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SAP Gearing up Google Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP Gearing up Google Apps

Quite interesting development.  SAP moving towards easier to access and utilize capabilities in the Cloud." ... The current plan is for SAP to deliver an integration...

FohBoh
From The Eponymous Pickle

FohBoh

Just brought to my attention.  FohBoh, Front of the house (Foh), Back of the House (Boh).  Food service social media.   " ... Servicing the restaurant, chef and...

Textbooks
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Textbooks

I was reading through a couple of blog posts by Garth Flint earlier today. I

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

An excellent example of how novel data-driven methods can advance science and society: In February 2012, the journal

? Java and Ubuntu
From Wild WebMink

? Java and Ubuntu

Despite a panic caused by a misleading headline, not only is Java not being removed from Ubuntu, but the Java reference implementation is actually a package in...

Help Shape the CSTA Annual Conference: Be a Proposal Reviewer
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Help Shape the CSTA Annual Conference: Be a Proposal Reviewer

This is one of several recent

Material Properties Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Material Properties Search

From MIT News:   Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with...

Patients Want Links to Doctor's Notes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Patients Want Links to Doctor's Notes

In InformationWeek:  Ultimately not only to read, but to link with other sources of health expertise.

Innovation Tournament at P&G
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Tournament at P&G

A considerable description of how P&G used a tournament method to address this problem:Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald is a man with a plan. Last year, he and...

USPTO Seeking Text Recognition, Image Analysis Algorithms
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

USPTO Seeking Text Recognition, Image Analysis Algorithms

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), together with the recently created

Silicon Halton
From The Eponymous Pickle

Silicon Halton

Chris Herbert of Mi6 Agency sends along this news article about Silicon Halton near Toronto.  Startups via social connections.  How can social connections be best...

Paywall Penalties
From The Eponymous Pickle

Paywall Penalties

In GigaOm:  A good piece on the increasing use of Paywalls on the Web.    Should we be penalizing the loyalty of customers while we are exposing them to paying...

Business Intelligence Mind  Map
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Intelligence Mind Map

A business intelligence mind map that covers most of the territory typically included in BI and its implications.  Informative.

IBM Big Data Bet, with Watson and More.
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Big Data Bet, with Watson and More.

Another step forward for big and bigger data:" On the same day that IBM passed Microsoft in market cap, Big Blue showed how it will ride the growth of big data...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

In the December 2011 Communications of the ACM, CCC Council member and MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Frans Kaashoek discusses multicore...

Multiple Protocol Attacks
From Schneier on Security

Multiple Protocol Attacks

In 1997, I wrote about something called a chosen-protocol attack, where an attacker can use one protocol to break another. Here's an example of the same thing...

CS AP Principles
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CS AP Principles

A number of universities around the US are piloting courses to fit the proposed Advanced Placement CS Principles course. At the University of Washington Bothell...

10X Accelerator at Ohio State
From The Eponymous Pickle

10X Accelerator at Ohio State

Just brought to my attention:   10-xelerator or "10x" is the newest New Venture Accelerator in Columbus, Ohio. 10x is a mentorship-driven investment program designed...

Computers With Mind Control Soon
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computers With Mind Control Soon

In IBM's A Smarterplanet Blog:   They predict a number of expected things.  One is that mind control will take over a number of computer interfaces such as cursor...

MIT Online
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT Online

In GigaOM:   A revision of their previous online course system.   " ... Next spring, MIT will launch a pilot of MITx online-only courses geared  to reach prospective...
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