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Higher Education Bubble
From The Eponymous Pickle

Higher Education Bubble

I have been hearing this term used more and more.  It has a Wikipedia entry.  I am still old school on this, but can see some of the symptoms.   It is likely better...

Siri Changing Education
From The Eponymous Pickle

Siri Changing Education

Received, interesting thoughts. " ... We at Onlinecollege.org recently came across your blog and were excited to share with you an article

Rethinking the Funnel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rethinking the Funnel

A very good article on the innovation funnel.  We actively used the concept in new business development efforts to think about work planned and underway.  I like...

About to Get Nutty Around Here
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

About to Get Nutty Around Here

Things are about to get really nutty, and I expect I won't be able to post to the blog too much in the next 6-8 weeks (though I will still try to get some content...

Skype Security Flaw
From Schneier on Security

Skype Security Flaw

Just announced: The researchers found several properties of Skype that can track not only users' locations over time, but also their peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing...

Getting Students to Think Beyond the Classroom in CS Ed Week
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Getting Students to Think Beyond the Classroom in CS Ed Week

During CS Ed Week I thought I would find some things that may not be what I normally "teach" in CS. I thought I would find things that would make my students think...

From Computational Complexity

What is a Breakthrough?

The recent discussion on Matrix Mult inspires the general question of WHAT IS A BREAKTHROUGH? Last year I tried to get an intelligent discussion on this topic but...

Global Supply Chain Visibility
From The Eponymous Pickle

Global Supply Chain Visibility

Video in CGT:  How Amway achieved global supply chain visibility. 

Data Temperature
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Temperature

So what does the concept of 'data temperature' mean?   Summarized here, with links to more detail:- Hot = accessed all the time, or extremely important data requiring...

What is the Role of Technology in Human Trafficking?
From Apophenia

What is the Role of Technology in Human Trafficking?

Networked technologies

NY Times
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NY Times

If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the Science Times in yesterday’s

Tagging People with Invisible Ink
From Schneier on Security

Tagging People with Invisible Ink

In Montreal, police marked protesters with invisible ink to be able to identify them later. The next step is going to be a spray that marks people surreptitiously...

Could You Pass the AP Computer Science Exam?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Could You Pass the AP Computer Science Exam?

There is an article in the Washington Post about a school board member who took a standardized test for 10th grade students. To say he didn’t do well would be an...

Homesense final report
From Putting People First

Homesense final report

Homesense was a research project that looked at how we might design smart homes from the bottom up, in an environment of open innovation. Using open source tools...

Homesense final report
From Putting People First

Homesense final report

Homesense was a research project that looked at how we might design smart homes from the bottom up, in an environment of open innovation. Using open source tools...

Reporting on the Village Telco project in Kenya
From Putting People First

Reporting on the Village Telco project in Kenya

Since September 2011, Niti Bhan, an emerging markets design strategist, has been wholly immersed in the cyber cafe industry in Sub Saharan Africa, specifically...

Reporting on the Village Telco project in Kenya
From Putting People First

Reporting on the Village Telco project in Kenya

Since September 2011, Niti Bhan, an emerging markets design strategist, has been wholly immersed in the cyber cafe industry in Sub Saharan Africa, specifically...

Arup: The technology-enabled city is an untapped source of sustainable growth
From Putting People First

Arup: The technology-enabled city is an untapped source of sustainable growth

Information Marketplaces: The new economics of cities Author: Arup, The Climate Group, Accenture and Horizon, University of Nottingham Publication date: 28 November...

Arup: The technology-enabled city is an untapped source of sustainable growth
From Putting People First

Arup: The technology-enabled city is an untapped source of sustainable growth

Information Marketplaces: The new economics of cities Author: Arup, The Climate Group, Accenture and Horizon, University of Nottingham Publication date: 28 November...

Why service design is the next big thing in cultural innovation
From Putting People First

Why service design is the next big thing in cultural innovation

Rohan Gunatillake, the lead producer of festivalslab (the Edinburgh Festival Innovations Lab) gives four reasons why new thinking and tools can produce better experiences...
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