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? Learning Opportunities
From Wild WebMink

? Learning Opportunities

On WebM again: freedom, quality, patents The arguments made against WebM video by H.264 advocates turn out to be at best wildly exaggerated and at worst baseless...

Kip Hawley Comments on the Domodedovo Airport Bombing
From Schneier on Security

Kip Hawley Comments on the Domodedovo Airport Bombing

This is the first piece of writing I've seen from Kip Hawley since he left the TSA in 2009. It's mostly generalities and platitudes.

Prototypes from Microsoft Education Labs
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Prototypes from Microsoft Education Labs

Microsoft Education Labs is a sort of technology playground for the Microsoft Education Products group. They have a blog and other pages to share ideas and have...

Wikipedia Now 10 Years Old, and it Works
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wikipedia Now 10 Years Old, and it Works

Everyone has problems with the Wikipedia, now over ten years old, but it does work and it is often the place to go first for encyclopedia style information. ...

USACM Comments on Proposed Web Accessibility Rules
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

USACM Comments on Proposed Web Accessibility Rules

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990, and did not address the Internet. However, the Department of Justice established, most notably through...

? The Open-By-Rule Governance Benchmark
From Wild WebMink

? The Open-By-Rule Governance Benchmark

With Oracle’s OpenJDK Project about to announce new community governance, many people have asked what I look for in good open source project and community governance...

The Shelf Life of Great Ideas
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Shelf Life of Great Ideas

In VentureBeat/Entrepreneur Corner: Some interesting startup lessons and ideas.  These are the kinds of ideas that aim to set the stage, and are to a large degree...

Me on Color-Coded Terrorist Threat Levels
From Schneier on Security

Me on Color-Coded Terrorist Threat Levels

I wrote an op-ed for CNN.com on the demise of the color-coded terrorist theat level system. It's nothing I haven't said before, so I won't reprint it here. The...

? Rebooting Procurement
From Wild WebMink

? Rebooting Procurement

European Commission consults on the modernisation of the European Public Procurement Market The European Commission’s consultation is in progress until April. It...

? Sirius News
From Wild WebMink

? Sirius News

When we started last year, it was thrilling to see how many companies responded when we asked who would be interested in reselling ForgeRock subscriptions, consulting...

New encyclopedia on interactive design, usability and user experience
From Putting People First

New encyclopedia on interactive design, usability and user experience

The people behind Interaction-Design.org introduced a new type of top-quality and free encyclopedia dealing with Interactive Design, Usability, and User Experience...

Recursive Loops
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Recursive Loops

Last week I wrote about loops and how some students seem to have trouble with them. On the link to it from Facebook one friend of mine asked

Social Network Connector from IBM
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Network Connector from IBM

I have talked to IBM several times about their development of social connectivity software.  What I saw, developed for internal use, was impressive.  Now they have...

WISE Steps to Success a Big Success
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

WISE Steps to Success a Big Success

Last Wednesday CU-WISE held a professional development event called WISE Steps to Success for a second year.  It's one of our flagship events, and was designedsee...

Thinking About Summer Camps
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Thinking About Summer Camps

Now that the new year has arrived, it is time to start looking forward to the summer and computer camps. Last year, I ran my first computer camp for twenty-two...

Not Even Eventually Consistent
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Not Even Eventually Consistent

Many databases engines ensure consistency: at any given time, the database state is logically consistent. For example, even if you receive purchase requests by...

From Computational Complexity

Is Cheminformatics the new Bioinformatics? (Guest Post by Aaron Sterling)

Chemoinformatics for Computer Scientists Guest Post by Aaron Sterling I recently completed a review of Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms (HCA)here...

Need Help?  Expert Help Available.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Need Help? Expert Help Available.

I wanted to remind my readers that I am a consultant. I have over thirty years of experience with major companies and the US government. I have saved companies...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 31
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 31

January 31 Event: The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation will host an event on the bandwidth cost of online piracy. noon, 1101 K Street NW February...

? New Moves
From Wild WebMink

? New Moves

Jenkins! By a massive margin (214 to 14) the Hudson community has decided to rename itself Jenkins and rehost on independent resources. I just hope Oracle decides...
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