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GMail Outage
From The Eponymous Pickle

GMail Outage

I experienced the Gmail outage here in NYC yesterday. I agree with several pundits that there was no easy way to tell what was going on. Had to go to a number of...

The architect of experience
From Putting People First

The architect of experience

Paula Wallace, president of the Savannah College of Art and Design, interviews Peter Fossick, who is the coordinator of a new program in service design at the college...

The rise of the super fakes
From Putting People First

The rise of the super fakes

What happens when a large % of your target market wants your brand cachet but is happy with a decent-enough quality fake? Nokia

How mobile is connecting people to what matters
From Putting People First

How mobile is connecting people to what matters

Via Dina Mehta, founder and managing director of Mosoci India, I found out about Progress, a highly interesting new website set up by Nokia and Lonely Planet: “The...

Experientia helps Helsinki reduce carbon emissions
From Putting People First

Experientia helps Helsinki reduce carbon emissions

Helsinki, Finland

Wal-Mart E-Commerce Changes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart E-Commerce Changes

Wal-Mart appears to be expanding and changing their e-commerce operational presence: E-Commerce says: ' ... Wal-Mart is taking a page from Amazon's playbook, partnering...

Assessing Impact in Computing Education
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Assessing Impact in Computing Education

I spend much of my time thinking about reforming computer science education in Los Angeles. My goal is to make computer science courses accessible and engaging...

Hacking Swine Flu
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Swine Flu

Interesting: So how many bits are in this instance of H1N1? The raw number of bits, by my count, is 26,022; the actual number of coding bits approximately 25,054...

ACM Comments on Reach for the Top Education Fund
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

ACM Comments on Reach for the Top Education Fund

The Association for Computing Machinery recently submitted comments (PDF) on the Race to the Top Fund, an Education Department program set up to address some of...

AI a Dangerous Dream?
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI a Dangerous Dream?

Interview with Noel Sharkey. The robotics expert, formerly a player in artificial intelligence, suggests that AI is a dangerous dream. I don't think it is a dream...

ICFP 2009 and Functional Programming in the Real World
From Return 42;

ICFP 2009 and Functional Programming in the Real World

Today the proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on functional programming (ICFP) have been uploaded to the ACM digital library. Next to the...

Matthew Weigman
From Schneier on Security

Matthew Weigman

Fascinating story of a 16-year-old blind phone phreaker. One afternoon, not long after Proulx was swatted, Weigman came home to find his mother talking to what...

ITA, Polaris
From My Biased Coin

ITA, Polaris

At some point, I spent some time at ITA Software, a company I like for many reasons. (First, I like their flight fare-finding and selection interfaces -- which...

Why I am not publishing in PLoS One, yet
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Why I am not publishing in PLoS One, yet

PLoS One is a new peer-reviewed journal (2006) with many interesting features: The board includes many respected Computer Scientists: Ananth Grama, Johan Bollen...

Attributes of good research
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Attributes of good research

Paul Graham gives a list of attributes characterizing start-ups. It strikes me that many of these attributes could describe research projects as well: Good research...

Google Turning Over IP Addresses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Turning Over IP Addresses

Wikileaks says that Google is turning over information about the IP addresses of some of its users. The article says: ' ... Google has elected to keep extensive...

Conception, Evolution, and Application of Functional Programming Languages
From Return 42;

Conception, Evolution, and Application of Functional Programming Languages

While I was doing some research for myself about the evolution of the different families of functional programming languages, I came across an interesting ACM Computing...

links for 2009-08-31
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-08-31

Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes Seems obvious to me that the US was built on the entrepreneurship of immigrants...

Feeding Local News
From The Eponymous Pickle

Feeding Local News

If has been suggested that newspapers will survive by gathering and organizing local news and markets. I still get my local newspaper. Applications like FWix on...

Mine, all mine (& theirs too)
From Wild WebMink

Mine, all mine (& theirs too)

  One of our design principles for blogs.sun.com over the years has been to allow everything and let good sense and existing rules prevent mishaps - at least until...
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