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Data Rights
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Rights

What kinds of rights should we have when dealing with systems that gather our data?  Does this mean we should not accept agreements that do no make this clear?Thoughtful...

CFP: CIKM 2011 Industry Event
From The Noisy Channel

CFP: CIKM 2011 Industry Event

As I posted a few months ago, I’m organizing

CFP: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing
From The Noisy Channel

CFP: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing

Pankaj Mehra and I are guest editors for an upcoming special issue of

Making 'Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences' Even More Awesome
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Making 'Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences' Even More Awesome

I'm getting ready to teach our introductory computer course for arts and social science majors again this summer.  If you read my blog around this time last year...

PayPal Ties EWallets
From The Eponymous Pickle

PayPal Ties EWallets

The method uses text messages to transfer payments.  The article goes on to provide a good overview of the current market, tests underway, and the belief by many...

Decline of Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Decline of Manufacturing

MJ Perry on a global trend of a decline in manufacturing.  Though with population increasing don't we still need to have more things to be manufactured?   Very...

Examining A Measure of Social Connectivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Examining A Measure of Social Connectivity

In Roughtype:  A look at a study that generates a measure called NFC, or 'need for cognition', which is ' ... "a recognized indicator for deep or shallow thinking...

CNBC.com
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CNBC.com

Yesterday, CNBC.com published a slideshow of 10 products and companies that have changed the world. Calling them “game-changing disruptions,” CNBC.com reported:...

Please Vote
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Please Vote

The CSTA Board of Directors are elected for two year terms. And, as opposed to many corporate Boards of Directors, where the vote of the individual shareholder...

IBM and Yale Team Up to Teach Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and Yale Team Up to Teach Analytics

Business intelligence professionals are needed and companies and schools are seeking to provide the analytics training.  Includes a video.

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eye Preserved in a Jar
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eye Preserved in a Jar

Great picture from the Smithsonian Institution.

TED Talk
From Schneier on Security

TED Talk

This is a surprise. My TED talk made it to the website. It's a surprise because I didn't speak at TED. I spoke last year at a regional TED event, TEDxPSU. And...

Augmented Reality in the Workplace
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality in the Workplace

In ReadwriteWeb:  Some thoughts about the value of using AR in the workplace.  I agree, there is more opportunity there, since at least currently, there tends to...

Visualize This
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visualize This

FlowingData previews the book: Visualize This. " ... The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics   A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData...

How to Build Confidence
From The Eponymous Pickle

How to Build Confidence

In the HBR Blog: How to Build Confidence. " ... Very few people succeed in business without a degree of confidence. Yet everyone, from young people in their first...

Open Data, Predictive Analytics and Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Data, Predictive Analytics and Visualization

Good piece. Getting all the proper pieces together, making it easy to do, and then being able to interact with multiple sources, kinds and aggregations of data...

NIH, NSF Announce Call for mHealth White Papers
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIH, NSF Announce Call for mHealth White Papers

The NSF, NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and McKesson Foundation announced this week a call for white papers on innovative methods to accelerate the evaluation...

Is science more art or industry?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Is science more art or industry?

In my previous post, I argued that people who pursue double-blind peer review have an idealized “LEGO block” view of scientific research. Research papers are “pure”...

Mobile trends in Africa: a collaborative outlook towards 2020
From Putting People First

Mobile trends in Africa: a collaborative outlook towards 2020

A few months back Rudy de Waele (m-trends) got in touch with Ken Banks (kiwanja | FrontlineSMS) and Eric Hersman (WhiteAfrican) about helping to curate a collaborative...

Book: Simple And Usable
From Putting People First

Book: Simple And Usable

Simple And Usable: Web, Mobile and Interaction Design by Giles Colborne New Riders, Sep 2010 Paperback, 208 pages In a complex world, products that are easy to...
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