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Specializing in the Visually Impossible
From The Eponymous Pickle

Specializing in the Visually Impossible

In our innovation center we featured a number of technologies to engage with the consumer in retail.  Digital signage was a common application.  We invited companies...

Display as a Service
From The Eponymous Pickle

Display as a Service

More on Intel's wireless display aggregating system, dubbed DaaS, or Display as a Service.  A friend who knows this space well cautions me that the effort is from...

From Computational Complexity

Friends Don't Let Friends Carpool

The AAA foundation measured cognitive distraction while driving and reported that having a passenger in the car is as dangerous as using a cell phone. On a scale...

Lessons from Biological Security
From Schneier on Security

Lessons from Biological Security

Nice essay: The biological world is also open source in the sense that threats are always present, largely unpredictable, and always changing. Because of this,...

CS Educator Interview: Garth Flint
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CS Educator Interview: Garth Flint

One of my summer projects is to collect stories from different computer science teachers. There are many teachers in many types of schools and many of them often...

On Cloud Interoperability and Portability
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Cloud Interoperability and Portability

In CN Now:  Don't know much about the specifics of this topic, but the article provides a good but technical overview.  I have been a user of personal and company...

Teradata Announces Hadoop Portfolio
From The Eponymous Pickle

Teradata Announces Hadoop Portfolio

Newly reviewing: Teradata delivers industry's first flexible, comprehensive Hadoop portfolio Teradata offers a single source for all things Hadoop - new products...

New Template + Comments Work Again
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

New Template + Comments Work Again

Because someone brought it to my attention that comments weren't working anymore (and I had no idea how to fix them), I decided it was time for a new blog template...

Secrecy and Privacy
From Schneier on Security

Secrecy and Privacy

Interesting article on the history of, and the relationship between, secrecy and privacy As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and...

Community Foundations at OSCON
From Wild WebMink

Community Foundations at OSCON

Reblogged from Meshed Insights & Knowledge: OSCON is approaching and the schedule's looking great. On the Tuesday morning Simon will be one of several open source...

Limits to the Limits of Growth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Limits to the Limits of Growth

I read the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth shortly before entering college.  I was much impressed by the details and predictions for the near future. The lesson...

Linking Many Screens into One
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linking Many Screens into One

Another advance from Intel Labs.  Linking many screens into one large screen.  We looked at these kinds of approaches in two areas:  For retail display of engaging...

Brain Scanning for Driver Awareness
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brain Scanning for Driver Awareness

Study by Intel using brain scanning to determine driver awareness.   A different technique to determine a measure of awareness:  " ... Infrared sensors fitted to...

Games Creating Acheivement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Games Creating Acheivement

Article about how game dynamics have been used inside companies to engage and prod achievement.  Notably mentioned is consulting giant Accenture.   And the example...

Boredom and Creativity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Boredom and Creativity

In Fastcompany:  Having enough boring, as opposed to focused work hours, leads to more creativity, the article says.  Depends on the kind of creativity involved...

Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture
From Schneier on Security

Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture

Great story.

Intel Projects from a Smartphone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel Projects from a Smartphone

In GigaOM: Intel has developed technology to put a multipurpose projector into a phone.  Still in the prototype phases.    I am involved in a business intelligence...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

It Takes Guts To Do Research

Or rather to find bold paths when opportunity gives only part of a map Robert Oppenheimer was one of the great physicists of the last century. He is most famous...

Short Non Mathematical Statistics Course
From The Eponymous Pickle

Short Non Mathematical Statistics Course

Nice idea, Kaiser Fung from Junkcharts.   I have often been in the need of having concise statistics training for managers and executives.  "How to do statistics...

CS2013 and K-12
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CS2013 and K-12

Are you interested in what the future of computer science and computer science education at the college level looks like? Roughly once per decade, the Association...
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