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Successful Challenges & Visions Track a Centerpiece of SSRR 2011
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Successful Challenges & Visions Track a Centerpiece of SSRR 2011

The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) latest Challenges & Visions track was held Nov. 3 at the 9th

Computer Controls Yeast
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computer Controls Yeast

The article overplays this as a Cyborg, but the example is interesting.  A computer causes a yeast to produce a protein via a flashing light, then measures it's...

Watson and Medical Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson and Medical Knowledge

IBM selling medical knowledge via Watson.  Selling knowledge via interaction, or as a means to teach?

Python, Visual Studio and Kinect
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Python, Visual Studio and Kinect

Python is rapidly growing in popularity in academia. Last week Microsoft announced  Python Tools for Visual Studio

A Tale of Talks
From My Biased Coin

A Tale of Talks

A bunch of talks today.Carla Gomes gave a talk at CRCS (Harvard's Center for Research on Computation and Society) to talk about her work on computational sustainability...

DemandTec Connects Weather and Planning
From The Eponymous Pickle

DemandTec Connects Weather and Planning

I have followed the idea of connecting accurate weather forecasts to planning and forecasting for some time.  We watched as Wal-Mart did some early work  to include...

Cutting Wallets Out of Drunks' Pockets on New York City Subways
From Schneier on Security

Cutting Wallets Out of Drunks' Pockets on New York City Subways

It's a crime with finesse: But he is actually a middle-aged or older man who has been doing this for a very long time. And he is a fading breed. "It's like a...

Google Embracing Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Embracing Marketing

A good AdAge piece on Google and Marketing.  I think Google has always interested in marketing, perhaps not the more formal kind, but search is a new form of marketing...

Real Time Streaming Geo Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Real Time Streaming Geo Data

I have been following GeoIQ for some time for applications that deal with analytics with mobile retail data.  Now more:  GeoIQ Releases Real-Time Streaming Social...

Picture Me In Computing Day
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Picture Me In Computing Day

As the tenth of November approaches (111011), we are again preparing for Picture Me in Computing Day. Picture Me in Computing Day, also referred to as "picmecomp"...

Choices at the Drug Store
From The Eponymous Pickle

Choices at the Drug Store

How does a consumer make a choice when confronted with headache remedies?   In the enterprise we used 'knowledge mapping' techniques to understand the complexity...

Interesting Links 7 November 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 7 November 2011

Andrew Parsons has written an amazingly complete blog post about Create and publish your own Tower Defense game for Windows Phone 7. It you want one place to send...

Interesting Links 7 November 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 7 November 2011

Andrew Parsons has written an amazingly complete blog post about Create and publish your own Tower Defense game for Windows Phone 7. It you want one place to send...

From Computational Complexity

The Annual Fall Jobs Post

For these looking for an academic job in computer science next year, best to start on the jobs pages of the CRA and the ACM. Both lists seem long this year, perhaps...

First-Ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute Kicks Off
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

First-Ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute Kicks Off

Moments ago in downtown Washington, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) convened its inaugural Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI), a daylong workshop...

Fake Documents that Alarm if Opened
From Schneier on Security

Fake Documents that Alarm if Opened

This sort of thing seems like a decent approach, but it has a lot of practical problems: In the wake of Wikileaks, the Department of Defense has stepped up its...

Chips that Learn
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chips that Learn

At IBM Almaden,  a spectacular place , where I have spent some time: " ... As researchers confidently predict a future of faster-than-ever transformations in computing...

Why These  Ads?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why These Ads?

From E-Commerce Times:  Why these ads?   I often ask that question.  " ... Google's latest tool, dubbed "Why These Ads," is designed to give users insight on exactly...

Readying to Unwire the Enterprise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Readying to Unwire the Enterprise

In Knowledge at Wharton: The enterprise still has lots of wires.  Can continued control be effective once the enterprise goes wireless?" ... In another context,...

Two Months Before Mommyhood
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Two Months Before Mommyhood

It's hard to believe that our baby's due date is less than 8 weeks away.  It's even harder to believe I've written so little about it here! What with trying to...
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