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Cisco Pushes Internet of Everything
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cisco Pushes Internet of Everything

Cisco putting value on the Internet of everything.    Imagine everything is tagged and communicating on the net.  And smart too.

Marketing at the RSA Conference
From Schneier on Security

Marketing at the RSA Conference

Marcus Ranum has an interesting screed on "booth babes" in the RSA Conference exhibition hall: I'm not making a moral argument about sexism in our industry orsame...

Causes of Innovation Failure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Causes of Innovation Failure

In Innovation Excellence:  Some fairly obvious, but worth reviewing to understand the process.

DARPA Grant to Carnegie Proves Seriousness of Cyber-Security Efforts
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

DARPA Grant to Carnegie Proves Seriousness of Cyber-Security Efforts

President Barack Obama, during his State of the Union address, discussed education and the revolution of industry, bringing it back to America. President Obama...

Do NULL markers in SQL cause any harm?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Do NULL markers in SQL cause any harm?

The relational model, and by extension, the language SQL supports the notion of NULL marker. It is commonly used to indicate that some attribute is unknown or non...

Technologies of Surveillance
From Schneier on Security

Technologies of Surveillance

It's a new day for the New York Police Department, with technology increasingly informing the way cops do their jobs. With innovation comes new possibilities but...

When Do We Teach Debugging?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

When Do We Teach Debugging?

I spent some time debugging student code today. Actually I spend a lot of time debugging student code these days. It is not something I mind at all. I see it as...

The disappearing interface
From Putting People First

The disappearing interface

Where static computer screens and smartphones suck in our gaze and extract us from the world around us, many of the most interesting new tech gadgets and ideas...

Designing the political future
From Putting People First

Designing the political future

After technology received so much attention as a key differentiator for Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, Cooper Managing Director Doug LeMoine asked Scout Addis...

Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
From Putting People First

Are our household appliances getting too complicated?

Who needs a kettle with four heat settings? A washing machine with a ‘freshen up’ function? A toaster with six browning modes? What happened to the good old days...

Language issues. An Interview with Brigitte Jordan
From Putting People First

Language issues. An Interview with Brigitte Jordan

Last September, social anthropologist Nora Schenkel had the opportunity to interview Brigitte Jordan, described by Cat Macaulay as one of the “godmothers” of design...

President Obama Answers Question About Computer Science
From Computer Science Teachers Association

President Obama Answers Question About Computer Science

If you haven't seen it yet, check out the two and a half minute video of President Obama on Google+ Hangout. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlOySsg7oxY When...

Real Air Travel Costs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real Air Travel Costs

M J Perry writes that flight travel cost per mile has decreased 50% since 1980.  Interesting statistics and very surprising.   Some of the commenters suggest that...

New Sim City
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Sim City

A new version of SimCity is coming out tomorrow to considerable enthusiasm.  SimCity opened the eyes of a number of executives to the use of simulation when it...

Congress to Consider Patent Litigation Reforms This Week
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Congress to Consider Patent Litigation Reforms This Week

Two events on Capitol Hill this week will focus on potential patent litigation reforms. Both will be available by live webcast. Congressional Briefing on “Patent...

Gamification and Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification and Innovation

In Innovation Excellence: How gamification influences open innovation.  Two favorite topics with spending numbers and forecasts.  We used gamification to innovate...

Saying “Copy” Was A Screw-Up
From Wild WebMink

Saying “Copy” Was A Screw-Up

Why using the word "copy" was probably the screw-up that took away our rights and allowed publishing middle-men everywhere to eternally tax culture.

New Internet Porn Scam
From Schneier on Security

New Internet Porn Scam

I hadn't heard of this one before. In New Zealand, people viewing adult websites -- it's unclear whether these are honeypot sites, or malware that notices thepop...

The Stall at Disney's Tomorrowland
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Stall at Disney's Tomorrowland

I have grown up around both personal and job related visits to Disney. So this review of Tomorrow Land hit home.  Seen it since the late 60s.  Exactly what I had...

Where are the “big problem” jobs?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Where are the “big problem” jobs?

Several authors, scientists and entrepreneurs have lamented our poor ability to innovate. It seems that industry is recruiting few people to work on hard problems...
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