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Interesting Links 12 December 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 12 December 2012

Last week I posted a list of some of the great computer science related blogs I read on a regular basis (Computer Science Education Blog Roll) Week after week these...

Qualcomm Sends Medical Data to the Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Qualcomm Sends Medical Data to the Cloud

This relates to an effort I am currently examining from a business analytics angle:" ... A plan to send medical data to the cloud.Some 133 million Americans suffer...

Car as a Platform
From The Eponymous Pickle

Car as a Platform

A Tablet integrated into a car.  Revolutionary, or just dangerous? Renault has launched what it describes as a

More on the Kahn Academy in Higher Education
From The Eponymous Pickle

More on the Kahn Academy in Higher Education

This remains a very interesting approach to providing educational snippets to all:As a fledgling voice of reform in higher education, Salman Khan is an oddity....

The Problem with Requirements
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Problem with Requirements

From Business Genetics.    The Problem with Requirements AKA the Requirements of the Problem.  by David McGinness.   '...  Too often companies make large investments...

Mind Map Library
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mind Map Library

I mentioned the oddly named Biggerplate some time ago.  A repository of thousands of mind maps that you can access freely,  then edit and use for your own purposes...

Interesting links 11 December 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting links 11 December 2011

Last week I posted a list of some of the great computer science related blogs I read on a regular basis (Computer Science Education Blog Roll) Week after week these...

? A Sandman Reading List
From Wild WebMink

? A Sandman Reading List

Books for the fans of @NeilHimself's Sandman series

Breakthroughs in Learning Algorithms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Breakthroughs in Learning Algorithms

In CACM:  Some technical notes on a 'Terascale' learning algorithm.  Pointed at new sources of very big data.  Learning is the very crux of artificial intelligence...

Innovation is Everyone's Job
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation is Everyone's Job

I think this is very obvious.  But it is up to the enterprise to establish the right context to produce innovation.  Context based on the company's goals, and the...

Institute of General Semantics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Institute of General Semantics

Discovered.   This is not about computational semantics,  the form I have most often encountered,  but behavior. Worth knowing about.  "  ...  The Institute of....

Neuro-Semiotics Applied
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuro-Semiotics Applied

My former colleague J Duncan Berry is interviewed about Neuro-Semiotics.   A topic he introduced me to.  See also his site.     He describes himself as a  ' ......

Data Scientists Needed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Scientists Needed

Not unexpected, with more data being gathered than ever before, sensors becoming common, and business analytics leveraging this data towards business leverage,More...

Getting Ready for Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Ready for Big Data

Some useful thoughts and real world examples from the McKinsey quarterly.  And ultimately how we have to integrate both business process definition and business...

Digital Disruption
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Disruption

In Mashable, thoughts about digital disruption.  yes we know this already, but it deserves repeating:" ... No matter what industry you are in, you are their target...

Friday Squid Blogging: Humbolt Squid Mystery Solved
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Humbolt Squid Mystery Solved

Humbolt Squid off the coast of Mexico are spawning younger and smaller than usual. El Nino is to blame. The mystery was solved by a class of biology students....

33 Days Later, the DARPA Shredder Challenge is Solved
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

33 Days Later, the DARPA Shredder Challenge is Solved

Last Friday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the end of its

General Mills Portal for Open Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

General Mills Portal for Open Innovation

A good example of a CPG company looking for new ideas.  Open innovation at work: " ... General Mills launched G-WIN Digital, an avenue for consumers to give the...

Abusing Open Source Trust
From Wild WebMink

Abusing Open Source Trust

Selling downloaders to the highest bidder with the cloud equivalent of adware is an abuse of the trust of the open source communities creating the software. Read...

Robbing a Bank as Part of a Penetration Test
From Schneier on Security

Robbing a Bank as Part of a Penetration Test

A funny story.
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