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What human experiences are we missing by adopting new technologies?
From Putting People First

What human experiences are we missing by adopting new technologies?

The more our data is used to determine our needs and desires, the less chance there is for serendipity, writes Bronwen Clune. Are we willing to make this concession...

Wizard Technical Events is Twenty Plus
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wizard Technical Events is Twenty Plus

Wizard Events announces that they have been around for twenty years.  I have scoped out some events with them.   Congratulations!  Their founder Russell Brumfield...

Changing Statistical Standards
From The Eponymous Pickle

Changing Statistical Standards

Debating a standard:Whats in a 95 percent confidence?Is there something special about a 95 percent probability? Absolutely not; a recent paper referred to it as...

Intel Betting on Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Betting on Big Data

In GigaOM:   Not unexpected, have been impressed by Intel's analytical work for some time.  " ... Intel is using big data to improve everything from manufacturing...

Diagrams to Represent Competitors
From The Eponymous Pickle

Diagrams to Represent Competitors

New way to create infographics about your competitors.  The well known petal diagram.   " ....   The Petal Diagram drives your business model canvas ... What the...

Forays Into the Flipped Classroom
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Forays Into the Flipped Classroom

One of the buzzwords in education today is the flipped classroom. I was prompted to try out this model last year when I came down with a stomach bug that prevented...

Unmasking the Puppets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unmasking the Puppets

From New Scientist and ACM:  An experimental method to unmask sock-puppets (usually phony paid commenters, reviewers or contributors) based on the way they write...

Easy Now
From My Biased Coin

Easy Now

In the past year or so, I've gotten reviews back on multiple papers with the complaint that the result was too simple.  My interpretation of review: sure you might...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 18
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 18

November 19 Hearing: The House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the data security of the Healthcare.gov website. 1o a.m., 2318 Rayburn...

Not all citations are equal: identifying key citations automatically
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Not all citations are equal: identifying key citations automatically

Suppose that you are researching a given issue. Maybe you have a medical condition or you are looking for the best algorithm to solve your current problem. A good...

GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg, & Beastie Boys "Princess Machine"
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg, & Beastie Boys "Princess Machine"

This video is so beyond awesome that it deserves its own blog post.  I may or may not have shed a few tears watching it.  Keep on kicking butt, GoldieBlox. We need...

Explaining and Speculating About QUANTUM
From Schneier on Security

Explaining and Speculating About QUANTUM

Nicholas Weaver has a great essay explaining how the NSA's QUANTUM packet injection system works, what we know it does, what else it can possibly do, and how to...

Interesting Links 18 November 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 18 November 2013

I made a quick trip to Tucson AZ over the weekend for the CSTA Board meeting. Beautiful part of the country and I wish I had more time to explore it. But meeting...

Need Business Analytics Help?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Need Business Analytics Help?

Need help with business analytics?  Big Data visualization, analysis and mining?   Writing, Speaking, Managing.  Strategy and Tactics.  Over thirty years of experience...

CCC Chair Susan Graham is named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Chair Susan Graham is named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy

President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate two new members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy (PCAST).  The...

Six Degrees of Connection to P&G
From The Eponymous Pickle

Six Degrees of Connection to P&G

After publishing a item about an infographic I liked,  about products we buy, it was pointed out that some of the data was incorrect.  That is true.  But I wasinfographic...

Cognitive AI Apps in the Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive AI Apps in the Cloud

More on the IBM giving access to Watson technologies to allow the building of cognitive Apps in the cloud.   A good direction.  The App style of infrastructure...

Amazon's Business Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon's Business Models

In the HBR:  Indicating that they constantly audit their business model.  Which has led to increases in the number of US warehouses, and their recent proposal to...

Mining Health Care Information
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mining Health Care Information

In Freebeacon: How can social media information be mined for indications of health related behavior?  " ... Specifically, NLM will look at the “value of tweets...

CSTA Seeking CS Education Leaders for Board Positions
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA Seeking CS Education Leaders for Board Positions

As we approach the start of the new calendar year, it is time to start the CSTA Board of Directors nominations and elections process once again. CSTA is a member...
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