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From Computational Complexity

75 Years of Computer Science

As Lipton and Felten note, today is the 75th anniversary of Turing's On Computable Numbers, With an Application to The Entscheidungsproblem, the seminal paper of...

Academics Move Closer to Wikipedia
From The Eponymous Pickle

Academics Move Closer to Wikipedia

I have been surprised that a large portion of academia was not sympathetic to the Wikipedia, perhaps seeing too much competition there.  But once many people start...

Gamifying Your Startup
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamifying Your Startup

Rajat Paharia of Bunchball  on  ways to gamify your  startup. This takes you beyond just slapping some badge measures on your site, which I agree will not work ...

links for 2011-05-28
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-05-28

John Perry Barlow Tells Copyright Maximalists That They've Got The Fundamentals Wrong Great stuff from JPB here. Shame of it all is despite hist stature in all...

Jesse Schell
From The Eponymous Pickle

Jesse Schell

The site of author,entrepreneur and game designer Jesse Schell.   A number of useful threads there.  I have just received his book: The Art of Game Design: A Book...

Turing Award Winner Talks Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turing Award Winner Talks Technology

From the CACM: Turing Award winner Leslie Valiant discusses machine learning, parallel computing, and computational neuroscience. Machine learning is a favorite...

Friday Squid Blogging: Hand-Cut Paper Silhouette
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Hand-Cut Paper Silhouette

Surprisingly pretty.

? eG8, Control Points and NameCoin
From Wild WebMink

? eG8, Control Points and NameCoin

As the pressure on and from political leaders to “regulate” the internet mounts, the need for basic infrastructure to switch from hierarchical to distributed control...

Thinking about Neuromarketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking about Neuromarketing

Excellent thoughtful post about Neuromarketing and it's criticism and potential value.

Trends in Knowledge Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

Trends in Knowledge Work

Very good piece on what is happening in this space.  I think that the continues overflow of information that is occuring makes just-in-time an essential element...

Automation will make you obsolete, no matter who you are
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Automation will make you obsolete, no matter who you are

I was part of the first generation of kids to receive computers as gifts. I was also part of the first generation of professionals to adopt computer-assisted tele...

Windows Phone 7 Games in Visual Basic
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Windows Phone 7 Games in Visual Basic

I’ve been working all week in C#. Now C# is a wonderful language if you are going to use semi-colons and curly braces. It fixes almost all of the issues I haveYou...

? Future-proofing
From Wild WebMink

? Future-proofing

NameCoin at The Dot-bit Project With internet-control-freak politics everywhere now – just look at eG8 and PROTECTIP for example – the need for distributed infrastructure...

Reverse Engineering Public Criticism
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reverse Engineering Public Criticism

Good piece in the Harvard Blogs.   In particular with a useful retail example: Wal-Mart.  Which also includes criticism of how the company has handled things,. ...

Apple's iOS 4 Hardware Encryption Cracked
From Schneier on Security

Apple's iOS 4 Hardware Encryption Cracked

All I know is what's in these two blog posts from Elcomsoft. Note that they didn't break AES-256; they figured out how to extract the keys from the hardware (iPhones...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

In light of the tornadoes that have devastated parts of the Midwest and South over the past several weeks,

The future of the TV experience
From Putting People First

The future of the TV experience

The second global edition of BLINK, a quarterly media industry magazine published by media agency MediaCom, looks into the future of TV. The 48 page magazine contains...

Book: The Internet of Elsewhere
From Putting People First

Book: The Internet of Elsewhere

The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World by Cyrus Farivar Rutgers University Press May 2011 Abstract Through the lens of culture, The Internet...

Practical Uses of Induction
From My Biased Coin

Practical Uses of Induction

See!  Who says this stuff isn't useful....

Making 3D Models from Photos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making 3D Models from Photos

From Technology Review: Making 3D Models from multiple 2D photos: video. Features free Autodesk software. Worth a look. Done previously only using a laser scanner...
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