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Name Wizard is Back
From The Eponymous Pickle

Name Wizard is Back

I was reminded of Mark Wattenberg's Name Voyager.   Has not been around for a while.   Perhaps due to some licensing issue?   The site also contains other interesting...

Lauren Ipsum Goes to Seven Lucky Girls
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Lauren Ipsum Goes to Seven Lucky Girls

Remember that computer science storybook I mentioned recently? It turns out that the authors of Lauren Ipsum have a Get One, Give One program.  I had written to...

Using Social Media
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Social Media

McKinsey chimes in on how to use and demystify social media.  Well done.

New design practices for touch-free interactions
From Putting People First

New design practices for touch-free interactions

Brian Pag

Do you really want your bank following you around all day?
From Putting People First

Do you really want your bank following you around all day?

A conversation with senior Wells Fargo execs reveals a bank trying to use the Internet, social media and mobile technology to worm its way deeper and deeper into...

Friday Squid Blogging: New Book on Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: New Book on Squid

Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid. And a review. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories...

Multiple Location Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Multiple Location Augmented Reality

Augmented reality to provide 3D remote interaction: "Microsoft is developing an augmented reality system that allows users in different locations to work together...

On Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Big Data

Paul Hofmann, formerly of SAP, now with Saffron Technologies has a presentation on Big Data.  Good short overview with examples that is worth reviewing.

Learning Should Be Fun
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Learning Should Be Fun

Years ago I was sitting the the front of church and via a fluke of acoustics I heard a little girl in the back of the church tell someone

People-powered health co-production catalogue
From Putting People First

People-powered health co-production catalogue

The people at Nesta, the UK innovation charity, think that co-production is potentially transformative and its power comes from re-framing the problem and re-establishing...

User experience and neuroscience
From Putting People First

User experience and neuroscience

Harvard neuroscience researchers have just confirmed what many of us have suspected all along: social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are...

High Performance Computing Clusters
From The Eponymous Pickle

High Performance Computing Clusters

Was just introduced to HPCC Systems.  As an open source solution to a 'Big Data' problem to support a large scale enterprise simulation.  Well worth a look for...

Neurologist: Mobile technology is literally changing the way we think
From Putting People First

Neurologist: Mobile technology is literally changing the way we think

Leading neurologist Susan Greenfield tells Nokia Conversations that we need a new framework to make sense of our

Patterns in Everyday Numbers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Patterns in Everyday Numbers

Cool numbers.   A site to investigate the patterns in everyday numbers.The kind of site that would be good to show to children to get them interested in the patterns...

Camera Phone Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Camera Phone Tech

A recent project has me looking at the value and limitations of camera phone technology.  So it was good to see this instructive article on the subject in ComputerWorld...

BuildSys 2012 Calling for Papers: Sensors, Buildings, Energy
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

BuildSys 2012 Calling for Papers: Sensors, Buildings, Energy

The organizers of

Smart Phone Privacy App
From Schneier on Security

Smart Phone Privacy App

MobileScope looks like a great tool for monitoring and controlling what information third parties get from your smart phone apps: We built MobileScope as a proof...

Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring

Received this from the CSTA Mailing list yesterday and thought it worth sharing. Do you know someone who is doing an outstanding job of mentoring or a mentoring...

Faster Pharma
From The Eponymous Pickle

Faster Pharma

Novartis speaks of continuous manufacturing in pharmaceuticals.  " .... the CEO of pharmaceutical giant Novartis, Joseph Jimenez, suggested big changes are in store...

Video Games
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Video Games

Video games are just plain fun! Your students know it, you know it, but so do administrators and colleagues who sometimes think that if you are teaching something...
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