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From Computational Complexity

ACM/IEEE Curriculum 2013

[STOC 2012 Early Registration Deadline Thursday] On a roughly ten-year cycle, the ACM and IEEE Computer Society get together to create a list of core topics that...

Managing a Portfolio of Innovations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Managing a Portfolio of Innovations

From Forrester: We also worked on a closely related project.  how do you get the right information, especially about the technical risk involved, to the decision...

How Information Warfare Changes Warfare
From Schneier on Security

How Information Warfare Changes Warfare

Really interesting paper on the moral and ethical implications of cyberwar, and the use of information technology in war (drones, for example): "Information Warfare...

Interesting Links 16 April 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 16 April 2012

Later this week I head out to Redmond Washington to take part in the US finals of the Imagine Cup. We have 22 teams coming out there for the event. Twenty one of...

Beware The
From Wild WebMink

Beware The

As wave after wave of privacy news arrives, it’s easy to believe that public postings on social media sites are the problem. But I believe we are facing an issue...

Keeping it real
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Keeping it real

Lee Kolbert wrote a blog post (Dear Will Richardson ) that I see as a real call to action for those of us who promote ourselves as experts working to help teachers...

Retail Work Force Dropping
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retail Work Force Dropping

In the Atlantic: Why the future of retail doesn't need workers. Partially agree. It still needs workers, just a reapportionment of them. New skills. More innovation...

Terry Jones on Breakthrough Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Terry Jones on Breakthrough Innovation

A keynote presentation on regarding breaking through corporate organizational barriers to innovation.

Global Leadership Lessons from Unilever
From The Eponymous Pickle

Global Leadership Lessons from Unilever

Global leadership lessons from Unilever:" ... Kruythoff was appointed president of Unilever's North American cluster in September 2011. Based in the United States...

Computational Biology,
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Computational Biology,

This week’s Science magazine

Global Mink
From Wild WebMink

Global Mink

My new travel and photo journal, The Global Mink, is already getting plenty of traffic. One lesson I learned long ago is to always publish anything you care about...

I Always Wanted A Portico
From Wild WebMink

I Always Wanted A Portico

I Always Wanted A Portico, originally uploaded by webmink. This house in Edinburgh has a grand classical portico – on the roof of the house next door! Never let...

Recording Brain Waves at the Supermarket
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recording Brain Waves at the Supermarket

Stephen Sands of Sands Research gives a talk at a recent conference: " ... Dr. Stephen Sands focused his presentation on recording brain waves at the super market...

Data, Algorithms, and People
From The Noisy Channel

Data, Algorithms, and People

One of the highlights of the recent Data 2.0 Summit was a panel featuring: Alexander Gray,

Augmented Reality Daily
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality Daily

Just noted,  an aggregation of augmented reality news items.  A client just reminded me of this topic, so you will see more mentions of it.  How can it effectively...

World Bank Opens Access
From The Eponymous Pickle

World Bank Opens Access

I acted as a judge for some World Bank investments, so this announcement is interesting.   A good direction for this kid of information.  Any structured or unstructured...

Interactive eBook apps: the reinvention of reading and interactivity
From Putting People First

Interactive eBook apps: the reinvention of reading and interactivity

Avi Itzkovitch argues that the experience of interactive eBooks should not be confined to animations based on touch-and-response interaction, or merely flipping...

Panel #3: Securing Mobile Devices (Panel Summary)
From CERIAS Blog

Panel #3: Securing Mobile Devices (Panel Summary)

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Panel Members: Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue David Keppler, MITRE Jeremy Rasmussen, CACI Panel summary by Robert Winkworth. The panel was...

Panel #2: Big Data Analytics (Panel Summary)
From CERIAS Blog

Panel #2: Big Data Analytics (Panel Summary)

Tuesday April 3, 2012 Panel Members: William S. Cleveland, Purdue University Marc Brooks, MITRE Corporation Jamie Van Randwyk, Sandia National Laboratories Alok...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fiction
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fiction

Great short story in Nature. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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