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Creating a CS Presence at My School
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Creating a CS Presence at My School

When I started work at North Gwinnett High School a year and half ago, I was asked to teach two computer science courses: AP Computer Science and Computing in the...

Buyology is Forbes #71
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buyology is Forbes #71

I see that a company I have worked with,  Buyology Inc, is in Forbes as one of the 100 most promising companies.   It is at #71.  " ... Founded in 2008, this marketing...

The End (of the Semester) is Nigh
From My Biased Coin

The End (of the Semester) is Nigh

If you've missed it (which probably means you're not a theorist and/or a blog-reader), you should check out the (entertaining) controversies of the last week or...

Intelligent Solutions for Everyday Objects
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intelligent Solutions for Everyday Objects

A continuation of work by Microsoft on embedded intelligence for everyday objects ...

More Market Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Market Apps

Yet another supermarket App, here at Giant Eagle.  Nothing very new.  The usual assortment of promotions, information, coupons and shopping list.  They are easy...

Gaming and the Science of Expertise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gaming and the Science of Expertise

In the SciAM Blog: How a game is being used to study the science of the development of expertise.  Collaboration, multitasking and goal achievement.

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Robot
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Robot

It crawls on land.

I Received an Honorary Doctorate
From Schneier on Security

I Received an Honorary Doctorate

Last weekend, I received an honorary PhD from the University of Westminster, in London. I have had mixed feelings about this since I was asked early this year....

NSF Holds Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) Webinar
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Holds Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) Webinar

Earlier this afternoon,

Hacking Printers and Setting Them on Fire
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Printers and Setting Them on Fire

It's the kind of research result that screams hype, but online attacks that have physical-world consequences are fundamentally a different sort of threat. I suspect...

FourSquare Check-ins
From The Eponymous Pickle

FourSquare Check-ins

Some interesting statistics about Foursquare check ins at major retailers and fast food.  Interesting that so many people are still checking in, but the percentage...

Welcome to the post-digital world
From Putting People First

Welcome to the post-digital world

Simon Jenkins writes in The Guardian that the “smart money is moving from online towards ‘live experience’.” “The new magnetism of congregation seems universal....

From Computational Complexity

Analysis of Boolean Functions blog/book (Guest post by Ryan O'Donnell)

(Guest post by Ryan O'Donnell) Lance and Bill have graciously let me plug my recently begun book/blog project, analysis of boolean functions. I am writingBoolean...

Who Knew Science and Dance Could Be So Closely Related?
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Who Knew Science and Dance Could Be So Closely Related?

So often we think of the arts and science as opposites.  Many who are talented in one feel hopelessly lost in the other.  But the two are more related than it might...

Coke Embraces QR Codes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coke Embraces QR Codes

Yet another example of a company using QR codes in packaging and using them for a specific campaign.  As more consumers learn to use them, this will evolve further...

P&G and Teva Consumer Healthcare Partnership
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G and Teva Consumer Healthcare Partnership

I know I am late to this particular piece of information about Teva and P&G, but I am in the process of looking at it in more detail.  Also Teva's press release...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

An interesting piece about the future of human computing in the print edition of The Economist

Walls as Security Theater
From Schneier on Security

Walls as Security Theater

Interesting essay on walls and their effects: Walls, then, are built not for security, but for a sense of security. The distinction is important, as those whoas...

Using Business Analytics to Run the Global Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Business Analytics to Run the Global Enterprise

P&G has always been a numbers and modeling company, though there have been some attempts in recent years to move it sharply into a design direction.  I think there...

Online Reading Trends
From The Eponymous Pickle

Online Reading Trends

New trends in online reading.   I find myself staging my technical reading more.  On a tablet I do more moving back and forth in the text when doing technical reading...
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