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Is iPhone Security Really this Good?
From Schneier on Security

Is iPhone Security Really this Good?

Simson Garfinkel writes that the iPhone has such good security that the police can't use it for forensics anymore: Technologies the company has adopted protect...

Day of the "Tech" Girl
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Day of the "Tech" Girl

October 11, 2012 is the first ever International Day of the Girl Child. The United Nations set this date aside to recognize that empowerment of and investment in...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Cheating Or Mastering?

An (un)intended consequence of on-line learning? src Sebastian Thrun is a co-founder of Udacity, one of the several new companies that are involved in on-line learning...

iPhone Rumors from RecordedFuture
From The Eponymous Pickle

iPhone Rumors from RecordedFuture

Chris Holden, of RecordedFuture, the forward looking search engine that semantically interprets future mentions of information on public and private webs, sends...

“Health IT for You”
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

“Health IT for You”

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) — which in fall 2009 launched the Strategic...

Highlights: “What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?”
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Highlights: “What Makes Paris Look Like Paris?”

We all identify cities by certain attributes, such as building architecture, street signage, even the lamp posts and parking meters dotting the sidewalks. Now there’s...

From Computational Complexity

Fellow blogger Abie Flaxma named Top Innovator!

(Guest post from William Heisel, Assistant Director for External Relations, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, 2301 5th Avenue...

Mobile Telepresence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Telepresence

A slick looking idea that combines a robotic base with the telepresence idea. How practical is unclear.  We examined a warehouse tracking idea that used Segways...

Tablets and Service Flexibility
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tablets and Service Flexibility

Obvious feature. Having a mobile device with a larger screen that's easy to show and  to the workplace,  makes selling and service easier to do.  It also makes...

Augmented Reality Contact Lenses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality Contact Lenses

Taking the idea of augmented vision away from glasses and into the contact lens.  In the Financial Post.   " ... Innovega is developing a contact lens called the...

Help Cryptanalyze Gauss
From Schneier on Security

Help Cryptanalyze Gauss

Kaspersky is looking for help decrypting the Gauss payload.

The first Informal Economy Symposium in Barcelona – October 12, 2012
From Putting People First

The first Informal Economy Symposium in Barcelona – October 12, 2012

HOW WILL the informal economy impact the global business landscape? The landscape of the Informal Economy is vast – from street vending to P2P networks, from piracy...

Matt Lease: Recent Adventures in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
From The Noisy Channel

Matt Lease: Recent Adventures in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation

Today we had the pleasure of hosting UT-Austin professor Matt Lease at LinkedIn to give a talk on his “Recent Adventures in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation“...

Dancing on the Edge of Truth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dancing on the Edge of Truth

David Carr in the NYT:   On recent plagiarism events.   As 'journalists' we all aggregate, combine, co-create and sit on the work of those that have come before...

Interesting Links 20 August 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 20 August 2012

Back from vacation and trying to catch up with things. I had over 450 unread email messages in spite of doing some triage over the vacation so if I haven’t gotten...

Pricing Strategy in a Recession
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pricing Strategy in a Recession

An Interesting Article on P&G's Pricing Strategy and options in a post recessionary period.    " ... The Wall Street Journal has reported that Procter & Gamble...

Passive Sensor That Sees Through Walls
From Schneier on Security

Passive Sensor That Sees Through Walls

A new technology uses the radiation given off by wi-fi devices to sense the positions of people through a one-foot-thick brick wall.

The Promise Behind Khan's Computer Science Offerings
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

The Promise Behind Khan's Computer Science Offerings

I haven't tried them yet.  I thought it would be interesting to reflect on the latest addition to Khan Academy before I actually did the tutorials, and then see...

Outsourcing Services Expand
From The Eponymous Pickle

Outsourcing Services Expand

Slide show from a Gartner report on the expansion of the need for outsourcing services.  I have also noted this in my own personal experience.The needs for services...

Mobilizing the Field Force
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobilizing the Field Force

A topic that I have had to think about recently.   Its naturally being done for issues of research, compliance and enhanced understanding of the consumer and their...
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