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Keeping Sensitive Information Out of the Hands of Terrorists Through Self-Restraint
From Schneier on Security

Keeping Sensitive Information Out of the Hands of Terrorists Through Self-Restraint

In my latest book (available February), I talk about various mechanisms for societal security: how we as a group protect ourselves from the "dishonest minority"...

Interesting Links Post 31 May 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links Post 31 May 2011

Since yesterday was Memorial Day I posted something just a bit fun and saved my links post for today.  I hope those of you in the US enjoyed a three day weekend...

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From The Noisy Channel

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If you Google [relevance theory], you’ll discover this Wikipedia entry about a theory proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson

Visual Beauty of Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visual Beauty of Machine Learning

From Matthew Hurst's site. I remember seeing similar visuals which represented processes like sorting, also very naturally visual.  Since this is so visual, could...

? Old Vienna Reflected In New Vienna
From Wild WebMink

? Old Vienna Reflected In New Vienna


Tide Brings Loads of Hope
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tide Brings Loads of Hope

Tide's Loads of Hope comes to the tornado strucken area. In Drug Store News, a simple but very useful gesture that follows disaster, by my former employer.

Behavioral Economics for Startups
From The Eponymous Pickle

Behavioral Economics for Startups

Reports Dan Ariely:  Looks to be quite interesting, would love to attend. "August 26-28th, 2011   Introducing Startup-OnomicsStartup-Onomics is about infusing behavioral...

Why Computer Science is Relevant No Matter What You're Teaching
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Why Computer Science is Relevant No Matter What You're Teaching

I had only half an hour to put forward my case. I wanted to convince the educators who attended a special CU-WISE event last week, Discover WISE, that no matter...

Deletion Channel Pointer : Kanoria and Montanari
From My Biased Coin

Deletion Channel Pointer : Kanoria and Montanari

For those half a dozen of us in the world who care about the deletion channel (and perhaps I'm overcounting), I'm a bit late in pointing to the now available extended...

Gigabit Network Case Study
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gigabit Network Case Study

Case study of a Chattanooga network. Impressive work in a two part article.

DoE, With India, Calling for Building Energy Efficiency Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

DoE, With India, Calling for Building Energy Efficiency Research

The U.S. Department of Energy — together with the Government of India — recently established a Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC) “designed...

Lockheed Martin Hack Linked to RSA's SecurID Breach
From Schneier on Security

Lockheed Martin Hack Linked to RSA's SecurID Breach

All I know is what I read in the news.

Aggressive Social Engineering Against Consumers
From Schneier on Security

Aggressive Social Engineering Against Consumers

Cyber criminals are getting aggressive with their social engineering tactics. Val Christopherson said she received a telephone call last Tuesday from a man stating...

XNA and Visual Basic
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

XNA and Visual Basic

I have been playing with Visual Basic and XNA for a few days now. Support has been out for VB and XNA for a little while now but the release of the Windows Phone...

Recommendation Engines for Art
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recommendation Engines for Art

Recommendation has exist for music and books for some time. Now it is starting to be seen for visual art as well. In ReadWriteWeb. " ...  there's been no comparable...

First to Market Products that Failed
From The Eponymous Pickle

First to Market Products that Failed

An instructive list, over many years and technology contexts, of ideas that were clearly groundbreaking, but failed in their first commercial use.  I knew about many...

Sock Monkey Meets Karen Peterson
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Sock Monkey Meets Karen Peterson

Last week Sock Monkey attended the spring meeting for the National Center for Women in Information Technology and had a chance to meet with Karen Peterson of the...

Sock Monkey Meets Karen Peterson
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Sock Monkey Meets Karen Peterson


From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

It’s unusual for computing research to be featured in an editorial in the New York Times, but it happened today:

First Commercial Quantum Computer
From The Eponymous Pickle

First Commercial Quantum Computer

The first commercial quantum computer, from D-Wave, has been sold in a multi year contract to Lockheed Martin.  More in Engadget.   Impressive step towards commercial...
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