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From Computational Complexity

Dagstuhl Typecast

Nerd Shot from Dagstuhl Seminar 12421 Lance: Welcome to another Typecast from beautiful Schloss Dagstuhl. I’m here with Bill for the Workshop on Algebraic.Bill... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | October 17, 2012 at 07:49 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tweets are Big Data

Are Tweets data? In GigaOm. With the increasing use of tweets the need for real-time analytics is happening more, I recently did an evaluation that dealt with... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM

From Schneier on Security

Genetic Privacy

New report from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Biothethical Issues. It's called "Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing." The Commission... schneier
From Schneier on Security | October 17, 2012 at 11:23 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Killing Curiosity

I have real mixed feelings about the Advanced Placement exams in general and the AP Computer Science exam in particular. Very mixed. There are some criticisms in... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 17, 2012 at 09:49 AM

From Putting People First

UX articles and dissertations from Denmark

Mind Design, the Design Research Webzine of the Danish Centre for Design Research, contains a wealth of information, all available in English. Here are some highlights... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 17, 2012 at 09:28 AM

From Wild WebMink

Open Source and Cloud

After the Community Summit at Open World Forum, three of the speakers – including me – spent 10 minutes discussing how cloud computing impacts the open source community... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | October 17, 2012 at 09:15 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Blog Reaches Over 300,000 Views!

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog, which was created in 2008, has served as a means for exchanging information between the research community and funding... Kenneth Hines
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | October 17, 2012 at 02:46 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

A Temporal Forecasting Story

Connecting methods to provide forecasts. Forecasts based on semantically rich text data, such as that based on blog entries, news posts, or tweets. Today I met... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 17, 2012 at 01:49 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Sites

A number of sites to watch that deal with the topic of big data. lots of hype of late, but the topic needs to be watched as techniques evolve. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | October 17, 2012 at 01:22 AM

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

One Man’s Floor Is Another Man’s Ceiling

Factoring again, always factoring… Peter Borwein is among those who carry forward the title mission of Alan Turing’s famous paper, “On Computable Numbers…” With... Pip
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | October 16, 2012 at 07:37 PM

From My Biased Coin

Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Postoc / Visiting Scholar Call

Harvard's CRCS is looking for postdocs! Please apply....We're very interested in theorists (and, of course, non-theorists as well!) in all of the areas listedhttp... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | October 16, 2012 at 07:05 PM

From Wild WebMink

Kicking Comic Sans

If you have been using the font Comic Sans to support dyslexics, there’s a new font in town – see ComputerWorldUK. Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | October 16, 2012 at 04:31 PM

From Schneier on Security

Studying Zero-Day Attacks

Interesting paper: "Before We Knew It: An Empirical Study of Zero-Day Attacks In The Real World," by Leyla Bilge and Tudor Dumitras: Abstract: Little is known... schneier
From Schneier on Security | October 16, 2012 at 11:12 AM

From Putting People First

Book: Innovating for People

Innovating for People Handbook of Human-Centered Design Methods by LUMA Institute 2012, 86 pages Abstract Innovation is an economic imperative that calls for more... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM

From Putting People First

Human Drives card set

Our friends at human-centered design consultancy Namahn in Brussels have created a lovely “human drive” card set to be used as a source of inspiration for ideation... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 16, 2012 at 10:28 AM

From Putting People First

BMW’s electric experience

Martin C. Pedersen reports in a long article for Metropolis Magazine on the 2014 BMW i3, the company’s first fully electric vehicle aimed at city driving. The article... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 16, 2012 at 09:16 AM

From Putting People First

Brave New City

Metropolis Magazine asked seven visionary design teams, both established and up-and-coming, what they predict a fully accessible city might look like (and better... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 16, 2012 at 08:55 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Visual Basic Gangnam Style!

Last week I was browsing though my RSS feeds and came across a post called Python Gangnam Style! that was all about playing music with Python. Now Python is a fine... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 16, 2012 at 08:51 AM

From Putting People First

Creating behaviour change in people using mobile technology

Rajeev Suri posted a short interview with Gustav Praekelt of Praekelt Consulting and the Praekelt Foundation, who focuses on creating behaviour change in people... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 16, 2012 at 08:39 AM

From Putting People First

The Age of User Experience Design – Infographic

The growth of the User Experience Design field is breathtaking, but well deserved. Thanks to UX Designers all over the world, the quality of products has increased... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 16, 2012 at 08:28 AM