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Interesting Links 21 February 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 21 February 2011

I spent several days in New York City as part of the program committee for CSTA

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

? Is GNOME Open-By-Rule?

Dave Neary has kindly agreed to supply data for an Open-By-Rule evaluation of the GNOME Project, which develops and maintains one of the two open source graphic...

From Computational Complexity

CCC 2011 papers- you heard it here first

The complexity papers for CCC 2011 are posted HERE. (They might not be at the official CCC site yet; however, I have permission to post here.) Kudos to Omer....

New in Electronic Shelf Labels
From The Eponymous Pickle

New in Electronic Shelf Labels

The Venture Lab reports on funding work they are doing with an Electronic Shelf Label  (ESL) startup called Tagnetics.   I had worked with the predecessor of this...

Dan Ariely in Praise of the Handshake
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dan Ariely in Praise of the Handshake

Good piece by Dan Ariely formerly posted  in the HBR.  The implications of contracts versus handshakes.

Bias Against Creatives
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bias Against Creatives

Is there a bias against the quirkily creative, diversity in thinking,  innovation because it does not fit into the enterprise narrative?   I have seen it. More....

Skill Sets for Information Worker
From The Eponymous Pickle

Skill Sets for Information Worker

In Information Management: An evolving set of skills for the information worker. In today

Hummingbirds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hummingbirds

A fully operational, hummingbird-like operational aircraft.:  " ... The hand-made prototype aircraft has a wingspan of 16 centimeters (6.5 inches) tip-to-tip and...

CCC Sponsors
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Sponsors

As we’ve blogged in this space before, the CCC has sponsored a series of “research visions” sessions at computing research conferences over the past year — hoping...

Comparing Watson the the Human Brain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Comparing Watson the the Human Brain

Short, but mostly non technical CW article on the Jeopardy-Watson IBM supercomputer, comparing at least its organizational and logical size to the human brain.  ...

links for 2011-02-19
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-02-19

ForgeRock Shines on Sun's Legacy Identity – InternetNews.com Lovely overview of ForgeRock's first year in this interview with me from last week. (tags: ForgeRock...

Book: Make It So
From Putting People First

Book: Make It So

Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction A book in progress by Nathan Shedroff & Chris Noessel Publisher: Rosenfeld Media Anticipated publication...

Revealing all the Ingredients
From The Eponymous Pickle

Revealing all the Ingredients

More examples of increasingly providing more detailed information about products:Clorox Reveals Chemicals You've Been Dumping on Your Floors, Counters, Commodes...

Friday Squid Blogging: Research into Squid Hearing
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Research into Squid Hearing

Interesting: Squid can hear, scientists have confirmed. But they don't detect the changes in pressure associated with sound waves, like we do. They have another...

Biometric Wallet
From Schneier on Security

Biometric Wallet

Not an electronic wallet, a physical one: Virtually indestructible, the dunhill Biometric Wallet will open only with touch of your fingerprint. It can be linked...

Making Fan Pages More Effective
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Fan Pages More Effective

Jan Ochs on setting up a Facebook fan page and making it more effective.  Useful ideas.

What Does Watson Mean?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What Does Watson Mean?

Researchers at and working with IBM have created a computer and software that played and beat the best human players of the TV game show Jeopardy. This is an event...

? Microsoft Bans Its Own License
From Wild WebMink

? Microsoft Bans Its Own License

The rules for Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace appear to mean that even Microsoft’s own open source license – the Microsoft Reciprocal License – is banned....

Kraft Advanced in-store Kiosks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kraft Advanced in-store Kiosks

I have not seen much about advanced kiosks of late.  We experimented with them in labs and stores.  The additional capability of having a kiosk or display 'look...

Media in the Drivers Seat
From The Eponymous Pickle

Media in the Drivers Seat

In Adage ... while platforms can impress people, get them looking, content has always been king: Call It a Comeback: Media to Thrive in World of New Devices, Technologies...
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