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Perceiving the Complex  World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Perceiving the Complex World

I met Sumon Sadhu, the Director of Intelligence for Quid today.   Augmenting Our Ability to Perceive this Complex World .. "   We had been trying similar things...

Feeling vs. Reality of Security in Sparrows
From Schneier on Security

Feeling vs. Reality of Security in Sparrows

Sparrows have fewer surviving offspring if they feel insecure, regardless of whether they actually are insecure. Liana Y. Zanette, Aija F. White, Marek C. Allen...

Mosaic Report: Synergies Between CS, Social Sciences
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Mosaic Report: Synergies Between CS, Social Sciences

Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) released a new report –

Yet More Fear-Mongering from the DHS
From Schneier on Security

Yet More Fear-Mongering from the DHS

Al Qaeda is sewing bombs into people. Actually, not really. This is an "aspirational" terrorist threat, which basically means that someone mentioned it whilelot...

Creating Engineers One Student At A Time
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Creating Engineers One Student At A Time

Last weekend I visited the Maine State Championship for FIRST Lego League  which is run by a group of volunteers in an organization called Maine Robotics. They...

Crowd Designed Episodic Game Development
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowd Designed Episodic Game Development

Bold, Curious idea. But is it any more than just voting on minor elements of game design? I would think that a genetic oriented design based on usage would be...

From Computational Complexity

Solution to the reciprocals problem

In my last blog I asked you to look at this problem, try to solve it, and tell me if you think it is too hard for a HS competition. (I meant to post this on WED...

Innovation Boom
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Boom

Look for the coming innovation boom.  I have personally seen quite a few good ideas recently.

Women to dominate tech
From Putting People First

Women to dominate tech

Chip maker and technology group Intel says that women are emerging as the dominant users of technology and if it continues to enhance its ease of use, the fairer...

Philosophy of interaction
From Putting People First

Philosophy of interaction

Chapter eleven of the interaction-design.org resource is now available in preview. It was written by Dag Svanaes, Professor at the Department of Computer and Information...

Assessing Terrorist Threats to Commercial Aviation
From Schneier on Security

Assessing Terrorist Threats to Commercial Aviation

This article on airplane security says many of the same things I've been saying for years: Given the breadth and complexity of threats to commercial aviation,Wired...

NSF: Slight Increase in Ph.D.s in the Computer Sciences;CS Experienced
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF: Slight Increase in Ph.D.s in the Computer Sciences;CS Experienced

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is out with a brief overview of the

Iranians Capture U.S. Drone
From Schneier on Security

Iranians Capture U.S. Drone

Iran has captured a U.S. surveillance drone. No one is sure how it happened. Looking at the pictures of the drone, it wasn't shot down and it didn't crash. The...

Year Up Visits the MTC
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Year Up Visits the MTC

Last Friday the Microsoft Technology Center in Waltham MA was pleased to again host a group from Year Up Rhode Island. I again gave a career talk. Unlike last time...

The Intelligent Social Dashboard
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Intelligent Social Dashboard

Addresses the sharepocalypse.    I am confused, both before and after the private introduction of 'Bottlenose', but it may be worth examination: "  It's hard enough...

P&G Personalized Style
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Personalized Style

Personalized Style site:P&G Beauty & Grooming announced the launch of StyleUnited (www.styleunited.com), the first truly personalized site that brings beauty and...

Exploring Your Blindspot
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exploring Your Blindspot

A free E-Book.  Well, more like a pamphlet.   About human vision blind spots.  This is a frequent topic in psych classes.   We do not see everything in front of...

Scavenger Hunts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Scavenger Hunts

Scavenger hunts as a brand tactic.  Gamifying as engagement.  Some interesting examples are given to increase brand engagement.

Dumbest Camera Ban Ever
From Schneier on Security

Dumbest Camera Ban Ever

In London: While photography bans are pretty common, the station has decided to only ban DSLRs due to "their combination of high quality sensor and high resolution"...

National Models of CS Education
From Computer Science Teachers Association

National Models of CS Education

While in Costa Rica running an Alice workshop at the Foundacion Omar Dengo (see my earlier blog posting), Alberto J. Canas came to the foundation to give a talk...
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