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Jeffrey Forbes Named Chair of ACM Education Policy Committee
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Jeffrey Forbes Named Chair of ACM Education Policy Committee

ACM, the world’s leading society of computing professionals, has named Jeffrey R.N. Forbes, an Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Duke University...

Bypassing the iPhone Activation Lock
From Schneier on Security

Bypassing the iPhone Activation Lock

Clever man-in-the-middle attack....

CSTA High School Survey Results Are In
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA High School Survey Results Are In

The Research Committee has been analyzing the High School survey results from May and below are some of the highlights. A detailed Summary of Results is available...

The Cogs of UX
From XRDS

The Cogs of UX

We all know the rate of change today is fierce.  As technology leaps forward, students of Human Computer Interaction may be intimidated by the breadth of topics...

Service Competency
From The Eponymous Pickle

Service Competency

ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker today was Dawn M. Rennick, Consultant/Program Manager at Wells Fargo.Title of the presentation :  Moving the High Tech Industry...

Allinea to Extend Performance Tools at SC15
From insideHPC

Allinea to Extend Performance Tools at SC15

Allinea Software will demonstrate significant extensions to their Forge integrated development tool suite and Performance Reports analytics tool at SC15. "Version...

API's for Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

API's for Machine Learning

An overview of a number of APIs for machine learning in Kdnuggets.  Also a look at the challenges involved for using this approach.  High level overviews of API's...

Podcast: Dell Panels on NSCI and the Convergence of Big Data Coming to SC15
From insideHPC

Podcast: Dell Panels on NSCI and the Convergence of Big Data Coming to SC15

In this podcast, Stephen Sofhauser from Dell describes what’s coming up at the company’s exhibit at SC15 in Austin. With a 50×50 exhibit and two booth theaters,...

Global City Teams Challenge Kick-off Workshop Webcast
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Global City Teams Challenge Kick-off Workshop Webcast

The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Kick-off Workshop is this week, November 12-13th, 2015, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Campus...

TACC to Speed Lonestar Supercomputer with DDN SFA14K
From insideHPC

TACC to Speed Lonestar Supercomputer with DDN SFA14K

Today DDN announced that the Texas Advanced Computing Center has selected the company's new SFA14KTM to deliver the performance, capacity and density needed for...

Seagate SSDs Boost Analytics on Comet Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Seagate SSDs Boost Analytics on Comet Supercomputer

The San Diego Supercomputer Center is adding 800GB Seagate SAS SSDs to significantly boost the data analytics capability of its Comet supercomputer. To expand its...

Los Alamos Orders D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer
From insideHPC

Los Alamos Orders D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer

Today D-Wave Systems announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory will acquire and install the latest D-Wave quantum computer, the 1000+ qubit D-Wave 2X system...

Report on the NYT Virtual Reality App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Report on the NYT Virtual Reality App

Had my doubts about this.  But is a new kind of photo journalism and means to tell a story.  Is product placement next?  How do you determine the place for VR casts...

Articles on Personal Assistants
From The Eponymous Pickle

Articles on Personal Assistants

Recent articles on Virtual Personal assistants:http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150710005433/en/http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21664071...

John Scully on Minding the Design Gap
From The Eponymous Pickle

John Scully on Minding the Design Gap

Design gap. New term for me, but have seen it happen in tech and in consumer package goods. " ... John Sculley earned a name for himself in the world of business...

Ransomware Is Getting Sophisticated
From Schneier on Security

Ransomware Is Getting Sophisticated

Some of the tricks that ransomware is using to get victims to pay up....

ESnet and NERSC Build 400G Production Network
From insideHPC

ESnet and NERSC Build 400G Production Network

The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have built a 400 gigabit-per-second...

Beetle Blocks Visual Code for 3D Design
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Beetle Blocks Visual Code for 3D Design

The other day I added a new entry to my blog post listing drag and drop programming languages. It is based on Scratch and Snap! which many teachers are alreadyBeetle...

Blackphone 2 review: privacy and great usability
From Putting People First

Blackphone 2 review: privacy and great usability

Guardian writer Samuel Gibbs writes that the second edition of the Blackphone by security and privacy company Silent Circle is a step up in usability and is surprisingly...

Blackphone 2 review: privacy and great usability
From Putting People First

Blackphone 2 review: privacy and great usability

Guardian writer Samuel Gibbs writes that the second edition of the Blackphone by security and privacy company Silent Circle is a step up in usability and is surprisingly...
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