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Ubuntu for Android
From Wild WebMink

Ubuntu for Android

In case you missed it in the article yesterday (I know plenty of people don’t click through!), here is the very simple video I made of Ubuntu for Android in action...

Mobile Clorox
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Clorox

Clorox meets moms in the aisles with smartphones.  Emarketer article about how the CPG company is using mobile marketing.   ' ...  "We are always asking: Is this...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Bicycle Parking Sculpture
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Bicycle Parking Sculpture

Neat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

Tampon-Shaped USB Drive
From Schneier on Security

Tampon-Shaped USB Drive

This vendor is selling a tampon-shaped USB drive. Although it's less secure now that there are blog posts about it.

Membership Survey Contest Winners
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Membership Survey Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our 2012 membership survey: - Daniel Loeb, from Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada - Joanna Baniaga, Mililani, Hawaii, USA Our winners...

Two Examples of Storytelling to Teach Computer Science
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Two Examples of Storytelling to Teach Computer Science

Here are two delightful examples of using storytelling to teach computer science.  These are traditional stories to be read on their own.  They differs from our...

From Computational Complexity

Is it well known that we need to redefine well known?

A LONG time (so long ago I was a guest poster, not a co-blogger) I posted about how calling things that are on You-Tube rare is odd since ITS ON YOU-TUBE! ANYONE...

Image Analysis Game
From The Eponymous Pickle

Image Analysis Game

A crowd-sourced image analysis game.    I worked on several image analysis systems that had crowd-sourced and gaming components, so the details here are interesting...

Wal-Mart Shelf Winners
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Shelf Winners

The winners of the Wal-Mart crowd sourced product selection contest have been announced.   Bottled water, eyeglass repair and food storage were the category winners...

Open Source Enables Innovation
From Wild WebMink

Open Source Enables Innovation

Without it, Ubuntu for Android would probably never have happened. My article for InfoWorld this week includes a video demonstration of it in action, and reflects...

Facial Recognition of Avatars
From Schneier on Security

Facial Recognition of Avatars

I suppose this sort of thing might be useful someday. In Second Life, avatars are easily identified by their username, meaning police can just ask San Francisco...

Contests Can Benefit Both Students and Teachers
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Contests Can Benefit Both Students and Teachers

CSTA Board member Shirley Miranda with her students Namrata Das and Noa Glaser. Recently I attended NCWIT's Aspirations in Computing Southern California Awards...

Analytics is not that Complex
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics is not that Complex

In Forbes:  I agree, it is not rocket science.  It is, in its best form,  as simple as possible.  Best if originally sketched out on the back of an envelope. Or...

Journaling Productivity
From The Eponymous Pickle

Journaling Productivity

Using a journal to increase productivity.   

Alan Turing Bio
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alan Turing Bio

An interview with the biographer of Alan Turing.   A pioneer of computer science, artificial intelligence, codebreaking and the modeling of biological systems....

Targeting Men in Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Targeting Men in Retail

Retailers and manufacturers  react to increasing percentage of men shopping.  Nielsen stats and the establishment of  'Man Aisles'.

Going to OSCON
From Wild WebMink

Going to OSCON

My proposal has been accepted for OSCON in Portland this July, so I’m planning on attending once again – I’ve been to most of them since 2000 when Sun created the...

Experientia at EPIC Europe meeting
From Putting People First

Experientia at EPIC Europe meeting

Experientia partner in charge of user research, Michele Visciola, will be one of the speakers at the EPIC Europe one-day meeting at the Elisava Design School in...

From Computational Complexity

Microsoft saves the Yahoo NY Researchers

I started working with David Pennock on prediction markets back when we both were at the NEC Research Institute in New Jersey a decade ago. After a major reorganization...

Augmented Reality on Tablets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmented Reality on Tablets

A dated article that came up recently, how the augmented reality (AR)  company Metaio is looking at the use of AR on tablets.  See their site for interesting recent...
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