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Enough time has perhaps passed from Mihai's controversial post to consider, constructively I hope, some of the comments that arose here on this blog from it.One...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 4, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Download Squad mentions a little mashup utility that lets you quickly get latitudes and longitudes for a place name. Used it some time ago and was glad to be reminded...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 3, 2009 at 08:54 PM
Good Businessweek piece : Can Google Stay on Top of the Web? As Bing, Facebook, Twitter and less well-known upstarts nip at its heels, Google has hundreds of wizards...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 3, 2009 at 07:29 PM
In his blog Mark Montgomery discusses alternatives to the CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer) One of the comments in the thread there points to the fact that there are...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 3, 2009 at 07:47 AM
Another capability we studied in the enterprise, here slashdot article talks about patents that IBM has applied for in this via a platform for acquiring knowlege...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 2, 2009 at 07:10 PM
For the U.N. General Assembly:
For those entranced by security theater, New York City is a sight to behold this week. A visit to one of the two centers of the...schneier From Schneier on Security | October 2, 2009 at 05:23 PM
In a tweet a few days ago, David Bacon
wonders why everyone always assumes all he can do is quantum computing? Oh, because that's all he's done. Time to do something...Lance From Computational Complexity | October 2, 2009 at 05:16 PM
Donald Norman recently gave a keynote address at the “21st Century Transmedia Innovation Symposium” in Seoul, Korea.
“Normal dictionaries do not have the word ‘transmedia...Experientia From Putting People First | October 2, 2009 at 02:50 PM
Madhu Sudan gave a colloquium at Harvard yesterday on his work on Universal Semantic Communication and Goal-Oriented Communication (both with Brendan Juba, thehere...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 2, 2009 at 10:55 AM
The second issue of Touchpoint, the sdn’s Service Design Journal, is out.
Entitled “Health and Service Design”, this brand-new issue features articles of Service...Experientia From Putting People First | October 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Over the last 18 months, I have had the great honor of serving as a Commissioner on the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities. Today, it gives...zephoria From Apophenia | October 2, 2009 at 09:30 AM
When I wrote about Organic Software recently, I was largely eulogising the community dimension of open source software. But there's another way in which theThe...webmink From Wild WebMink | October 2, 2009 at 09:28 AM
This is interesting:
Professor Gernot Heiser, the John Lions Chair in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and a senior principal...Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 2, 2009 at 09:25 AM
Bill Gasarch is proposing a manifesto on Open Scholarship. What a great idea! Imagine thousands of researchers openly agreeing on practices making research more...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | October 1, 2009 at 06:01 PM