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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid's Beard
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid's Beard

It's an acoustic bluegrass band. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

Shiny Packages
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shiny Packages

Dan Ariely on the effect of packaging design on choice.  Good exploration based on eye tracking research.  " ... when making such simple choices, consumers can...

From Computational Complexity

STOC 2012 accepts are posted

STOC 2012 paper accepts are posted here. Travel support for grad students (which I am involved with) is posted here. On a quick glance: I tried counting thehere...

Captchas
From Schneier on Security

Captchas

Funny.

Choosing Relevant KPI's
From The Eponymous Pickle

Choosing Relevant KPI's

A slide show in Information Management that has some useful information.  Though this contains useful information, it is also an example of how the style of information...

The Ups and the Downs
From Computer Science Teachers Association

The Ups and the Downs

Why does it always feel as thought we are moving one step forward and two steps back? After holding an annual summer camp in January (Yes, here in New Zealand...

Activating Brand Advocates
From The Eponymous Pickle

Activating Brand Advocates

In Chief Marketer. Thoughts on how to activate your brand advocates. For years I saw apathy to this idea in the enterprise.  No more.

Dan Lockton on behavioural heuristics
From Putting People First

Dan Lockton on behavioural heuristics

Behavioural change researcher Dan Lockton discusses an approach which has emerged out of some of the ethnographic work he has been doing for the Empower project...

User Interface is the next battlefield in consumer electronics
From Putting People First

User Interface is the next battlefield in consumer electronics

User Interface (UI) is the next battlefield in consumer electronics and, as products mature, the race to differentiate based on the UI will accelerate. Rather than...

Packaging Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Packaging Design

Thoughts on packaging design from a recent conference.  " ... "Packaging is the number one medium to communicate the brand," said Michael Okoroafor, VP global packaging...

Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching

Randy Guthrie wrote a long information packed post about Key Imagine Cup 2012 Dates Approaching in the very near future. If you or your students are entering the...

Class Size Incentives
From My Biased Coin

Class Size Incentives

There's an interesting story in today's Crimson about a possible rise in "limited enrollment" classes at Harvard.  (See this older Crimson article as well.)  There...

Eolas Verdict A Hollow Victory
From Wild WebMink

Eolas Verdict A Hollow Victory

With news breaking that apparently Eolas decade-plus attempt to tax innovation on the internet is finally over, I look at the context and find myself lacking reassurance...

Securing iPads for Exams
From Schneier on Security

Securing iPads for Exams

Interesting blog post about locking down an iPad so students can take exams on them.

Emergence of Whorfian Economists?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emergence of Whorfian Economists?

I have always been intrigued by the Whorfian hypothesis.  The idea that different human languages strongly affect our thinking styles, communication capabilities...

Democratization of Data Science
From The Eponymous Pickle

Democratization of Data Science

As I start a study of the democratization of data, and of the Wolfram Alpha Pro release I also see a very on point post by Stephen Wolfram: Launching a Democratization...

Microsoft Announces New Policy-Focused Internship Program
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Microsoft Announces New Policy-Focused Internship Program

Microsoft

Hello From Texas
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Hello From Texas

You may have noticed I haven

Citation Circles on FSP
From My Biased Coin

Citation Circles on FSP

Sorry I haven't blogged much.  Life's been busy. But here's an interesting post by FemaleScienceProfessor discussing the appearance of "citation circles", people...

Speaking Out
From The Eponymous Pickle

Speaking Out

In the WSJ:   Why people fail to speak up in various contexts.  We examined this in focus group settings.   I see it in myself in very specific group contexts....
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