Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Algorithms are everywhere. They’re the unnoticed mecha... determine everything from the temperature in your office... your Facebook feed, to the information Google shows you ... But there’s one big problem: these algorithms are not ... value-neutr

AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... who’s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn’t be... that one of the first—and creepiest—examples of this...
News broke

No UI is the New UI
On the rise of UI-less apps and why you should
care about them as a designer.

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

Can an algorithm be racist? It’s a question that shoul... all data-driven organizations.

Thanks for checking out face.com. We've opened up our AP...
In a nutshell:
We offer services for detecting, recognizing, and ta ...
Face.com's services are offered for FREE with rate l ...
... ou to, say, recognize Facebook users in Flickr photos

Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adora... artificial intelligence to meet its goals.
Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It ...

google self-driving robotic car
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are ...
Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged ...

ifttt: The startup with the crazy name aims to automate ...
Have you ever wished that you could call in status updat ...

Handset maker Nokia today announced the creation of an e... called "Nokia Situations" that can automatically adjust ... behavior for various situations and contexts. For exampl... shut off the ringer whenever you go into a meeting, with...
According t

Jigsaw figures out what you are doing by monitoring your... microphone, GPS and accelerometer for patterns character... activities - and it could be set to send the results to ... sites.
More importantly, Jigsaw can log how active you are each ...

Weird huh ?
This robot is used to mimic a remote users facial moveme ...

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Cellphones, Software, Mobile Software
Intel testing context-aware API for smartphones and tabl ...
By Sean Hollister posted Sep 15th 2010 1:47PM
... e heavy lifting for a new generation of apps. How sweet.

New robotic hand 'can feel'
A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed ...
It has been attached to the arm of a 22-year-old man who ...
Researchers say it works by connecting human nerve endin ...

Within ten years some doctors and scientists are predict...
They say by using the natural orifices of the body and t ...
It sounds fantastical, but prototypes are already in exi ...
There are particularly big hopes for Ares (Assembling Re ...
... ising p

or the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been dev... expect will be the world’s most advanced “question a... machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday... — “natural language,” as computer scientists call ...
With Watson

Auto makers, on the other hand, now function more like s... Dozens of suppliers provide sub-assemblies, many of whic... own silicon - and those interconnected systems are becom... elaborate.
Can Toyota elevate software quality to the same level th ...

Siri Technology
A New Interaction Paradigm
Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) represent the next ge ...
Siri is the first mainstream consumer application of a V ...
... utation in the cloud and small computation in the field.

Berners-Lee's compelling vision of a Semantic Web is hin... chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a b... method, creating enough structured data to motivate the ... applications. We believe that autonomously `Semantifying...
The Intelli

Today's applications become more and more complex, makin...
* Guidance: guide the user which interaction element ...
* Interface Adaptation: adapt the interface to the u ...
* Content Suggestion: suggest content for interactio ...
... tions a

Adapting web sites by spreading activation in ontologies
Hussein, T.; Ziegler, J. (2008)
ReColl '08: Int. Workshop on Recommendation and Collabor ...
[Download]

This dataset contains the original query interfaces and ... extracted query capabilities of 447 deep Web sources fro... domains, which form 3 groups "TEL" (and thus the name of... the Travel group: Airfares, Hotels, and Car Rentals; in ... group: Book

ALICE A.I. Foundation news items, announcements, press r... opinions. Anything related to Artificial Intelligence Ma... (AIML), the Turing Test, the Loebner Prize, bot hosting ... proprietary chat bot software.

The following is an alphabetical listing of bots you can...

OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology...
* rapid development of an ontology in a vertical area
* email prioritizing, routing, summarization, and an ...
* expert systems
* games

Data, detected.
Say you get an email invitation to dinner. What if Mail ...

The Delivery Context Ontology provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices inte... or other services. The delivery context includes the cha... the device, the software used to access the service and ...
The deliver

Today's applications become more and more complex, makin... maintain the usability of the interface. User interfaces... complexity and improve the usability of software, but it... possible to satisfy individual user needs. Therefore, us... support too