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Harvard Innovation Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

Harvard Innovation Lab

Harvard starts a technology lab.   There was an IBM ad some time ago which made fun of having to set aside a place to do innovation.  Certainly it can be done...

Cyber Security Data for Experimentation
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Cyber Security Data for Experimentation

The NSF’s CISE Directorate has issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), calling to attention the outputs

Movie-Plot Threat: Open Airplane Cockpit Doors During Bathroom Breaks
From Schneier on Security

Movie-Plot Threat: Open Airplane Cockpit Doors During Bathroom Breaks

James Fallows has a nice debunking of a movie-plot threat.

We Are the Web
From The Eponymous Pickle

We Are the Web

Are we the web?   In GigaOm.  " ... Not too long ago, Om Malik blogged 

How Microsoft Develops Security Patches
From Schneier on Security

How Microsoft Develops Security Patches

I thought this was an interesting read.

Chiquita Rio Gamification Case Study
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chiquita Rio Gamification Case Study

Met recently with Nancy Koors at Empower and she pointed me to this video case study of the Chiquita Rio gamification example that they created. Note the movie...

Linux and the financial crisis
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Linux and the financial crisis

On December 2007, the New York Stock Exchange adopted Linux. In late August 2008, we saw one of the worse worldwide stock market crash of the last hundred years...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Sam Madden, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), delivered...

links for 2011-08-22
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-08-22

Mark Shuttleworth on patents, tablets and the future of Ubuntu | TechCentral Interesting interview with Mark, who I consider one of the key thinkers of the software...

Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Devices in the Enterprise

Transcript: ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise: Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support ... 

Pseudonymity
From Schneier on Security

Pseudonymity

Long essay on the value of pseudonymity. From the conclusions: Here lies the huge irony in this discussion. Persistent pseudonyms aren't ways to hide who yoube...

Dream. Fit. Passion.
From The Noisy Channel

Dream. Fit. Passion.

A few days ago, our CEO Jeff Weiner led a session at LinkedIn on how to “close” candidates — that is, how to persuade candidates to join your team once you have...

Interesting Links 22 August 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 22 August 2011

No out of the area travel for me last week. It was nice to sleep in my own bed every night. This is not to say that I wasn

Google Effects on Memory
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Effects on Memory

It has been debated now for some time.  It reminds  me of the debate when calculators first became common.  Will we forget how to perform arithmetic functions if...

Contemporary Bayes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Contemporary Bayes

New on a favorite topic: 'The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two...

Airlines Testing Tablets as Flight Bags
From The Eponymous Pickle

Airlines Testing Tablets as Flight Bags

Delta and other are looking at tablets as a means to deliver knowledge to pilots.  More fragile than paper, need to be charged, probably lighter net than a stack...

Machine Learning Development Kits
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning Development Kits

More biologically inspired Intelligence, recently saw this.   Have not looked at it in any detail but the idea of plug in machine learning is something we alsoai...

A focus on qualitative research in France
From Putting People First

A focus on qualitative research in France

In a series of blog posts Rebecca S. Kuchar of Sylver Consulting illustrates the challenges and rewards of orchestrating global and multi-cultural research. A first...

Interesting Links 20 August 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 20 August 2011

No out of the area travel for me last week. It was nice to sleep in my own bed every night. This is not to say that I wasn’t busy. I had some meetings with the@purplespatula...

A Colleague Mentions the Hapax Legomenon
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Colleague Mentions the Hapax Legomenon

The dreaded Hapax Legomenon is mentioned and I have to look it up.  Nothing to do with children's building blogs or Greek Gods.  Its a kind of 'black swan' of literature...
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