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The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra

Real math! Romance! Karate! That's what the back of this unusual math book promises to its readers.  Odd as it may seem to teach math with a comic book, The Manga...

What if There Were No More Disasters?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

What if There Were No More Disasters?

The following is a special contribution to this blog from Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Center for Robot...

Companies that Reinvented Themselves
From The Eponymous Pickle

Companies that Reinvented Themselves

A slide show from Baseline.   It is instructive to look at these examples, some very well known.  I think many companies need to look at the possibility of reinventing...

Google as a 2 Billion $ Advertiser
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google as a 2 Billion $ Advertiser

In Adage:   The forward motion continues.  Really the first time that analytics methods have been applied to the complete process of delivering ads.  Not surprising...

Op-ed Explaining why Terrorism Doesn't Work
From Schneier on Security

Op-ed Explaining why Terrorism Doesn't Work

Good essay by Max Abrams. I've written about his research before.

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Happy Unbirthday To Turing

Happy 100th birthday to our great Machine Tools provider (src) Alan Turing was born 100 years ago yesterday. Hence today is his first unbirthday since his one hundred...

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

Interesting Links

Well I am not at ISTE this year. Sorry to miss it but in the long run it worked out as I am taking care of some important family stuff this week. If you are there...

Signal and Noise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Signal and Noise

An excerpt from Nassim Taleb's  forthcoming book: Antifragile.  On order." ... When consuming information, we strive for more signal and less noise. Intuitively...

What We Think We Know
From Computer Science Teachers Association

What We Think We Know

Half of my job revolves around conducting professional development for teachers. My colleagues and I have done our best to offer quality sessions that are customized...

More on 3D Printing
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on 3D Printing

Another good piece on the status of 3D printing and remote manufacturing in GigaOM.   Some good examples of where it can be practically used. I still think its...

Embedding Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Embedding Analytics

A description of recent IBM work in embedding analytical methods in decision making.   In our own experience it was always a case of how analytical methods could...

NIH Director Describes
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIH Director Describes

National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis S. Collins has penned a guest forum

Online Storefronts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Online Storefronts

Engadget asks what works.  We examined this almost a decade ago.  I thought about it for a real application.  Was there a requirement, or any value in mimic-ing...

Evernote Acquires Penultimate for Handwriting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Evernote Acquires Penultimate for Handwriting

I see that the Evernote note-taking company has acquired the Penultimate handwriting capture system.  More details here.    I have used and enjoyed Evernote on...

From Computational Complexity

Alan Turing (1912-1954)

Today we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, remembering his incredible life and mourning his tragic death. Alan Turing simply askedwebcast...

Badgeify Acquires Gamification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Badgeify Acquires Gamification

An interesting change among gamification vendors and underlying information organization.  I have enjoyed and found useful the gamification.org wiki for examples...

Re-imagining Online Advertising
From The Eponymous Pickle

Re-imagining Online Advertising

The documentary.   Google re-imagines what online advertising will become in their project Brief.     Interesting to see what they are up to, especially considering...

Whatever Happened To OpenSolaris?
From Wild WebMink

Whatever Happened To OpenSolaris?

Oracle probably thought they’d killed OpenSolaris after they bought Sun and focussed so many resources on Sun’s hardware business. But that sort of thinking would...

Google Maps Coordinate
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Maps Coordinate

New: Google mapping and location infrastructure, used to manage field crews.   An analytics application.

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Mutant Squid at the Queen's Jubilee
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Mutant Squid at the Queen's Jubilee

I think this is a parody, but you can never be sure. Millions of Britons turned out for the Queen
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