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Jobs in an Always-on World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Jobs in an Always-on World

In Adage: Time to Reinvent Job Structures to Survive an Always-On WorldMarketing Is About Making Your Brand as Relevant as Possible, and Now You Need to Do It in...

Quantum Co-Acceleration
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Co-Acceleration

More on D-wave quantum computing, which we have followed for some years.  There remain very difficult analytical problems that we need computer speed to solve routinely...

More about the NSA's Tailored Access Operations Unit
From Schneier on Security

More about the NSA's Tailored Access Operations Unit

Der Spiegel has a good article on the NSA's Tailored Access Operations unit: basically, its hackers. The article also has more details on how QUANTUM -- particularly...

A Look Back on 2013’s Posts
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

A Look Back on 2013’s Posts

Time for an end of the year look back on the posts from 2013. I was trying to decide if I should just report on the most read posts or do the work to list my favorite...

Appliance Makers and the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Appliance Makers and the Internet of Things

More on the Internet of Things consortium, connecting appliances:" ... Home appliance makers connect with open source 'Internet of things' projectThe AllSeen Alliance...

MindMeld Again: Focusing Employee Work
From The Eponymous Pickle

MindMeld Again: Focusing Employee Work

Early this year I mentioned MindMeld,  which was meant to monitor your conversations and give helpful advice.  Now MindMeld is here as an App.  We looked to methods...

CSTA Awards Chapter Advocacy Mini Grants
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA Awards Chapter Advocacy Mini Grants

Recently, CSTA completed the first round of CSTA chapter advocacy mini grants. These mini grants were given to local chapters for activities focusing on affecting...

Interesting Links 30 December 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 30 December 2013

Not a lot to share this week. Last week was Christmas and I spent a lot less time on the Internet than usual. However if you are looking for a few interesting things...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

The Winner Is…

Our selections for best results of the year Terry Gilliam is the director of the movie The Zero Theorem. This science fiction film came out just this past year,...

Smart Watch from Qualcomm
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Watch from Qualcomm

I have been watching companies like Qualcomm and their activities outside of the typical.    Posts on that here.  Now new report on their Smartwatch capability....

Discovery Driven Prototyping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Discovery Driven Prototyping

In Computing Now:     An area we examined.  Here an abstract of the paper at the link:" ... A new prototyping technique uses discovery-driven prototypes to letIt...

National Academies Workshop: Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

National Academies Workshop: Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data

The National Academies Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications is sponsoring a workshop on Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data, hosted...

Joseph Stiglitz on Trust
From Schneier on Security

Joseph Stiglitz on Trust

Joseph Stiglitz has an excellent essay on the value of trust, and the lack of it in today's society. Trust is what makes contracts, plans and everyday transactions...

When delegating… consider quality, maintenance and learning
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

When delegating… consider quality, maintenance and learning

John Cook provides some valuable advice today about when to delegate. An important point he raises is that doing a per-hour analysis makes little sense since human...

Invisibility Ideas Discussed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Invisibility Ideas Discussed

Because invisibility captures the public imagination, and the physical approach can be readily described, it has gathered some intense discussion.   Obvious and...

Digital Taste Buds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Taste Buds

A long time interest that we explored with several research groups.  Virtual taste has huge implications.  Was relevant when we were still selling foods.  It also...

From Computational Complexity

2013 Complexity Year in Review

The complexity result of the year goes to The Matching Polytope has Exponential Extension Complexity by Thomas Rothvoss. Last year's paper of the year showed that...

Interactive Time Geographic Data Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Interactive Time Geographic Data Visualization

I like this very simple example of how to visualize time based geographic data.  An example in the Tableau Public Gallery.  Click on it and play with the interaction...

Machine Learning Mastery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning Mastery

I was just reminded of the blog Machine Learning Mastery, which gives technical but non mathematical advice about machine learning.   Most recently an itemabout...

IBM Predicts Smarter Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Predicts Smarter Things

Not unsurprising.   Technology trends IBM has been touting through their excellent 'smarter' series. Most interesting are the links embedded as examples.  We all...
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