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RStudio for R
From The Eponymous Pickle

RStudio for R

RStudio: A new IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that looks to make coding easier for the open source statistics language R.  Much more here.

Pickpockets are a Dying Breed
From Schneier on Security

Pickpockets are a Dying Breed

Pickpockets in America are dying out. This is the bit I found interesting: And perhaps most important, the centuries-old apprenticeship system underpinning organized...

The Body As Mouse
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

The Body As Mouse

Hopefully you have heard of the Kinect for Xbox 360 by now. Perhaps you even have one. Millions of them have been sold and it has really started to change how we...

? Open Source Procurement: Subscriptions
From Wild WebMink

? Open Source Procurement: Subscriptions

When you procure proprietary software, you buy a right-to-use license and then a support agreement. But when you buy open source, you already have the right-to-use...

Is Social Networking in Business a Revolution?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is Social Networking in Business a Revolution?

Social networking in the enterprise.  What exactly is its value there?  Is it way to improve productivity via more transparent communications.  Or is a waste of...

Comparing ShopSavvy and RedLaser Barcode Readers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Comparing ShopSavvy and RedLaser Barcode Readers

I just received an update for the ShopSavvy barcode reader for my IPhone 4 Smartphone.  I was able to do a quick comparison with the RedLaser barcode reader on...

From Computational Complexity

A good article on how science is publicized gets the science wrong

(Guest Post by John Rogers) I have just been reading the recently published book "Seeing Further". Edited by Bill Bryson, it contains essays commissioned for...

Unusual Uses of QR Codes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unusual Uses of QR Codes

In the AisleBuyer Blog: Another Type of Barcode: QR Codes and Their Unusual Uses  Also see more about what AisleBuyer does.  " ... Meet the World

Streetview from a Tricycle
From The Eponymous Pickle

Streetview from a Tricycle

Google uses Tricycles, albeit very unusual ones,  to get a streetview in parks and footpaths.  I like the experience being gathered by gathering data from human...

Great Canadian Appathon
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Great Canadian Appathon

Carleton's Game Development Club is one of six host schools for the upcoming Great Canadian Appathon:The Great Canadian Appathon is a chance for post-secondarysoftware...

NIST SHA-3 News
From Schneier on Security

NIST SHA-3 News

NIST has finally published its rationale for selecting the five finalists.

? Corporate Fictions
From Wild WebMink

? Corporate Fictions

BSA: Open standards will ‘increase e-government costs’ I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised by this, but I am shocked at just how blatantly disdainful BSA are of...

Register Now for CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Register Now for CSTA's Annual CS&IT Conference 2011

You are cordially invited to attend the 11h annual Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium at Columbia University Faculty House in New York, NY! July...

? Is Mozilla Open-By-Rule?
From Wild WebMink

? Is Mozilla Open-By-Rule?

Host to the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client among many other projects, the Mozilla Foundation is one of the largest and most significant open source...

Debate on Patent Reform
From The Eponymous Pickle

Debate on Patent Reform

The debate on US patent reform will begin in the Senate.  My own limited interaction with Patents says we need it.  CW Article.

Congressman Rush Holt beats Watson at Jeopardy!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Congressman Rush Holt beats Watson at Jeopardy!

Congressman Rush Holt of New Jersey – the only physicist in Congress, one of the staunchest Congressional supporters of science, recipient of this year’s Philip...

Discussing ethnography at University College London
From Putting People First

Discussing ethnography at University College London

Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be giving a talk tomorrow at 6 pm, as a part of the Digital Anthropology MSc course at University College London (UCL)...

Buyology Inc's New Website
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buyology Inc's New Website

I see that neuromarketing company: BuyologyInc has a new website.  I have done consulting work with them in the past.  Much better done and more informative site than...

Moonlighting Within the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Moonlighting Within the Enterprise

Liked this NYT article: Moonlighting Within Microsoft, in Pursuit of New Apps  Admittedly it would work best in the technical enterprise, where you can slice off...

Gestural Interfaces on the Street
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gestural Interfaces on the Street

An example of gestural interactivity with a screen in store.  We examined early attempts at this kind of interaction on the store shelf.  This appears to be increasing...
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