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Soviet Spying on US Selectric Typewriters
From Schneier on Security

Soviet Spying on US Selectric Typewriters

In the 19980s, the Soviet Union bugged the IBM Selectric typewriters in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. This NSA document discusses how the US discovered the bugs and...

10 Reasons HPC Marketing Differs from B2B
From insideHPC

10 Reasons HPC Marketing Differs from B2B

In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon from McMahon Consulting writes that, for High Performance Computing vendors, HPC Marketing is a completely different10...

Interesting Links 12 October 2015
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 12 October 2015

I’m not in school today. Columbus Day holiday here in the US. A bigger deal is that my grandson stayed over last night. I love being a grandfather. He’s only aUS...

Multi Person Virtual Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Multi Person Virtual Reality

Microsoft Lab research.  Not of the Second Life style, but wearing head sets and exploring a common space.  Look forward to seeing Hololens in more practical applications...

Amazon Getting Fast Feedback
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Getting Fast Feedback

In the Verge:  I like the idea of a company getting frequent feedback from its employees.   Providing you can do something with the results.  Gathering trends,...

From Computational Complexity

Moore's Law of Code Optimization

An early version of Moore's law is as follows: HARDWARE: The number of transistors on an integrated circuits doubles every 18 MONTHS. Moore's law is  often used...

City Building Games.  In the Enterprise.
From The Eponymous Pickle

City Building Games. In the Enterprise.

I mention this not because I am a Sim City game player, but because I was asked several times to figure out how I could build something similar to model the enterprise...

Insead Knowledge Resources
From The Eponymous Pickle

Insead Knowledge Resources

A friend is connected,  Insead Knowlege,  worth a closer look. "The Business School of the World ... ".   Beyond the social, leveraging communities.   And their...

Evolution of NASA Earth Science Data Systems in the Era of Big Data
From insideHPC

Evolution of NASA Earth Science Data Systems in the Era of Big Data

Christopher Lynnes from NASA presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Earth Observing System Data and Information System is a key core capability in NASA...

Scientific Cloud Computing Lags Behind the Enterprise
From insideHPC

Scientific Cloud Computing Lags Behind the Enterprise

"In business and commercial computing, momentum towards cloud and big data has already built up to the point where it is unstoppable. In technical computing, the...

CPG Innovation and Complexity
From The Eponymous Pickle

CPG Innovation and Complexity

In the WSJ: Have only rarely seen this kind of analysis mentioned externally:" .... Consumer product companies don't account for the cost and complexity new products...

[Report] Applying design approaches to policy making
From Putting People First

[Report] Applying design approaches to policy making

Applying Design Approaches to Policy Making: Discovering Policy Lab Written by Lucy Kimbell Illustrated by Holly Macdonald Published by the University of Brighton...

Tag Management Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tag Management Systems

Brought to my attention, Tag Management Systems.  To compete in an age where customers are empowered to engage with content on their own terms, brands must impress...

Agricultural Data Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Agricultural Data Analytics

Have been examining the interaction of agriculture and data analytics.   Clearly many new opportunities. Detailed mapping, location awareness, process management...

What Traits Indicate Potential in Computer Science?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What Traits Indicate Potential in Computer Science?

Last week I was a bit critical of a study about traits that make for good computer science students or programmers (How NOT To Tell If Someone Is Cut Out For Computer...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Ken Hits The Big Time

Our own Ken is featured in the Wall Street Journal Christopher Chabris just wrote a wonderful piece on cheating titled “High-Tech Chess Cheaters Charge Ahead.”...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Ken Hits The Big Time

Our own Ken is featured in the Wall Street Journal Christopher Chabris just wrote a wonderful piece on cheating titled “High-Tech Chess Cheaters Charge Ahead.”...

Video: DDN Infinite Memory Engine IME
From insideHPC

Video: DDN Infinite Memory Engine IME

Tommaso Cecchi from DDN presented this talk at the HPCAC Spain Conference. "IME unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough, software defined storage...

Job of the Week: HPC Program Manager at NOAA
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC Program Manager at NOAA

NOAA is seeking an HPC Program Manager in our HPC Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Program Manager at NOAA appeared first on insideHPC.

More than just MOOCs
From The Eponymous Pickle

More than just MOOCs

In the CACM:  A failure of Massive Open Online Education?  What's wrong?  The last letter is C, or Courses.  I agree that education is not just a pile of accessible...
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