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From My Biased Coin
"Core" TCS
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quick Latitudes and Longitudes
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Challengers
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alternatives to the CKO
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...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sensible hashing of variable-length strings is impossible
Consider the problem of hashing an infinite number of keys
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gathering Knowledge with Games
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...
From Schneier on Security
"Security Theater in New York City"
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...
From Computational Complexity
On Being Narrow
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...
From Putting People First
Donald Norman on co-creation as a
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...
From Putting People First
Panoremo, a tool to assess the emotional experience of environments
As part of his Design for Interaction MSc. at the TU Delft, David G
From My Biased Coin
Semantic Communication, Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan gave a colloquium at Harvard yesterday on his work on Universal Semantic Communication and Goal-Oriented Communication (both with Brendan Juba, thehere...
From Putting People First
Touchpoint Issue 2
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...
From Apophenia
Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
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...
From Wild WebMink
Truth In Labelling
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...
From Schneier on Security
Proving a Computer Program's Correctness
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Innovation
A guide to implementing open innovation. ' ... The report,
From Daniel Lemire's Blog