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Have We Reached a Consensus on a National CS Curriculum?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Have We Reached a Consensus on a National CS Curriculum?

Oh boy are things up in the air in the HS CS curriculum these days. While we have some great advice from the CSTA () the implementation of those suggestions are...

New Markets from iBeacons
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Markets from iBeacons

From Business Insider:  A new market, and is what Apple up to really different? " ... Beacons are a low-cost piece of hardware — small enough to attach to a wall...

Data Interaction in Organizational Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Interaction in Organizational Systems

This paper in Data Science Central relates to a number of previous projects, and proposals for enterprise work ongoing.   An underlying goal, but still underachieved...

Moving from Simulation to the Holodeck
From The Eponymous Pickle

Moving from Simulation to the Holodeck

Looking at beginnings of the Holodeck.  How does this related to virtual reality in general?  Again I think this should always be connected to virtual reality.Simulation...

New Types of Math Culture from Computers
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Types of Math Culture from Computers

In the ACM:  More on a  new type of math.  With some interesting visuals. In the early days of common computing we saw indications that computing would support"...

Swedish inspirations on design for public policy
From Putting People First

Swedish inspirations on design for public policy

The Forum for Social Innovation Sweden is a meeting place for academia, industry, government, civic society and non-profit organisations in Sweden striving to develop...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Codes Meet Numbers

Results and problems about primes that make us think of coding theory Cropped from source. Zhi-Wei Sun is a professor in Mathematics at Nanjing University in China...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Codes Meet Numbers

Results and problems about primes that make us think of coding theory Cropped from source. Zhi-Wei Sun is a professor in Mathematics at Nanjing University in China...

P&G Wins at Sochi
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Wins at Sochi

In Knowledge@Wharton.  A detailed look at Procter's brand development with the Sochi Olympics.  " ... Along with athletes, brand marketers also competed for attention...

Running a Simple Classifier
From The Eponymous Pickle

Running a Simple Classifier

Been following Machine Learning Mastery, by Jason Brownlee.   He posted an item about a free classifier in Weka that I had not seen before.   He includes a step...

Millennial Work Ethics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Millennial Work Ethics

In CLO Mag:  An interview with Ian Wolfe.  president of Success Performance Solutions.  " ... It’s no secret that today’s workforce isn’t into working 9 to 5, coming...

Targeting with Mobile: Coupons are Moving
From The Eponymous Pickle

Targeting with Mobile: Coupons are Moving

In Forbes:  Good overall view of how promotion couponing is moving to mobile:" ... Those coupons that used to be available from red dispensers on grocery storeThe...

Curious Calculations by Wolfram Alpha
From The Eponymous Pickle

Curious Calculations by Wolfram Alpha

Been a while since I looked at Wolfram Alpha.  Here is an example page of questions that WA can solve when asked.  Just click on each question on the link.  AsWolfram...

Major Snack Maker Digitizes and Socializes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Major Snack Maker Digitizes and Socializes

More moves in ad socialization, in Ad Age:" ... Snack Maker's Media Chief Says 'It's About Digitizing Our Entire Approach to Communications' .. Master best practices...

Any Monkey Can Learn To Code
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Any Monkey Can Learn To Code

One never knows where something is going to go on Twitter. I recently tweeted a link to a post by Garth Flint titled Teaching programming is not getting easier@alfredtwo...

NSF Launches Search for Division Director of Computer and Network Systems
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Launches Search for Division Director of Computer and Network Systems

Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation(NSF) for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has sent...

The Great Convergence
From Putting People First

The Great Convergence

Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path argues that the constellations in the user experience field are shifting and that we are experiencing some sort of collision...

Search results on travel sites: examples and best practices
From Putting People First

Search results on travel sites: examples and best practices

Search results pages on travel sites should help customers to find the best deal for them without having to work too hard. Graham Charlton of Econsultancy looked...

On the State of Virtual Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the State of Virtual Reality

In Technology Review: A review of the state of a technology, now some thirty years old, and how new startups are hoping to take it mainstream.  The problem may...

You are Being Watched by a Algorithm
From The Eponymous Pickle

You are Being Watched by a Algorithm

In Schneier on Security: You are being watched by algorithms.   With the advent of methods that use Big Data to track, adapt and interact based on online sensors...
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