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From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Rise of Self Checkouts

A non technical article from Today. About the rise of self checkouts in retail. Also discusses the surprising removal of them from Albertsons stores, which I... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2011 at 06:07 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

HTML5 is Coming Fast

Most interesting, will it make Adobe's Flash irrelevant?" ,,, The tech industry Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2011 at 05:41 PM

From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

ACM-W Scholarship recipient wins Best Presentation Award

Congratulations to ACM-W travel scholarship recipient Tasneem Kaochar, University of Arizona, who received the Best Presentation Award at the IJCAI 2011 workshop... Ellen Walker
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing | July 26, 2011 at 05:41 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Grapheur

Just taking a look at this relatively new data mining tool: Grapheur" ... The flexible and powerful Data Mining and Interactive Visualization tool. Import,... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2011 at 05:36 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Best in Class: Cincinnati Consulting Consortium

Dick Bruder, of the CCC sends the following. I know a number of the executives who work for the CCC, impressive group:Did You Know?? ?P&G is consistently ranked... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2011 at 05:32 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-07-26

Scoop: Oracle scrubs site of embarrassing Java blog The Internet never forgets. (tags: Oracle Java Google Android) VLC and unwelcome redistributors A more detailed... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | July 26, 2011 at 01:03 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Calling for Sustainability-Related PIREs

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a new solicitation for Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE), a Foundation-wide program... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM

From Schneier on Security

iPhone Iris Scanning Technology

No indication about how well it works: The smartphone-based scanner, named Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System, or MORIS, is made by BI2 Technologies... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 26, 2011 at 11:51 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Encapsulation

My good friend Sam Stokes posted an introduction to Encapsulation not long ago. Not that I am competitive mind you but I thought I could do better. And since I... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 26, 2011 at 09:32 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Examples of Wearable Video

Here some examples of wearable video technology in Amazon. We looked at this for applications in retail. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2011 at 01:22 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The Paradox of Common Sense

Another inspiration from SFI, Duncan Watts, who led us indirectly to things like Tremor. Here a new article leading to his forthcoming book on the connections... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2011 at 12:58 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Swarm Intelligence

We were introduced to the concept of swarm intelligence by the Santa Fe Institute. Here they link to a video using the common example of ants. Individually simple... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2011 at 12:34 AM

From Schneier on Security

Revenge Effects of Too-Safe Playground Equipment

Sometimes too much security isn't good. After observing children on playgrounds in Norway, England and Australia, Dr. Sandseter identified six categories of risky... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 25, 2011 at 06:06 PM

From Computational Complexity

Why did 1+1=2 take Russell and Whitehead 300 pages?

In my post about the myth that Logicians are crazy I mentioned in passing that Whitehead and Russell spend 300 pages proving 1+1=2 (but were both sane). Two people... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | July 25, 2011 at 02:23 PM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 25

July 26 Hearing: The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity and critical infrastructure... David B.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | July 25, 2011 at 02:20 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-07-25

'B' Ark Which one is your ark? (tags: Books Hitchhikers Quotations) Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | July 25, 2011 at 01:01 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

At the recent Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 25, 2011 at 12:13 PM

From Schneier on Security

Smuggling Drugs in Unwitting People's Car Trunks

This is clever: A few miles away across the Rio Grande, the FBI determined that Chavez and Gomez were using lookouts to monitor the SENTRI Express Lane at the... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 25, 2011 at 10:59 AM

From The Noisy Channel

Attention vs. Privacy

A major feature of the recently released Google+ is Circles, which allows you to “share relevant content with the right people, and follow content posted by people... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | July 25, 2011 at 09:30 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 25 July 2011

I was on vacation last week. I had not Internet or cell phone access for a week. It was wonderful as I really needed the break. Don’t we all need a break now and... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 25, 2011 at 09:11 AM