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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

If you’re like most of us, your commute to work this morning was delayed by traffic. As it turns out, on average, each of us spends 50 hours stuck in traffic every...

Israel Demanding Passwords at the Border
From Schneier on Security

Israel Demanding Passwords at the Border

There have been a bunch of stories about employers demanding passwords to social networking sites, like Facebook, from prospective employees, and several states...

Push Your Personal Reset Button
From The Eponymous Pickle

Push Your Personal Reset Button

Allan Cox, long time correspondent, has just come come out with a new book.  I have not read it yet, but plan to. It is called:  WHOA! Are They Glad You're in Their...

Shopping on New Consumer Paths
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopping on New Consumer Paths

A new piece on the experimentation with doing mobile shopping along frequently traveled consumer paths.  We are seeing new kinds of shopping and data being provided...

Adstock Model of Advertising Effectiveness
From The Eponymous Pickle

Adstock Model of Advertising Effectiveness

The use of the Adstock Model was just brought to my attention.  Have never utilized it, but wonder of there are others out there who have and have some comments...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

What Is Normal?

Normal often mens really special

Introducing OpenRelief
From Wild WebMink

Introducing OpenRelief

Shane was very moved by the aftermath of the big earthquake in Japan last year. He decided practical action was needed, and with others founded the OpenRelief project...

OSTP Holding Event on Public Sector Prizes
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

OSTP Holding Event on Public Sector Prizes

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

From Computational Complexity

Fortnoy's Complaint

During my daughter's 8th grade graduation last week, the teacher reading the names said "Molly Fortnoy...I mean Fortnow". I felt for Molly. When my name was first...

NIH Seeking Advances in Spatial Uncertainty
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIH Seeking Advances in Spatial Uncertainty

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Put the Where into Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Put the Where into Analytics

An important point in this general overview of the integration of Business Intelligence and Geographical Information Systems.  GIS is a database with geographical...

Ethics of Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ethics of Big Data

A good overview of how ethics and increased data capture relate:  " ...  As the collection, organization and retention of data has become commonplace in modern...

Changing Surveillance Techniques for Changed Communications Technologies
From Schneier on Security

Changing Surveillance Techniques for Changed Communications Technologies

New paper by Peter P. Swire -- "From Real-Time Intercepts to Stored Records: Why Encryption Drives the Government to Seek Access to the Cloud": Abstract: This...

Charles Leadbeater: A curriculum for the Next Billion
From Putting People First

Charles Leadbeater: A curriculum for the Next Billion

Immediately a second post on writing done by Charles Leadbeater. Here he asks if we were to think of the future consumers of the developing world (whose income...

Charles Leadbeater: Why cities need to be hospitable rather than smart
From Putting People First

Charles Leadbeater: Why cities need to be hospitable rather than smart

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Interesting Links 11 June 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 11 June 2012

Well I had a great weekend. My wife and I spent the weekend with our son and daughter in law. I little work done around my father

A huge chapter on
From Putting People First

A huge chapter on

The people of the Interaction-Design.org Foundation have given us (and you) preview access to “Socio-Technical Systems Design”, the 24th chapter of the “Encyclopedia...

Ethnographic research in a world of big data
From Putting People First

Ethnographic research in a world of big data

Following up on her earlier piece on ethnographic research in a world of big data, Jenna Burrell, sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Information...

Fujitsu Vein Based Biometrics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fujitsu Vein Based Biometrics

 From Fujitsu Labs: A Unique way of identifying yourself:  " ... The module shines near-infrared light onto a person

Improving Marketing Through Gamification
From The Eponymous Pickle

Improving Marketing Through Gamification

Playful Wingmen. What looks to be an interesting thought. Marketing improved via game dynamics. Everything is a game, and some new views of their dynamics.Their...
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