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Computational Art Using Processing for CS0 / GHC13
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Computational Art Using Processing for CS0 / GHC13

I love the curriculum that Zoe Wood and Julie Workman created for their school's CS0 course and that they spoke about at GHC13.  It uses Processing, like the CS1...

Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies Hears from USACM
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies Hears from USACM

In light of the leaks surrounding U.S. national intelligence surveillance efforts, President Obama appointed a group to review those programs to determine if they...

Effectiveness of Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Effectiveness of Analytics

A good piece on the problem.  But ultimately it is ROI that talks.   And making sure that decision makers get the word of what is happening.    Before, during and...

Consumer Products and Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Products and Robotics

Consumer products taking cues from robotics. We did this early on.  But the economics ultimately did not make sense.  " ... Smart thermostats, drones and other...

From Computational Complexity

P vs NP is Elementary? No-- P vs NP is ON Elementary

As I am sure you all know, the TV show Elementary  (Premise- Sherlock Homes in Modern Day NY. He emails and Texts!  Watson is a female! and...) had an episode that...

How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID
From Schneier on Security

How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID

The online anonymity network Tor is a high-priority target for the National Security Agency. The work of attacking Tor is done by the NSA's application vulnerabilities...

Interesting Links 7 October 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 7 October 2013

I’m staring off today with two other sets of links. Some good resource lists created by some friends of mine. Joe Kmoch has a great list of CS and IT educational...

Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall
From CERIAS Blog

Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall

Over the last month or two I have received several invitations to go speak about cyber security. Perhaps the up-tick in invitations is because of the allegations...

Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall
From CERIAS Blog

Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall

Over the last month or two I have received several invitations to go speak about cyber security. Perhaps the up-tick in invitations is because of the allegations...

Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall
From CERIAS Blog

Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall

Over the last month or two I have received several invitations to go speak about cyber security. Perhaps the up-tick in invitations is because of the allegations...

Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall
From CERIAS Blog

Happy Anniversary—Bang My Head Against A Wall

Over the last month or two I have received several invitations to go speak about cyber security. Perhaps the up-tick in invitations is because of the allegations...

Quoting in My Blog Posts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quoting in My Blog Posts

I was asked about how I do quotes in blog posts.    Quotes are always placed in italics, and then embedded in quote marks.  Ellipses are usually included to indicate...

Data Science for Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science for Business

Recommended to me, now scanning and and considering for further use: Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking...

Tableau and Lavastorm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau and Lavastorm

Tableau is meant to be easy to use.  So they have resisted adding analytics directly to their approach.   Their work with Lavastorm adds analytics, which should...

Semantic Startup for Content Generation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Semantic Startup for Content Generation

We experimented with methods like this, first I have seen it in the wild again.  A means of combining human and machine skills.Analytically generating content based...

Fraunhofer Study on Open Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fraunhofer Study on Open Innovation

Fad or phenomena?  Download from link below. UC Berkeley and Fraunhofer study how large companies practice innovationThe Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation...

Neuromarketing Theory and Practice
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing Theory and Practice

A publication of the NMSBA.    You have to be a member of this to get the publication free, and I am not.   Looks to be of interest.    Neurorelaydescribes its...

Web Marginal Cost
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Marginal Cost

Seth Godin and marginal cost on the Web.  Good thoughts, including the mythical marginal cost of 'free' on the web. " ... Until you understand the true marginal...

Randomness Ruling Our Lives
From The Eponymous Pickle

Randomness Ruling Our Lives

Late to it, but completing: The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow.  Always looking for books that do a good job of providing explanations...

Yin and Yang of Corporate Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Yin and Yang of Corporate Innovation

Late to this 2012 NYT article,  Jazz meet Google and Apple" ... Apple and Google pursue very different paths to innovation, but the gap between their two models...
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