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From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Neuroscience to Understand Shopper Decisions

The work described in this piece will also use the technologies developed by Sands Research for mobile brain scanning. Another step forward for the retailing use... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 25, 2011 at 01:24 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Never Underestimate a 13-Year Old With a Computer and a Dream

Now I taught middle school during the longest year of my life. And I do guest talks at middle schools all the time. But honestly I do not have the knack for doing... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 25, 2011 at 12:36 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Recapping the US Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop

What would you do with a 1 Gbps, layer 2, programmable, sliceable network? That Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | May 24, 2011 at 08:29 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Smaller Class Sizes Can Matter

My Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences course usually has several hundred students when taught in the fall and winter (when I'm not teaching)... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | May 24, 2011 at 04:53 PM

From Putting People First

Low2No Camp

Low2No Camp is a strategic design workshop curated by think tank Demos Helsinki. In Low2No Camp thirty carefully chosen urbanists come together to create groundbreaking... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 24, 2011 at 04:49 PM

From Putting People First

Designing Connectivity notebook available

On 15 March 2011 the DeST Research Unit of the INDACO Department of the Milan Politechnic together with the British Consulate General organised Designing Connectivity... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 24, 2011 at 04:34 PM

From Putting People First

Book: New Media Technologies and User Empowerment

New Media Technologies and User Empowerment Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer and Eug Experientia
From Putting People First | May 24, 2011 at 03:27 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-05-24

JCP.next JSR submitted to the JCP I'm delighted to see these plans finally formalised – they have been around ever since Sun as proposals, but the acquisition got... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | May 24, 2011 at 01:01 PM

From Computational Complexity

Cell Phones versus Drunk Driving

Most of you are familiar with the research that using a cell phone is just as dangerous as driving drunk. Method: We used a high-?delity driving simulator toResults... Lance
From Computational Complexity | May 24, 2011 at 11:54 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

IPad Usability

A very detailed study with many case examples by Jakob Nielsen. His work is always useful for designers of online experience. Points out how variable the iPadFull... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 24, 2011 at 11:51 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Google Analytics

Excellent introductory piece on how to use it and interpret the resulting measures. Full Mashable post Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 24, 2011 at 11:29 AM

From Schneier on Security

New Siemens SCADA Vulnerabilities Kept Secret

SCADA systems -- computer systems that control industrial processes -- are one of the ways a computer hack can directly affect the real world. Here, the fearssuccessfully... schneier
From Schneier on Security | May 24, 2011 at 10:50 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Imagine Cup WorldWide Game Competition Finalists 2011

Andrew Parsons is the Game Capitan for the Worldwide Imagine Cup Game competition. This gives him a good close look at the competitors especially the finalists.... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 24, 2011 at 09:37 AM

From Wild WebMink

? GagaGate, DRM and How To Cripple The Cloud

I’ve been watching the music marketing stunt that Amazon have pulled today with some interest. The story is that Amazon US are selling the new Lady Gaga album Born... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | May 23, 2011 at 08:35 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Get $1 Million

“How do you get people to buy more? That’s the $1 million question — literally.” RichRelevance and Overstock.com have partnered to offer the first-ever Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | May 23, 2011 at 08:33 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation and Invention Not the Same

Good Techdirt piece on the exploration of innovation. We met with PARC and had a lunch with Engelbart and discussed how the mouse eventually emerged, hoping to... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 23, 2011 at 05:08 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Law and Big Data

Fascinating piece on the legal implications of big data and visualization. An area that I had not considered fully before. In particular: " .. Predicting the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | May 23, 2011 at 04:48 PM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA Becomes a Founding Member of PACE

Last month, CSTA Executive Director Chris Stephenson and I attended the organizational meeting for the Partnership for Advancing Computing Education or PACE. PACE...
From Computer Science Teachers Association | May 23, 2011 at 03:28 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIH Holding Crowdsourcing Workshop This Summer

A number of agencies within the NIH have come together to announce a one-day meeting on “Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation,” to be held on the... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | May 23, 2011 at 03:22 PM

From Putting People First

Growing Fredericia

Arup, Effekt and Experientia win second price in parallel urban renewal competition in Fredericia, Denmark The FredriciaC jury announced the results of an ambitious... Experientia
From Putting People First | May 23, 2011 at 03:21 PM