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AutoDesk and 3D Printing
From The Eponymous Pickle

AutoDesk and 3D Printing

Used to commonly work with Autodesk.  They were the first company to provide PC based  drawing management.  More mentions in this blog about Autodesk. Later weIn...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

The Evil Genius

Do We Live In A Simulation? René Descartes is famous for countless things in mathematics—Cartesian products, Cartesian coordinates, Descartes’ rule of signs, the...

Swarms of Intelligent Cooperative Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Swarms of Intelligent Cooperative Drones

Swarms of drones as emergency responders.  See some of my previous writings about swarms. How do we install cooperative intelligence? How is cooperative intelligence...

SNCR Millennial  Report Abstracts
From The Eponymous Pickle

SNCR Millennial Report Abstracts

SNCR Supported Study ....  (Society of New Consumer Research)Millennials are leading the social commerce movement. They are more likely than any other group toKey...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid vs. Owlfish
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid vs. Owlfish

This video is pretty fantastic: The narrator does a great job at explaining what's going on here, blow by gross blow, but here are the highlights: Black-eyed...

CROSSBEAM: NSA Exploit of the Day
From Schneier on Security

CROSSBEAM: NSA Exploit of the Day

Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: CROSSBEAM (TS//SI//REL) CROSSBEAM is a GSM module that mates a modified commercial...

Co3 Systems at the RSA Conference
From Schneier on Security

Co3 Systems at the RSA Conference

Co3 Systems is going to be at the RSA Conference. We don't have our own booth on the show floor, but there are four ways you can find us. Monday, we're at the...

Hospitality Internet of Everything
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hospitality Internet of Everything

I like this take on the hospitality industry.   And its relationship to Big Data.  The industry is an example where it makes much sense to utilize real time data...

History of Rational Economic Forecasting
From The Eponymous Pickle

History of Rational Economic Forecasting

In the Harvard Business Review Blogs:  May require registration. Good thoughts.  When I taught forecasting it was always about understanding how the forecast was...

Stop Small Thinking about Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stop Small Thinking about Big Data

A good, free 15 page pamphlet about Big Data.  Co Sponsored by Teradata.  Looks to be a set of objective observations about the opportunities and cautions.   Integration...

The myth of the scientist as a disinterested individual
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The myth of the scientist as a disinterested individual

We like to have an idealized view of the scientist. He or she is someone who chose against a high-paying career to pursue the ideals of science and academia. Unlike...

Building an Online Lie Detector
From Schneier on Security

Building an Online Lie Detector

There's an interesting project to detect false rumors on the Internet. The EU-funded project aims to classify online rumours into four types: speculation -- such...

DARPA Announces New Program in Big Data
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

DARPA Announces New Program in Big Data

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the launch of the Big Mechanism program to develop automated technologies that will help explain...

University of Arkansas Program For Minority Students & Majority Women
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

University of Arkansas Program For Minority Students & Majority Women

An interesting looking summer program. One has to get there on their own from what I can tell but no cost other than that. Open to 11th/12th graders. TECHNOLOGY...

3D Sensor Enabled Smartphone
From The Eponymous Pickle

3D Sensor Enabled Smartphone

In Mashable:   Project Tango from Google.  Quite an interesting effort.   Relates to a number of our indoor navigation experiments.  Ready here to do a retail store...

A Twisting Phone
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Twisting Phone

My son pointed me to this iPhone App, that twists a phone on its long axis, to enable automated panorama images. It was featured recently on Shark Tank.   An example...

Brian Krebs
From Schneier on Security

Brian Krebs

Nice profile of Brian Krebs, cybersecurity journalist: Russian criminals routinely feed Mr. Krebs information about their rivals that they obtained through hacks...

CANDYGRAM: NSA Exploit of the Day
From Schneier on Security

CANDYGRAM: NSA Exploit of the Day

Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog: CANDYGRAM (S//SI//REL) Mimics GSM cell tower of a target network. Capable(S...

Twitter Accounts for CSTA Members To Follow
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Twitter Accounts for CSTA Members To Follow

Patrice Gans has a great post on the CSTA blog about Creating a Professional Learning Network that I wanted to share. Normally I would just include a link on my...

Sun Friends On The Move
From Wild WebMink

Sun Friends On The Move

I see that two friends I worked with at Sun — most notably creating blogs.sun.com — are on the move. Danese Cooper has decided that she can take on one more corporation’s...
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