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From Computer Science Teachers Association

Game Design Competition: The National STEM Video Game Challenge

Competitions engage students, build excitement, and can push CS learning to higher levels. Here is an opportunity to enthuse your students with a competition using...
From Computer Science Teachers Association | January 17, 2013 at 07:40 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tide Pods to Roll Worldwide

Announced in the local press. Tide Pods to go global. I mention this because I was involved in early research in this area of discontinuous innovation, which... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 17, 2013 at 06:45 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Past and Near Future of Wearable Computing

I recently mentioned our own enterprise experimentation with wearable computing for maintenance tasks. Consumer oriented wearables are gaining excitement from... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 17, 2013 at 05:48 PM

From Schneier on Security

Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Against Browser Encryption

Last week, a story broke about how Nokia mounts man-in-the-middle attacks against secure browser sessions. The Finnish phone giant has since admitted that it decrypts... schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 17, 2013 at 03:50 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Agility as Part of the Process

Thinking more about retail bookstores. An article in the HBR online about keeping agility as part of your process. It may cost to do that, but in a volatile world... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 17, 2013 at 03:46 PM

From Putting People First

World’s “tech elite” named to interaction design board

From the press release: Today the Interaction Design Foundation, the IDF, has announced its new executive board. The executive board includes Donald Norman; Bill... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 17, 2013 at 02:47 PM

From Putting People First

Living the Quantified Self life

Festooned with digital accessories that track everything from his heart rate to his footsteps to his sleep patterns, Vanity Fair writer James Wolcott has plugged... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 17, 2013 at 02:18 PM

From Putting People First

Interview with Catalina Naranjo-Bock, UX design researcher

This week Danielle Arad interviewed Catalina Naranjo-Bock, UX design researcher, on key UX issues that are trending today in technology. Catalina is a hybrid user... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 17, 2013 at 02:09 PM

From Schneier on Security

Essay on FBI-Mandated Backdoors

Good essay by Matt Blaze and Susan Landau. schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 17, 2013 at 01:39 PM

From Computational Complexity

Rise of the Engineer

I rarely watch TV commercials anymore but its NFL playoff time and during a game last weekend, the following Ford commercial caught my eye. When not showing... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 17, 2013 at 01:12 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Back To The Classroom

The last few months have been interesting as I’ve been looking at different career options. One of the things I realized right away was that I missed teaching.Bishop... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 17, 2013 at 10:46 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

OpenField Creative Dynamic Media Delivery

A former colleague of mine Scott Frondorf pointed me to his new company: OpenField Creative. We worked together on gamification concepts. They have a great set... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 17, 2013 at 05:15 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The Last Big Bookseller

Excellent detailed article in Knowledge @ Wharton: Under Strategic Management:Barnes & Noble, the Last Big Bookseller Standing: But for How Long? After a disappointing... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 17, 2013 at 03:24 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Industrial and Scientific

My wife Joy runs a store through Amazon. I have become amazed by the variety of goods sold there. Here are Amazon mark downs in industrial and scientific goods... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 17, 2013 at 12:45 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Linking Biological Cells and Electronics

A long time interest. How can biological systems be connected to digital ones? Especially for sensor applications. But also for control. IEEE has followed... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 17, 2013 at 12:33 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Structure of the Social Web

eCairn points to a video of the structure of the social web, and the value of using that infrastructure. Instructive. We visited the Santa Fe Institute around... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 17, 2013 at 12:15 AM

From Wild WebMink

FOSS WYWO Week 2

My weekly FOSS link roundup on ComputerWorld UK for those not following me on Twitter. Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | January 17, 2013 at 12:01 AM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

If Only All Conferences Could Be As Accommodating As CUSEC

I'm speaking at the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC) tomorrow in Montreal. I need to spend some time giving the conference organizers... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | January 16, 2013 at 06:30 PM

From Putting People First

Telling “Stories”: Experientia designs domestic energy consumption monitors (videos)

Videos showcasing two sustainability-related projects are now on Experientia’s YouTube channel. The videos, showing the Ecofamilies and Stories projects respectively... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 16, 2013 at 03:37 PM

From Wild WebMink

About The Java Flaw

Finding the missing details of the zero-day exploit that made the US government tell people to disable Java in the browser was hard. There were plenty of people... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | January 16, 2013 at 02:30 PM