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links for 2010-07-18
From Wild WebMink

links for 2010-07-18

Oracle's Support for Open Source and Open Standards Looks like this is the canonical list of which open source projects matter to Oracle. Notable for what's missing...

Brains as Game Controllers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brains as Game Controllers

In the BBC: This idea has been around for some time, but does not appear to have taken hold. Here Emotiv claims to have developed neural game control headsets that...

Frito-Lay to Feature Ergonomic Checkout in its Innovation Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Frito-Lay to Feature Ergonomic Checkout in its Innovation Center

This is new. I had thought there would be some complaints in self checkout, but the you always have to lift the heavy bags charcoal, or 24 packs of drnk out of...

? On the term
From Wild WebMink

? On the term

I’ve been having a number of conversations in e-mail on the subject of open core business models. The problem that keeps coming up is that there are a range of...

Walking Around in Proteins
From The Eponymous Pickle

Walking Around in Proteins

Walking inside your data. I had a conversation with a guy from IBM about this kind of approach. He implemented a data walkaround in Second Life.Virtual Reality...

Google Buys Metaweb
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Buys Metaweb

In GigaOM: Google makes a big semantic acquisiton, buys Metaweb. " ... San Francisco-based Metaweb was founded by the widely admired Thinking Machines founder...

Tableau Momentum Builds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau Momentum Builds

I have now used Tableau Software's easy to use data visualization system for several years for a number of projects. It's a good approach to explore if you plan...

Symbol for the Rupee
From The Eponymous Pickle

Symbol for the Rupee

Mark Perry reports on the development of a symbol for the Indian Rupee, from a competitive market for currency design.

Michael Osofsky on Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Michael Osofsky on Innovation

Just brought to my attention: Michael Osofsky's blog musings on innovation, practice and theory. It is on my read.

More Attendee Reflections on CS&IT
From Computer Science Teachers Association

More Attendee Reflections on CS&IT

This blog piece is posted with the permission of H

Friday Squid Blogging: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Hawaiian Bobtail Squid

Symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and bioluminescent bacteria, with bonus security implications.

Skype's Cryptography Reverse-Engineered
From Schneier on Security

Skype's Cryptography Reverse-Engineered

Someone claims to have reverse-engineered Skype's proprietary encryption protocols, and has published pieces of it. If the crypto is good, this is less of a big...

Google knows your desires before you do
From Putting People First

Google knows your desires before you do

Google attempts to return relevant search results in the blink of an eye. But in future it could go one better, delivering search results to its users even before...

Little Orphan Computer Science
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Little Orphan Computer Science

The never ending debate over where Computer Science fits in the curriculum continues. Mark Guzdial asks why computer science is not in the latest set of STEM standards...

From Computational Complexity

How I Find Homework Problems

What do you get out of this paragraph (from Charlie Stross' The Atrocity Archives via Daniel Lemire) The [Turing] theorem is a hack on discrete number theory that...

Facebook Movie Preview
From My Biased Coin

Facebook Movie Preview

It's nice to see Harvard finally getting some recognition in the mainstream media, with the upcoming Facebook/Zuckerburg movie the Social Network (based on BenThe...

A New Kind of Teacher
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A New Kind of Teacher

Last Saturday, the New York Times Magazine published the fourth installment in its “Smarter Than You Think” series, this one titled “Students, Meet your New Teacher...

Content Strategy questions and answers
From Putting People First

Content Strategy questions and answers

Content strategy is becoming a hot topic (and one I am greatly interested in). Last year, Kristina Halvorson of Brain Traffic published the book Content Strategy...

The NSA's Perfect Citizen
From Schneier on Security

The NSA's Perfect Citizen

In what creepy back room do they come up with these names? The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults...

? OpenSolaris Governance
From Wild WebMink

? OpenSolaris Governance

You may have seen some of the news reporting of the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) meeting that was held last Monday (I am an elected member of the Board). At...
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