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From Schneier on Security

Obama's Continuing War Against Leakers

The Obama Administration has a comprehensive "insider threat" program to detect leakers from within government. This is pre-Snowden. Not surprisingly, the combination... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 29, 2013 at 07:28 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 29 July 2013

Short week last week as my wife and I headed down to Walt Disney World for a bit of actual real vacation. That doesn’t mean I didn’t collect a good batch of links... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 29, 2013 at 06:25 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Blended Realities: Glass and Printers

I like the idea of blending emergent technologies. Here the sensory absorption of Google Glass and the realization capability of 3D Printing. " .... It was great... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2013 at 07:10 PM

From My Biased Coin

In Sickness...

One of the more amusing conversations at the social part of the Microsoft faculty summit (initiated by the humorous commentary of Kevin Leyton-Brown) started with... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 28, 2013 at 03:01 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Sales Force Motivation

Using Gamification dynamics at Ford Canada. Sales teams, which by their nature are already competitive, are a natural place to insert gaming methods that enhance... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2013 at 01:35 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality as Maintenance Tool

Via Junaio. Work on using augmented reality as an after service maintenance delivery tool for Bosch. Maintenance enhancement in manufacturing was also an area... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2013 at 01:13 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Secure Stealth Clouds

In GigaOM: Amazon battles IBM to build a stealth cloud for the CIA. Is this, as the article suggests, a battle for the soul of the future Information Technology... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2013 at 01:09 PM

From Apophenia

Baby Ziv

Ziv Lotan Boyd was born into this world shortly after midnight on Sunday, July 28 after a movie-esque labor (complete with a NYC cabbie running honking like mad... zephoria
From Apophenia | July 28, 2013 at 12:01 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

R Video

So just what just is the open source statistical, data science and visualization language R? A short video that describes the history, community and applications... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 28, 2013 at 09:53 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Mathematics of Poker

Some recent exposure to card game theory led me to this WSJ article. " ... This growth over the past decade has been accompanied by a profound change in how the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 27, 2013 at 11:45 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Sharing Location Data

A Secure Location Data Locker: " ... OpenPaths is a secure data locker for personal location information .... Using our mobile apps you can track your location,... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 27, 2013 at 02:19 PM

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Thirteen Sigma

Monitoring fabrication in industry and chess “Hall of Fame” source. Bill Smith joined Motorola as a quality control engineer in 1986. He coined the term Six Sigma... KWRegan
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | July 27, 2013 at 02:13 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Government Controlling Your Car

In Forbes: A demonstration about how you can hack into an automobile via a government mandated port and perform some very worrisome actions. Hackers and the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 27, 2013 at 01:39 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Die Empty

Todd Henry of Accidential Creative's curiously named new book: Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day is available for pre-order. Link to read chapter 1 free... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 27, 2013 at 01:20 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Theory and Analytics

Big Data Analytics at Microsoft Research. From a recent workshop there. " ... “The top-level takeaway for attendees was that big-data analytics is an area where... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 27, 2013 at 11:24 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Google's IT Mission Statement

In Forbes: A view of where they are going and the kinds of empowerment being developed. Google CIO Ben Fried speaks: " ... Fried and his leadership team defined... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 27, 2013 at 11:15 AM

From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Song

It's "Sparky the Giant Squid." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 26, 2013 at 05:27 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the Centers of Excellence for Big Data Computing in the Biomedical Sciences (U54) funding opportunity announcement... Shar Steed
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 26, 2013 at 04:17 PM

From Schneier on Security

NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA Did

We interrupt this blog for some important inter-agency rivalry. The fourth part is still uncracked, though. Older links. schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 26, 2013 at 02:19 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Mining for the Midsize Business

In the large enterprise we constructed a number of datamining efforts that looked to classify solutions based on measurements we had gathered. One popular technique... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2013 at 01:53 PM