Communications of the ACM
Sexism and Women in Technology
There seems to be a lot of discussion on the Internet about women in technology. More specifically the troubles they have with
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Review / Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming
There are many resources out there for Python, but I've recently had the opportunity to enjoy a fully colour printed book on the topic. Sure, it's called Python...
"The Global Cyber Game"
This 127-page report was just published by the UK Defence Academy. I have not read it yet, but it looks really interesting. Executive Summary: This report presents...
Smart citizens make smart cities, a talk by Dan Hill
“We have the technology to do anything. To make things happen you need to turn to design and redesign the context, the decision making and the question.” – Dan...The future of tablets in education: potential vs. reality of consuming media
Justin Reich of MindShift has launched a four-part series to explore four dimensions of using tablets, such as the iPad, in educational settings, examining how...
Brainwaves Added to the Quantified Self
Word of a kickstarter project called Melon that would gather brainwaves. Another example of the quantified self. Also, related this to neuromarketing, there might...This is My Dream Job
Long ago in a land far away (well, actually only about 2.5 hours east of here -- but definitely a very different day and time), I started teaching high school...Big Oil and Gas Companies in the next 5 Years
Recorded Future uses their forward looking semantic analysis tool to understand future activities of Oil and Gas Companies. Full interactive version here.Some...
thoughts on Pew’s latest report: notable findings on race and privacy
Yesterday, Pew Internet and American Life Project (in collaboration with Berkman) unveiled a brilliant report about “Teens, Social Media, and Privacy.” As a researcher...Printing 3D Food
Much in the News: About how NASA and others are looking at how food can be printed digitally, remotely. Things like Pizza? You still have to have the component...Big Data through the Years
Earlier this month, Gil Press of Forbes wrote A Very Short History Of Big Data. The history in this article begins in 1944, but jumps every few years until 2008...Mobile Completes Us
In E-Commerce Times: MicroStrategy CEO on how our mobile presence completes us. An interesting take. Helps form our identity, yes. And beyond the idea of...Information Dashboard Design
Stephen Few is coming out with a new edition of his book: Dashboard Design. He writes about it here. Have not read it, but may be the time to do that. From his...DDOS as Civil Disobedience
For a while now, I have been thinking about what civil disobedience looks like in the Internet Age. Certainly DDOS attacks, and politically motivated hacking in...Death, life and place in great digital cities
At the heart of the Smarter Cities movement is the belief that the use of engineering and IT technologies, including social media and information marketplaces,...Causes of World Death
A good dynamic visualization of this data in Tableau public, emphasizing a treemap visualization and supporting bar charts. I think this could be used for many...Illusions of Cognition in Computing
Interesting Forrester piece: In fact all AI and expertise based systems appear to be cognitive. How is this an illusion? In fact in our own experiments with...Twin Primes Are Useful
Why the recent breakthrough is important Yitang Zhang, of the University of New Hampshire, has apparently proved a finite approximation to the famous Twin Prime...Management Tools and Trends 2013
A look at the year 2013: From Darrell Rigby, my correspondent at Bain & Company. " .... Global executives who participated in Bain & Company's 14th Management...Do you KNOW how you KNOW what you KNOW? I don't KNOW.
When watching Jeopardy with Darling if I get a question correct that is NOT in my usual store of knowledge (that is NOT Ramsey Theory, NOT Vice Presidents, NOTHow...
Progress on Computing in Schools: 2 Countries, 2 States
05.21.2013Computing is making progress towards becoming a primary and secondary schools subject worldwide. I report on three personal meetings about …
Computer Science: Catch Them Early
05.16.2013Informatics education for primary and secondary schools
CHI 2013 in Paris: A Personal Review of the Conference
05.06.2013In this short report I offer some reflections on the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …