologist at the Telenor research institute and a visiting professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, who is particularly interested in understanding...
From Wild WebMink
Sunday Link Round-Up on April 5th
HADOPI Law Passed - by 12 Votes to 4 Exactly how this can be quorate and just for creating a national law that will offer private business the power to cut citizens...
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Designing service design principles
Nick Marsh of Engine Service Design outlines some of his experiences developing service principles: “For the purposes of this discussion, I’m assuming that principles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why We Share Knowledge
Good post by Nancy Dixon on why we share knowledge. Covers important implications for knowledge management and the roles of people within the enterprise. My own...
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Jack Carroll on the history of HCI and interaction design
Grand Old Man of HCI, Jack Carroll, explains the history of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and how the field gave birth to User Experience and Interaction Design...
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IT and the world
Richard Heeks reflects in the latest edition of “Communications of the ACM” on how information technology can be best applied to address problems and provide opportunities...
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Debunking myths about customer needs
Marketing Management is a bi-monthly strategic marketing magazine published by the American Marketing Association. The Jan-Feb issue contained a very strong piece...
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A post to look at and to act upon
Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic need your help. Despite the fact that U.S. citizen Bruce Sterling and Serbian citizen Jasmina Tesanovic have been married for...
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Information technologies and international development
Information Technologies and International Development, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the intersection of information and communication technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Simple Telepresence.
I have been examining simple telepresence tools, this article points to some examples. Have not tried these yet, but will.
From CSDiary
SIGBOVIK Conference Approacheth
A quick special announcement of a conference being held on campus tomorrow: ACH SIGBOVIK 2009: April 5th, 1pm, Scaife 125 The Association for Computational Heresy...
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Travelogue: Reflections on the Future for Computing Researchers
OK, I admit it. During the past two weeks I got in a bit over my head, time-wise. But, I’ve gotten through it, and I’m feeling pretty satisfied with the results...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.3 (April 3, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Computing Groups Call for More Focus on Computing Education [3] 2008 ACM Turing Award Recognizes Dr. Barbara Liskov [4]...
From Wild WebMink
Three Links Showing What We Need To Fix
Financial Derivatives Explained Wonderful, clear, vaguely funny explanation of what "derivatives" are and why anyone watching should have understood it would all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goodbye SGI
A colleague of mine was a founder of SGI. I was asked if I wanted to join them when they started up. We used their graphics engines to do package design in the...
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Shoppers Making Decisions In-Store
Miller Zell study on where and why shoppers are making buying decisions. Surprising to me is that they did not find in-store digital signage to be influentialtalks...
From insideHPC
Analyst speculates rumored IBM/Sun deal could eliminate 10,000
From Forbes today comes a thought experiment exploring what might happen if the IBM/Sun deal actually happens The outlook: This could be a particularly messy merger...
From The Eponymous Pickle