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How to Run a Computing Summer Camp - Logistics Workshop
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How to Run a Computing Summer Camp - Logistics Workshop

I saw this announcement on the SIGCSE mailing list. If you’ve thought about running a computer science summer camp this may be the training you need to get it going...

Psych-savvy product management for truly human technology
From Putting People First

Psych-savvy product management for truly human technology

What is the role of psychology, neuroscience or social behavioral study in real product management? How can it be harnessed to build better products? In this article...

New ebook details Seoul’s Sharing City project
From Putting People First

New ebook details Seoul’s Sharing City project

With its official, city-wide commitment to the sharing economy, Seoul’s metropolitan government has emerged as a leader in the global sharing movement. Recently...

The basics of contributing to open source with GitHub / GHC14
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

The basics of contributing to open source with GitHub / GHC14

My first session after the plenary opener was about how to use GitHub, presented by John Britton.  I was interested in getting some better insight into effective...

BadUSB Code Has Been Published
From Schneier on Security

BadUSB Code Has Been Published

In July, I wrote about an unpatchable USB vulnerability called BadUSB. Code for the vulnerability has been published....

Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work
From Apophenia

Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work

Technology is changing work. It’s changing labor. Some imagine radical transformations, both positive and negatives. Words like robots and drones conjure up all...

National Coordination Office for NITRD Seeks Director
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

National Coordination Office for NITRD Seeks Director

The National Coordination Office (NCO) for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program seeks a Director. The NCO Director...

2014 We Are the Faces of Computing Contest Information
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

2014 We Are the Faces of Computing Contest Information

The Equity Committee of the Computer Science Teachers Association is sponsoring a contest to celebrate the many different kinds of faces that we see in the computing...

Watson Expanded to Multiple Industries
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Expanded to Multiple Industries

In CWorld:  Good view of where they are doing tests. Mostly about Watson Analytics being applied. Nothing in grocery retail as yet, an opportunity.  " ... IBM on...

On the Digital Economy
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Digital Economy

I see that Don Tapscott has a new book out.   We toured him through our newly minted innovation center in 2000.  The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age...

Data and Fashion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data and Fashion

In O'Reilly:     " .... What the data world can learn from the fashion industry?  ... How generating conversations can become one of the most important data assets...

Skills of a Data Scientist
From The Eponymous Pickle

Skills of a Data Scientist

What are the required, or even very useful skills of a data scientist?  From the always interesting Data Science Central.   Here a recent aggregation and pointer...

Arizona Computing Postdoc Academy Introductory Conference October 17-18, 2014
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Arizona Computing Postdoc Academy Introductory Conference October 17-18, 2014

You are invited to the Postdoc Best Practices Arizona introductory conference bringing together postdoctoral scholars from Arizona State University, Northern Arizona...

Virtual Reality and Empathy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Reality and Empathy

Can a set of goggles make you nicer?   In the BBC:  At the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab.  Quite a long look at experiments with the idea of altering behavior...

Unlocking Big Data with AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unlocking Big Data with AI

AI as the key to unlocking big data.  " ... Big data and how best to utilise it has become a perennial subject, and the endless debates around it rarely come to...

Donate to the Ada Initiative!
From CERIAS Blog

Donate to the Ada Initiative!

I just heard about the fund drive for the Ada Initiative. There are only a few days left in their fund drive supporting women in the tech community. Their efforts...

Lauren Polo Tech Shirt
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lauren Polo Tech Shirt

From Ralph Lauren:  A shirt full of biometric sensors.  Activity tracking woven in.  More in Wired.

Hyperlayer for Computer Vision
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hyperlayer for Computer Vision

Just brought to my attention.   I noticed because of the applications to human behavior analysis in retail.  And seeing that Herb Sorensen is an adviser. They include...

Tracking Epidemics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking Epidemics

App sources and access to Big data about Ebola and other communicable diseases, data visualization examples.

Your Spying Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Your Spying Apps

I remember thinking, long ago, why are there so many flashlight apps?  Are these App writers just showing off?  That is what I thought, but it seems the simpler...
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