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Data Werewolves
From The Noisy Channel

Data Werewolves

Thank you Scott Adams for the free advertising. Of course, LinkedIn is the place to find data werewolves.   Want to find more data werewolves. Check out my team...

Deals via Facial Recogition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deals via Facial Recogition

In CWorld:  A piece on Facedeals.  " ... The system, dubbed Facedeals, uses cameras placed at the doors of participating stores and facial recognition software....

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Do We Need Mysticism In Theory?

Are we too “normal” in our approach to open problems? Boris Spassky is the oldest living world chess champion. He held the title 1969 to 1972, until famously losing...

Why The Communications Data Bill Should Concern You
From Wild WebMink

Why The Communications Data Bill Should Concern You

  I wrote today on ComputerWorldUK about the draft Communications Data Bill. As I explained at OggCamp last weekend in Liverpool, it is yet another attempt by the...

CS is Featured in the Kahn Academy
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CS is Featured in the Kahn Academy

Normally when preparing to write a post for the Advocate Blog, I collect my thoughts for several days prior to starting to write. I had collected some great ideas...

Quantity Is Not Enough
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Quantity Is Not Enough

There is often a focus on quantity in our society. Let’s get more apps! Lets get more students taking the AP course! Lets get more [you name it]? UnfortunatelyHow...

IEEE Computing Now Expands
From The Eponymous Pickle

IEEE Computing Now Expands

I am informed:New, expanded, IEEE Computer Society Computing Now website will be live on Friday, August 24, 2012The newly designed, Computing Now website (computingnow...

At the Intersection of Big Data and Healthcare: What 7.2 Million Medical Records Can Tell Us
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

At the Intersection of Big Data and Healthcare: What 7.2 Million Medical Records Can Tell Us

We’ve featured lots of stories about Big Data over the last several months, but here’s a fascinating new one that illustrates the value of Big Data analytics in...

Exaggerating Cybercrime
From Schneier on Security

Exaggerating Cybercrime

Finally, someone takes a look at the $1 trillion number government officials are quoting as the cost of cybercrime. While it's a good figure to scare people, it...

Wizard Games
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wizard Games

Wizard Studies presents How to gamify meetings and events.  A paper on the process.  A meeting professional's guide to gamification.   How to influence behaviors...

Neuromarketing World Forum
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing World Forum

Found late.  Quite a wealth of information from the Neuromarketing World Forum including people I have worked with: Stephen Sands and Gemma Calvert.  A  number...

“Algorithmic Rapture”: Music Composed by a Computer
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

“Algorithmic Rapture”: Music Composed by a Computer

Also in this week’s Nature, a fascinating review of an album of evolved music, composed by the Darwinian computer program Iamus, that is “at the very least musically...

Stop Negotiating
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stop Negotiating

Some intriguing thoughts.  Often impractical though.  Knowing you want to negotiate sets the stage.

Video Filter that Detects a Pulse
From Schneier on Security

Video Filter that Detects a Pulse

Fascinating. How long before someone claims he can use this technology to detect nervous people in airports?

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Ten Years of Blog Complexity

We mean: Happy 10-Year Anniversary of the Complexity Blog src Lance Fortnow is famous for many things, but one is his blog Computational Complexity, which he created...

Metrics for Social
From The Eponymous Pickle

Metrics for Social

Some useful thoughts on new metrics for social.  In particular how these measures treat alternative environments.  " ... As consumers behave differently when using...

Doing Business in China
From The Eponymous Pickle

Doing Business in China

Fascinating piece in IEEE Computer on the issues around doing business in China.  I have passed this off to colleagues there for a response.  If of interest will...

DARPA sees Analog
From The Eponymous Pickle

DARPA sees Analog

My introduction to digital computing came just as the last courses were taught using analog methods.   The convenience of digital devices was so overwhelming that...

Clouds
From Wild WebMink

Clouds

These were the ones over the Dales – on the way into Wensleydale, in fact – rather than anything to do with computing.  

“Computational Social Science: Making the Links”
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

“Computational Social Science: Making the Links”

There’s a great article in this week’s Nature – out this afternoon — featuring computer scientists like Cornell’s Jon Kleinberg, Harvard’s David Lazar, and Columbia’s...
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