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CCC to Hold Second Leadership in Science Policy Institute
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC to Hold Second Leadership in Science Policy Institute

Last year, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) & CRA’s Government Affairs Committee held it’s first Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) to help...

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From The Eponymous Pickle

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Hacking TSA PreCheck
From Schneier on Security

Hacking TSA PreCheck

I have a hard time getting worked up about this story: I have X'd out any information that you could use to change my reservation. But it's all there, PNR, seat...

Why I Left My Macbook For A Chromebook
From Wild WebMink

Why I Left My Macbook For A Chromebook

Maybe it’s just a lustful fling, but for now, the only laptop in my life is my 3G Chromebook. Read about it on InfoWorld.

Build a Personal Brand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Build a Personal Brand

We we were taught the exercise of building a personal  brand in the Enterprise.  At very least the exercise itself has value.   You could even build a blog to do...

Follow The Frog
From Wild WebMink

Follow The Frog

Love this video. Pass it on.

Research Snapshot for Fall 2012
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Research Snapshot for Fall 2012

Now that I'm back in school full time, it's a good time to have a look at where I am research-wise.  Here are some of the projects I'm working on and what progress...

The Good News about Computer Science
From Computer Science Teachers Association

The Good News about Computer Science

As is my usual practice, I have been mulling over what to write in my blog post for approximately the last month. The good news about computer science is that ...

Book: Configuring the Networked Self
From Putting People First

Book: Configuring the Networked Self

Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice by July E. Cohen Yale University Press, 2012 352 pages Free pdf version | Amazon link...

How the Kenyan Base of the Pyramid uses their mobile phone
From Putting People First

How the Kenyan Base of the Pyramid uses their mobile phone

In order to understand mobile phone usage at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) in Kenya, iHub Research and Research Solutions Africa conducted a 6-month study, funded...

Want proof that market fit is everything? Test your app in the slums of Sao Paulo
From Putting People First

Want proof that market fit is everything? Test your app in the slums of Sao Paulo

For the Stanford-educated founders of Emprego Ligado, creating a successful app in Brazil required dismantling every assumption about the target audience. Emprego...

From Computational Complexity

Planarizing Gadgets for Perfect Matching do not Exist!

At Dagstuhl I was delighted when I saw the title of a talk to be given Planarizing Gadgets for Perfect Matching do not Exist because I had asked the question about...

The Risks of Trusting Experts
From Schneier on Security

The Risks of Trusting Experts

I'm not sure what to think about this story: Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly...

What Parc Learned
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Parc Learned

On what Xerox spinoff Parc learned about open innovation.   We visited Parc many times  and they us, always interesting.  " ... The concept of open innovation has...

FLOSS Weekly on Baserock
From Wild WebMink

FLOSS Weekly on Baserock

I was co-host on today’s FLOSS Weekly episode, about the Baserock continuous integration system for Linux (and also the amazing 8 CPU/32 core Baserock Slab server...

Computing Projects for Girls
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computing Projects for Girls

This is a big topic on my mind of late. There is some discussion of this in the comments on my Boring Projects post and well as some responses via Twitter. Joanne...

DARPA Officially Launches Robotics Grand Challenge – Watch Pet-Proto Robot in Action
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

DARPA Officially Launches Robotics Grand Challenge – Watch Pet-Proto Robot in Action

Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) officially kicked off its newest Grand Challenge, DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). As we’ve blogged previously...

Risks of Data Portability
From Schneier on Security

Risks of Data Portability

Peter Swire and Yianni Lagos have pre-published a law journal article on the risks of data portability. It specifically addresses an EU data protection regulation...

Core77 report on the Design Research Conference
From Putting People First

Core77 report on the Design Research Conference

A few days before the EPIC conference in Savannah, Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design organised and hosted its yearly Design Research conference. Although no videos...

Dash Boards and all that
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dash Boards and all that

Interestingly thoughts by Stephen Few. On the use of dash board displays for control. Dashboards are just simple displays.
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