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Game Design with XNA, Kinect and Windows Phone
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Game Design with XNA, Kinect and Windows Phone

Please take a look at the new Game Design with XNA and Microsoft Technologies: Advanced XNA, Kinect, and Windows Phone curriculum units that have just been completed...

Tapping the Power of the Feature Phone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tapping the Power of the Feature Phone

I was recently pointed to the idea of using voice interaction to provide intelligence in the still 63% of cell phones today that are not 'smart' but are dubbedMore...

Tribute to Moms on Mother's Day
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tribute to Moms on Mother's Day

An update to P&G's tribute to Mom's on Mothers day.  Just received through the P&G alumni services wire.

Grading is No Fun
From My Biased Coin

Grading is No Fun

I'm told my exams are not nearly as much fun as I like to think they are.  (It's a very rare occurrence when someone turns in their exam early at my 3-hour final...

Employee Loyalty
From The Eponymous Pickle

Employee Loyalty

Employee loyalty has declined for a very long time. It used to common for people to stay with firms for many years.  But now companies do not in general provide...

MobileRQ
From The Eponymous Pickle

MobileRQ

I was recently introduced to MobileRQ by a correspondent and its developer Tyler McKinley.  Some nicely thought ideas of how to use multiple streams of data to...

Gamification of Processes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamification of Processes

Brainyard overviews Gartner statistics on the gamification of processes.  Pointing to a continuing trend.  I like the idea well applied, but have often seen it '...

History of Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

History of Data Science

A short but informative history of data science.  I lived through lots of this history and recall its effect on the enterprise.    Good resource.

Suite Activity
From Wild WebMink

Suite Activity

While the news about the ongoing Oracle-Google trial in the US has been

One-on-One With 2011 Turing Award Winner Judea Pearl
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

One-on-One With 2011 Turing Award Winner Judea Pearl

As part of a continuing series of interviews with thought leaders in computing, our friends at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

RuggedCom Inserts Backdoor into Its Products
From Schneier on Security

RuggedCom Inserts Backdoor into Its Products

All RuggedCom equipment comes with a built-in backdoor: The backdoor, which cannot be disabled, is found in all versions of the Rugged Operating System made by...

A reminder
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

A reminder

Have you signed up for the best value in computer science education professional development? In today's economy, finding value for your professional development...

USACM Comments on Electronic Health Records
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

USACM Comments on Electronic Health Records

USACM submitted its public comment on the proposed new and revised certification standards and implementation specifications that define the technological capabilities...

Border Chaos
From Wild WebMink

Border Chaos

It’s not just Heathrow – Eurostar is a mess too. I had a meeting in Paris on Monday and was transiting London so took Eurostar instead of flying from Southampton...

NSF, NIH Hold Joint Webinar on BIGDATA Solicitation
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF, NIH Hold Joint Webinar on BIGDATA Solicitation

Earlier this afternoon, the

A Foiled Terrorist Plot
From Schneier on Security

A Foiled Terrorist Plot

We don't know much, but here are my predictions: There's a lot more hyperbole to this story than reality. The explosive would have either 1) been caught by pre...

Attribute-Efficient Learning (Guest Post by Justin Thaler)
From My Biased Coin

Attribute-Efficient Learning (Guest Post by Justin Thaler)

[Editor's comment:  Justin has been having quite a year;  after a paper in ICS, he's recently had papers accepted to ISIT, ICALP, HotCloud, and COLT.  In this guest...

On the Economics of Information
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Economics of Information

In the WSJ:   An examination of the value of information, using the Facebook IPO as an example.  Their take, you are worth about $81 to Facebook.

Teacher Appreciation Week 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Teacher Appreciation Week 2012

Apparently it is teacher appreciation week in the US this week. I have mixed feelings about the whole thing. In my house every day is teacher appreciation day.The...

Speaking in San Jose, May 15
From Wild WebMink

Speaking in San Jose, May 15

There’s a new speaker series being organised and hosted by PayPal at their campus in San Jose. I am honoured to be their inaugural speaker, on May 15th at 7pm....
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