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What should the High School CS curriculum look like?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What should the High School CS curriculum look like?

I get asked questions like this a lot

Organizing Your Business for Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Organizing Your Business for Innovation

In Innovation Excellence:  A favorite topic, when added to constructing innovation rich contexts.  " ... Innovation is the process of linking an invention to satisfy...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

An article published in Nature

USB Drives and Wax Seals
From Schneier on Security

USB Drives and Wax Seals

Need some pre-industrial security for your USB drive? How about a wax seal? Neat, but I recommend combining it with encryption for even more security!

From Computational Complexity

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Intel Employee Magazine
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Employee Magazine

IQ by Intel is a Flipboard like design, with bright graphics, using social measures to promote the Intel brand to younger demographics.  More in Adage.

Wearing Health Devices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wearing Health Devices

In Technology Review:  On wearing small health devices.  Small monitors have been around for a long time.  The challenge may be how to deal with the data and the...

Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute
From The Eponymous Pickle

Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute

Byron Sharp, professor at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia, has been a long term correspondent.  My former enterprise is a major sponsor...

Recapping Last Week
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Recapping Last Week

The following is a special contribution to this blog from Mario Berg

Security Vulnerabilities in Airport Full-Body Scanners
From Schneier on Security

Security Vulnerabilities in Airport Full-Body Scanners

According to a report from the DHS Office of Inspector General: Federal investigators "identified vulnerabilities in the screening process" at domestic airports...

International Institute for Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

International Institute for Analytics

Bill Franks has a number of interesting posts at the International Institute for Analytics blog.  Like a recent post on in-memory analytics.  " ...  At IIA, we...

Grading, Correlation vs. Causation
From My Biased Coin

Grading, Correlation vs. Causation

Final grades are finally in, thank goodnees.  With 100+ students, even entering the grades is non-trivial.  Once again, freshman in my undergraduate Algorithms...

NSF, NIH Holding Second Big Data Webinar May 21st
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF, NIH Holding Second Big Data Webinar May 21st

For those who missed last Tuesday’s webinar about the

Please Don
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Please Don

I am a late convert to the idea of computer science education for everyone. Or pretty close to everyone. A lot of people still don

Hadoop Education for Big Data Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hadoop Education for Big Data Analytics

A good view of the need for specialized training and experience for the use of the package Hadoop for Big data problems.  I recently saw an overview of this approach...

Mini-Course 2012: Another Successful Year
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Mini-Course 2012: Another Successful Year

Last week marked the fifth year I've run my mini-course, Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls! This was a special year because of our study, and because it...

Managing Digital Marketing Solutions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing Digital Marketing Solutions

In AdAge:  it is becoming clear that the problem is becoming too big. And Agencies themselves are looking to build out their own solutions.  It is clear though"...

Revolutionizing Trade Strategy: Science and Shopper
From The Eponymous Pickle

Revolutionizing Trade Strategy: Science and Shopper

I recently happened on an article by DemandTec on trade strategy.   Five ways to revolutionize your trade strategy.  A well put set of suggestions that emphasize...

DoE Seeking
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

DoE Seeking

As part of its recently announced SunShot Initiative — “a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy cost competitive with other forms of energy by...

U.S. Exports Terrorism Fears
From Schneier on Security

U.S. Exports Terrorism Fears

To New Zealand: United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has warned the New Zealand Government about the latest terrorist threat known as...
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