Learn from your errors. Even if you’re a software.

Those who know me have learnt how I like errors. Well not the error itself, but the new knowledge that failures generate (I’ve wrote about this here).

And, among all the fantastic speakers that showed up at Frontiers of Interaction 2011, the one I really felt as touching my inner cords was Zdenek Kalal: a researcher, he recently left EPFL to create his own start-up based on the algorith he has invented. An algorithm that teaches machines to learn from their errors to achieve success.

Don’t miss his performance at foi11!

What our digital footprints can tell the world

This article originally appeared on the web published by frog design’s Design Mind;

In my usual working day I wake up thanks to the alarm in my iPhone, I fire up the iPad to read the daily newspapers, look at the email  while having breakfast and then jump into the car to commute to the office; during the day I use Twitter when out for lunch, and also upload some photos while on the go to share them with my peers. And when I upload my shots to Flickr — I love the geotagging feature (which is on by default on my iPhone).
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