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Confessions of an Elementary Computer Science Teacher
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Confessions of an Elementary Computer Science Teacher

After teaching computer science and technology for over 13 years and not even reaching my forties, I started wondering how my teaching methods and style have changed...

Is Cybersecurity a Profession?
From Schneier on Security

Is Cybersecurity a Profession?

A National Academy of Sciences panel says no: Sticking to the quality control aspect of the report, professionalization, it says, has the potential to attractreport...

ARHouse: Architectural Insertion App
From The Eponymous Pickle

ARHouse: Architectural Insertion App

A correspondent in the area of augmented reality has sent along a writeup on a newly developed App for delivering 3D architectural models in real spaces with new...

CS Principles and the CS 10k Initiative / GHC13
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

CS Principles and the CS 10k Initiative / GHC13

As the opening keynote here at GHC reminded us, computer science has a supply problem.  The number of people we need to create technology is increasing at a much...

Interaction-Ivrea, Arduino and Intel’s Galileo
From Putting People First

Interaction-Ivrea, Arduino and Intel’s Galileo

Intel’s Arduino-compatible open-source Galileo development board was launched today in Italy at Rome’s Maker Faire. Rightfully so, as the initiative has such deep...

Dancing to silent algorithms
From Putting People First

Dancing to silent algorithms

More and more, we live our lives according to the unknown auspices of machine codes, writes Frank Swain. “Our lives are influenced by technologies not simply as...

Watson Does Research with Recipes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Does Research with Recipes

In MIT Tech Review:  Intelligence for research.  The model of food recipe construction and how it might be applied to other questions. Again, in our own experimentation...

Fast Approaching: Free Innovation and Design MOOC
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fast Approaching: Free Innovation and Design MOOC

Coming October 7!   (Background and Video)       Full Announcement in BrowserFREE University of Cincinnati Innovation ClassLearn from the leaders in design thinking...

Changing Education
From The Eponymous Pickle

Changing Education

Good piece in Cisco blog on how education is changing.   More than just MOOC.   Easy inclusion of video is a big part of this.   Just today had a connection with...

Spirit of Innovation Challenge
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Spirit of Innovation Challenge

A new competitive event for students via this announcement from the CSTA mailing list. >The Spirit of Innovation Challenge is an excellent way to help your students...

On Anonymous
From Schneier on Security

On Anonymous

Gabriella Coleman has published an interesting analysis of the hacker group Anonymous: Abstract: Since 2010, digital direct action, including leaks, hacking and...

From Computational Complexity

Celebrating Maths in Oxford

This week I'm in Oxford for the opening of the new Andrew Wiles Mathematical Institute building and the Clay Research Conference including on workshop on New....

Monsanto Bets a  $ Billion on Big Data Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Monsanto Bets a $ Billion on Big Data Analytics

In Computerworld:    The connections to micro weather forecasting and insurance are particularly interesting.  This is another example of the large investments"...

An Exciting First Day at GHC13
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

An Exciting First Day at GHC13

Today was our first full day in Minneapolis for this year's edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.  It's so nice to live the conferencecheck...

Some Advice on Entrepreneurship from the AH meeting
From My Biased Coin

Some Advice on Entrepreneurship from the AH meeting

At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table (see past post), there was various advice, some of it contradictory, for professor-types interested in startingAMPLab...

Google Glass Alternative in Japan
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Glass Alternative in Japan

And yet more in the world of wearable devices, this from Japan: At least in its prototype this looks fairly clunky ...." ... This week at Ceatec, a technology trade...

Intel Wearables
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Wearables

Even Intel is doing wearables.  On Intel's New Devices Group:  Did not realize they were a player until I saw this:  " ... When most people think about the future...

Future of Mobility
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Mobility

In the Cisco Blog:  Is it an disappearing act?   I am inclined to think it will, like the phone, still be visible and mostly selective for some time.  I do like...

Crowdsourcing Maps?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowdsourcing Maps?

Waze, now part of Google maps,  also made me thing of this, at least in outsourcing the metadata about the maps.  Can maps be crowdsourced?

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Stealing Strategies

How constructive are strategy stealing proofs? David Gale was a famous mathematician and economist, who passed away just over five years ago. I had the honor of...
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