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Search vs. Browse
One of the oldest distinctions in information access is between searching and browsing. Does a user initiate an information-seeking…
From Putting People First
Innovation trickles in a new direction
Business Week reports on how some companies like General Electric, Nokia, and others are reversing the traditional process where products are created in rich nations...
From Putting People First
Discussing the principles for a digital social enterprise
Over the last few months, Franco Papeschi and Tory Dunn of the Vodafone User Experience team have been doing work on a set of principles and guidelines to support...
From insideHPC
Cloudera launched to offer commercialized
You might recall that Hadoop is the open source application built from the few papers Google engineers published on their MapReduce infrastructure for dealing with...
From insideHPC
Computer science enrollment up for first time in six
The results of a recent study by the CRA are out, and the news is good for computer science The number of undergraduate students majoring in computer science significantly...
From insideHPC
Computing research that changed the world
From the CCC’s blog Ed Lazowska and Peter Lee on November 4 proposed a brainstorming exercise to identify about a dozen game-changing advances in computing research...
From CSDiary
CS Enrollments Are Up, According to Latest CRA Taulbee Report
The latest edition of the CRA Taulbee Report has just been released, and it confirms what we have been seeing in our CS application trends here at CMU and other...
From Putting People First
Collaborative Services: social innovation and design for sustainability
“What is a sustainable lifestyle? What will our daily lives become if we agree to change some of our routines? How do we reduce our environmental impact without...
From Putting People First
The location of anything is becoming everything
We live in the Global Location Age.
From Putting People First
Service design at Kraft
Reena Jana of Business Week reports from SXSW on the activities of Moshe Tamssot, Kraft
From Putting People First
A participatory website supporting families with disabled children
The Turin-based non-profit organisation Area, which supports families with disabled children, just launched its new website, developed with the intensive support...
From Springenwerk Blog
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Capistrano and Solaris « Jamie Orchard-Hays
From insideHPC
TACC Names Stanzione Deputy
The Texas Advanced Computing Center [TACC] has announced that they have named Dan Stanzione, Jr as Deputy Director of the center.
From insideHPC
Bio-computing thrust at
This just crossed my mailbox this evening: news of that the bio-computing thrust in the SC09 technical program is looking for content. From the email This year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pre-Businesses
Considering non-monetizable pre-businesses whose 'cool clock' may be ticking. Can you guess what social network that ZDNet is talking about? A good piece on the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Differentiated Instruction
As I was grading a movie summary from my Fundamentals of Programming class, yesterday, I noticed the varying insights that the students had to the Charles Babbage...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 15
March 17 Meeting: The Election Assistance Commission will hold a meeting. One of the agenda items concerns voter registration databases., 11 a.m., 1225 New York...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Net-Map
From Visualcomplexity, something called Net-Map which allows users to manipulate the relationship of players and decisions. What is interesting here is that the...
From The Eponymous Pickle