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New Economy Engineering and Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Economy Engineering and Design

Am considering the New Economy Engineer. Interesting new site. Also in the same domain: The Entrepreneurial Engineer. Worlds can be engineered as well as designed...

Looking for Research Participants
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Looking for Research Participants

As the chair of CSTA's Professional Development Committee, I recently received a request from Mara Saeli, a PhD student at the University of Eindhoven (in the Netherlands)...

Bad JavaScript, no CVE for you!
From CERIAS Blog

Bad JavaScript, no CVE for you!

I'm flabbergasted to see Adobe release an advisory for a critical issue, using everything (BID & a "Vulnerability identifier") but a CVE identifier. I'm not surprised...

Wal-Mart Growth Animation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Growth Animation

In Visualizing Economics, an animation of the growth of Wal-Mart across the US over time. This would be good at shareholders meeting with music in the background...

Kenworth
From insideHPC

Kenworth

When one sees a large commercial truck roll down the highway, aerodynamic efficiency doesn’t usually come to mind.

How to keep innovating
From Putting People First

How to keep innovating

Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton outlines some counter-propositions to the idea of achieving mastery and the dogged pursuit of excellence: Always...

Book: Innovating for and by users
From Putting People First

Book: Innovating for and by users

Innovating for and by users Edited by Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer, Eug

Does UX still matter in tough economic times
From Putting People First

Does UX still matter in tough economic times

“Does UX still matter in tough economic times,” asks Temple University librarian Steven Bell on the blog “Designing Better Libraries”. “Promoting the user experience...

University of Louisville Buys IBM
From insideHPC

University of Louisville Buys IBM

HPCWire: The University of Louisville has announced the delivery of a new IBM supercomputer.

NIST Presents Research Status on Voting Systems
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

NIST Presents Research Status on Voting Systems

In response to a request from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted research on six specific areas...

NMCAC and Dreamworks/Cerelink
From insideHPC

NMCAC and Dreamworks/Cerelink

The New Mexico Computing Applications Center has announced a collaboration with media firms DreamWorks Animation SKG and Cerelink DMG to explore the development...

Being Secure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Being Secure

Good straightforward piece on helping secure your online presence. Which has been on my mind lately.

Self-Employment
From The Eponymous Pickle

Self-Employment

Steve King looks at the current state of self-employment.

Manufacturers and Word of Mouth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Manufacturers and Word of Mouth

From Consumer Goods Technology: Manufacturers Underestimate Power of Word-of-Mouth. They overview a paper from Colloquy, which publishes research about market...

DecisionPower
From The Eponymous Pickle

DecisionPower

Ken Karakotsios of DecisionPower, a long time correspondent of mine is in the midst of putting together a blog about simulation topics. I will report on thatAdplanit...

Procter Ends Promotional Display Tagging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter Ends Promotional Display Tagging

P&G has tested the use of RFID tags to confirm that promotional displays are being deployed. This article discusses their current ending of a test with Wal-Mart...

Red Hat and Windows to support each others
From insideHPC

Red Hat and Windows to support each others

Timothy Prickett Morgan reports from The Register this week that Red Hat and Microsoft have been coerced by customers into playing nice with each other Operating...

Coding in the cloud, Mozilla
From insideHPC

Coding in the cloud, Mozilla

Michael Feldman has been reliving his past coding glory (not everyone knows he used to do compiler work for a living), as reflected in a blog post yesterday While...

TPC video overview of the new energy efficiency
From insideHPC

TPC video overview of the new energy efficiency

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is working on several new benchmarks this year, one of which is an energy efficiency benchmark. Here’s a link...

SiCortex hardware supports Virtual
From insideHPC

SiCortex hardware supports Virtual

A quick search of past posts verifies that, yes, this is the first pairie-related post here in nearly three thousand news posts. Sure, its a niche record, but I’m...
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