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REAL-ID Implementation
From Schneier on Security

REAL-ID Implementation

According to this study, REAL-ID has not only been cheaper to implement than the states estimated, but also helpful in reducing fraud. States are finding that...

2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum

The Innovative Education Forum (IEF) is part of a worldwide program from Microsoft Partners in Learning. The program recognizes innovative educators and schools...

Visualizing Your Professional Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visualizing Your Professional Network

A clever visualization of your Linkedin Network.  Miy network is on the right." ... It's often hard to visualize the connections between your plethora of contacts...

Connected they write
From Putting People First

Connected they write

Raquel Recuero (blog) is an associate professor at the Departments of Applied Linguistics and Social Communication in Universidade Cat

The ABC of behavioural change
From Putting People First

The ABC of behavioural change

Jodie Moule, a psychologist and co-founder & director of Symplicit, an experience design consultancy based in Australia, describes on Johnny Holland what it takes...

Amazon Delivers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Delivers

Mashable reports that Amazon is about to start a grocery delivery service.  Convenient but pricey.

The Passive vs Active in English
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Passive vs Active in English

I don't usually cover language details here in this blog.  When I took writing courses in the enterprise I was taught to carefully avoid the 'passive voice', and...

Industrial Engineering of Business Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

Industrial Engineering of Business Services

The term ' Industrial Engineering' struck me in an Ecommerce Times article. IE is part of my background, and I have seen it applied in many areas, even services...

Hacking Tamper-Evident Devices
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Tamper-Evident Devices

At the Black Hat conference lasts week, Jamie Schwettmann and Eric Michaud presented some great research on hacking tamper-evident seals. Jamie Schwettmann and...

Recorded Future Applications
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recorded Future Applications

Curious about investment and other applications using recorded future? They link to a blog and podcast on the subject that is informative.

Does "Fewer Failures" Translate to "Greater Success"?
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Does "Fewer Failures" Translate to "Greater Success"?

I was watching the local (New jersey) news channel earlier this school year when something caught my attention: "The percentage of failing grades in a NJ school...

Brute-Force Safecracking
From Schneier on Security

Brute-Force Safecracking

This safecracking robot tries every possible combination, one after another: Combination space optimization is the key. By exploiting of the mechanical tolerances...

From Computational Complexity

Why My Kids Trust Wikipedia

Guest post from Annie and Molly Fortnow Our teachers used to tell us not to use Wikipedia because anybody can edit it and therefore it isn't trustworthy. A couple...

Interesting Links 24 January 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 24 January 2011

I have a good bunch of links this week. Actually a wide variety of them. I hope you find some of use to you. Microsoft

Another RockStar at ForgeRock
From Wild WebMink

Another RockStar at ForgeRock

You’ll recall that ForgeRock (where I work) launched the OpenIDM project back in October. One of the key control points in enterprise software is the provisioning...

Foodspotting What You Eat
From The Eponymous Pickle

Foodspotting What You Eat

FoodSpotting: Intriguing idea for Foodies like me.  You take a picture of a plate of food on an IPhone App where you are and add a capsule review.  I have known...

Kitchen Cooking Autonomously?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kitchen Cooking Autonomously?

Well, sort of.   Gorenje's IChef is another example of a kitchen of the future idea we experimented with and examined many examples of.   It fails the same way...

Technology Isolating People
From The Eponymous Pickle

Technology Isolating People

In the Guardian. There is lots of writing lately on how how technologies can increasingly isolate people.  It can bring far apart people together, but also isolate...

links for 2011-01-23
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-01-23

Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android | ZDNet Ed Burnette takes a look at the allegation from a lobbyist that Google is guilty...

Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US
From Putting People First

Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US

Twitter and Facebook don’t connect people
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