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From My Biased Coin

Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop

I'm just off a plane coming home from the Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop at Stanford. It went really well, and I really enjoyed it.I think a variety of things... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 22, 2011 at 03:53 AM

From Wild WebMink

Open Core MySQL? Contributor Agreements!

Oracle has finally done what the business management at MySQL had been asymptotically approaching for years. It’s taking MySQL open core. It’s interesting to read... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | September 21, 2011 at 10:27 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The Enterprise and the Network: DemandTec

I had an interesting conversation with DemandTec a few weeks ago about how they have constructed a network to help retail and manufacturing companies collaborate... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 21, 2011 at 05:27 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

LIVE Soon: Congressional Hearing on the NITRD Program

At 2pm EDT today, the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education will convene a hearing about the Federal government’s Networking... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | September 21, 2011 at 05:22 PM

From Putting People First

BBC Viewpoint: Anthropology meets technology

Intel’s corporate anthropologist Genevieve Bell has written an elegant introductory article for the BBC site on the role of anthropology in the corporation – particularly... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 21, 2011 at 03:11 PM

From Putting People First

Digital AlterNatives with a Cause?

Hivos (The Netherlands) and the Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) have consolidated their three year knowledge inquiry into the field of youth,... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 21, 2011 at 03:05 PM

From Computational Complexity

Where do theorems go to die?

(Joint post by Bill Gasarch and Daniel Apon) Recently I (Daniel) reviewed Dexter Kozen's Theory of Computation (it was AWESOME). You can find the review here... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | September 21, 2011 at 02:01 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Kindle Books Available from Libraries

Amazon has launched a Kindle book borrowing service from over 11,000 libraries. You don't need a physical Kindle, only a free App for your device and an AmazonPress... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 21, 2011 at 02:01 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Waitrose CrowdSources With its Shoppers

From IdeaConnection: The UK retailer Waitrose is using crowd sourcing techniques with its customers to develop new products. We will continue to see more of "... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 21, 2011 at 01:27 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Jane McGonigal: Reality is Broken

Jane McGonigal thinks reality is broken. Why else would so many of us escape it to play hours and hours of video games? But among all the media hype about theReality... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | September 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM

From Schneier on Security

Shifting Risk Instead of Reducing Risk

Risks of teen driving: For more than a decade, California and other states have kept their newest teen drivers on a tight leash, restricting the hours when they... schneier
From Schneier on Security | September 21, 2011 at 11:58 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Launching a New Resource for CS Undergraduates

We’re launching something brand new today! The Computing Community Consortium’s Research Community & Student Outreach Subcommittee is pleased to announce a unique... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | September 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM

From Putting People First

Green markets must be created by you

Tuuli Kaskinen and Roope Mokka, researchers at Demos Helsinki, argue in an essay that we need more than mere sustainable versions of everyday products: we need... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 21, 2011 at 08:11 AM

From Putting People First

Designing social tools around user interests

The key to designing social media well lies in designing it for a user Experientia
From Putting People First | September 21, 2011 at 07:40 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Employee Segmentation

Bain & Company writes about Employee Segmentation: Using employee segmentation to bring out the best in your workforce. I had never thought about segmenting... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 21, 2011 at 05:14 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Brandwashed Published

Martin Lindstrom's new book: Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate our Minds and Persuade us to Buy is now available. See this press release for much... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 20, 2011 at 08:34 PM

From Putting People First

The Language of Interfaces

Des Traynor recently spoke at the Content Strategy Forum in London about the importance of which words used in an interface. The difference between Facebook’s Like... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 20, 2011 at 04:30 PM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Emerging Knowledge Is a Private Business

Collaboration is often encouraged in science: it is viewed as an intrinsically good thing. Yet there are downsides to collaboration. The most obvious downside is... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | September 20, 2011 at 04:28 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Internal Social Software

Excellent Mashable piece on the use of social software inside the company. I am now involved with two projects that are seriously using this concept. It makes... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | September 20, 2011 at 04:09 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Computer Scientist Among 2011 MacArthur Fellows

Congratulations to Shwetak Patel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, who has just... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | September 20, 2011 at 03:55 PM