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Intelligence Can Never Be Perfect
From Schneier on Security

Intelligence Can Never Be Perfect

Go read this article -- "Setting impossible standards on intelligence" -- on laying blame for the intelligence "failure" that allowed the Underwear Bomber to board...

A Rose is a Rose
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

A Rose is a Rose

Let me think out loud hear a little and get some opinions. On what? On how far to go when naming things in programs. let me start at the beginning. The other day...

Videos of IIT Design Research Conference
From Putting People First

Videos of IIT Design Research Conference


Online Video Storytelling Study
From The Eponymous Pickle

Online Video Storytelling Study

Participate in the SNCR Study on online video storytelling. ' ... The research study will focus on how organizations are using video to enhance their storytelling...

Bertinoro, Day 2
From My Biased Coin

Bertinoro, Day 2

Bertinoro is a really beautiful city.  I just felt like saying that.Today's talks:  Geppino Pucci talked about Bluetooth networks, modeled as a variation of random...

Emerging Market Business Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emerging Market Business Models

Colleague Sammy Haroon does a good job writing about new business models for innovation in emerging markets. Making good use of a recent Economist report on the...

Bringing Augmented Reality to E-Commerce
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bringing Augmented Reality to E-Commerce

From a press release by Metaio. The concept is something I have been look at in a number of forms for years. Combining physical spaces with realities that can then...

Voluntary Security Inspections
From Schneier on Security

Voluntary Security Inspections

What could possibly be the point of this? Cars heading to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport will see random, voluntary inspections Monday. The searches are...

Procter on Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter on Innovation

An interview with P&G's Melanie Healey on Invading 'Whitespace' via Innovation, in Brandweek. Nothing very new, but good view of their directions.

From Computational Complexity

Avner Magen (1968-2010)

Toronto Professor Avner Magen died in a climbing accident on Saturday. He's had a number of important results on a variety of algorithmic topics.Avner was one of...

? Where Justice Applies, And Elsewhere
From Wild WebMink

? Where Justice Applies, And Elsewhere

BP, the oil spill, and the urge to crucify

Upside of Irrationality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Upside of Irrationality

Dan Ariely's new book, The Upside of Irrationality is out. See more at his blog. On the list here.

Remembering Lee De Forest
From The Eponymous Pickle

Remembering Lee De Forest

A number of posts about the invention of the amplifier by Lee De Forest in 1906. A crucial step in the broad application of electronics. As the Gizmodo article...

Terrorizing Ourselves
From Schneier on Security

Terrorizing Ourselves

Who needs actual terrorists? How

Computer Science is Shallow
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Computer Science is Shallow

Zed A. Shaw—author of several books on Ruby and Python—came up with an interesting criticism of Computer Science. He makes some good points: Computer Science is...

Are Links A Distraction?
From The Noisy Channel

Are Links A Distraction?

Eric Andersen called my attention to a post by Nick Carr entitled “Experiments in delinkification“, in which Carr argues that links embedded in text are distracting...

New England Innovation Month 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

New England Innovation Month 2010

June has been designated as New England Innovation month. It was innovation (the company was Digital Equipment) that really caused me to move to New England 30most...

Personal News : "New Job"
From My Biased Coin

Personal News : "New Job"

Since it's more or less been publicly announced at this point, I may as well announce it here:  starting July 1, I'll be the new Area Dean for Computer Scienceunlike...

What Google Tells You
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Google Tells You

In Fortune: If Google Told You to to Jump Off a Cliff, Would You?. A woman sues for literally taking walking advice. As several people have suggested, yes ..in...

? Open Data: Fantastic, But Not Enough
From Wild WebMink

? Open Data: Fantastic, But Not Enough

In an unusual move for such a significant news item, the UK government announced over the weekend that they were ordering all government departments to embark on...
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