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One of the Greatest Perks of Teaching
From Computer Science Teachers Association

One of the Greatest Perks of Teaching

I have always thought that one of the greatest perks of teaching is being able to revise and start over again. This seems to energize me and give me a new outlook...

Obama highlights computer science
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Obama highlights computer science

In his major address on immigration policy on July 1, President Barack Obama noted: “And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Robots
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Robots

Two of them; one was blogged about last year.

More videos from The Web And Beyond
From Putting People First

More videos from The Web And Beyond


Facebook Reco Engine
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Reco Engine

ReadwriteWeb posts about the newly released Facebook recommendation engine. Have not looked at it yet. I have never had good experience with reco engines. They...

Virtual Reality You Can Touch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Reality You Can Touch

From CACM: Continuing developments in the science of haptics: Virtual Reality You Can Reach Out and TouchA team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported...

Intel launches new interaction and experience research division
From Putting People First

Intel launches new interaction and experience research division

At the Intel Labs’ annual Research at Intel media event, Intel Corporation Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner announced a new research division, called Interaction...

Holistic Framework for Knowledge Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Holistic Framework for Knowledge Management

An interesting paper recently discovered. Often an issue for the enterprise.-

Smart meters not smart enough for consumers
From Putting People First

Smart meters not smart enough for consumers

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy on Tuesday released results of a survey finding that energy use feedback tools are more important than smart...

Team USA Heads to Poland to Compete in the Imagine Cup
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Team USA Heads to Poland to Compete in the Imagine Cup

Well the USA may be out of the World Cup but that

Secret Stash
From Schneier on Security

Secret Stash

Hiding objects in everyday objects.

From Computational Complexity

Theory Happenings

FOCS accepts, abstracts and PDFs. The conference itself will be held October 23-26 in Las Vegas. There is a proposed TCS version of Math Overflow, a Q&A site to...

Reflection on ISTE 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Reflection on ISTE 2010

Well I

Glen Cove conference on strategic design and public policy
From Putting People First

Glen Cove conference on strategic design and public policy

Ever keen to expand the boundaries of their practices, design professionals have been moving in the direction of public policy for some years, writes Lucy Kimbell...

Career Outlook for CS Students
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Career Outlook for CS Students

The CACM web site has an interesting interview with Joel Adams (Joel Adams Discusses the Career Outlook for CS Students) Joel Adams

Wharton Studies World Cup Access
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wharton Studies World Cup Access

Wharton WIMI studies how fans access the World Cup via ESPN: " ... ESPN, which is televising the World Cup, is using the soccer tournament as a living laboratory...

Qualcomm, Mattel Push Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Qualcomm, Mattel Push Augmented Reality

It makes sense for a toy manufacturer to look at this. it is well known that some smartphone game Apps are very big profit makers for well known toy companies....

Vigilant Citizens: Then vs. Now
From Schneier on Security

Vigilant Citizens: Then vs. Now

This is from Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself, published in 1950: Of course, millions of us will go through our lives never seeing a spy or a saboteur...

Temporal Analytics Engine
From The Eponymous Pickle

Temporal Analytics Engine

Wim Van de Velde points me the Recorded Future Site, which I had missed. What they call a temporal analytics engine. Not descriptive enough as a title. Just exploring...

Cryptography Failure Story
From Schneier on Security

Cryptography Failure Story

By Russian spies: Ricci said the steganographic program was activated by pressing control-alt-E and then typing in a 27-character password, which the FBI found...
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