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From The Eponymous Pickle

Affective Senses Emotion

We have followed some of the work on measuring emotion from facial expression, here from MIT spin off Affectiva. We tested their methods pioneered at the Media... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 20, 2011 at 03:47 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Story in Board Games: Betrayal at House on the Hill

Imagine finding yourself in the front foyer of what is probably a haunted mansion with a few of your closest friends. There's no way out, since the front door is... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | July 20, 2011 at 02:48 PM

From Computational Complexity

Looking for people to review books for my column

I am looking for reviewers for the following books for my SIGACT NEWS book review column. I will try to edit this post to keep the list up to date; however, ifthis... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | July 20, 2011 at 02:09 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A Who

A few weeks ago, we began highlighting a few of the 107 Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) we’ve had the pleasure of funding. Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 20, 2011 at 01:29 PM

From Putting People First

Detroit copies Torino

(English translation of article published yesterday in La Stampa newspaper – author Andrea Rossi): Michigan delegation between the cabbages and the red peppers... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 20, 2011 at 11:47 AM

From Schneier on Security

Google Detects Malware in its Search Data

This is interesting: As we work to protect our users and their information, we sometimes discover unusual patterns of activity. Recently, we found some unusual... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Are your students entered in the Windows Phone app contest

This Summer, build Windows Phone 7 apps and you could earn exciting prizes to catch a movie, eat ice – cream, buy camping gear and more!! This special competition... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 20, 2011 at 09:15 AM

From Geeking with Greg

Quick links

Some of what has caught my attention recently:Netflix may have been forced to change its pricing by the movie studios. It appears the studios may have made streaming... Greg Linden
From Geeking with Greg | July 19, 2011 at 11:12 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Microsoft Research Announces 2011 Faculty Fellows

Every year at this time, Microsoft Research recognizes Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 19, 2011 at 10:41 PM

From Schneier on Security

Members of "Anonymous" Hacker Group Arrested

The police arrested sixteen suspected members of the Anonymous hacker group. Whatever you may think of their politics, the group committed crimes and their members... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 19, 2011 at 07:50 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Media for Customer Service. Infographic Impression

ReadwriteWeb on the topic via an Infographic. The topic itself is interesting.The infographic use is confusing. At first I thought it was an ad. Then noticed... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 19, 2011 at 06:52 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart

Excellent post by MJ Perry about Wal-Mart as the most successful retailer in history. Some fascinating stats on the retailer and its operation. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 19, 2011 at 02:48 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Model Based Recommendation Agent

I became interested in a new recommendation smartphone App called Alfred, which recommends restaurants, etc, It is glowingly described and reviewed in ReadwriteWeb... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 19, 2011 at 02:43 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-07-19

FLOSS: Accept no substitutes | ITworld These sorts of scams were a serious problem that we spent a great deal of thought addressing in connection with OpenOffice... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | July 19, 2011 at 01:02 PM

From Putting People First

Report published on Behaviour Change

The main conclusion of the Behaviour Change report, published today by the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee, is that ‘nudging’ on its own... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM

From Putting People First

Interestingly, the badly designed user interface of the in-car telematics system was the primary gripe among Ford and Lincoln owners and lessees in the latest J... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 19, 2011 at 11:11 AM

From Putting People First

Beyond the cubicle

Allison Arieff talks in her New York Times Opinionator blog about the design of work. Paraphrasing Nathan Shedroff, she states that furniture is not the problem... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 19, 2011 at 10:41 AM

From Schneier on Security

Telex Anti-Censorship System

This is really clever: Many anticensorship systems work by making an encrypted connection (called a “tunnel”) from the user's computer to a trusted proxy server... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM

From Putting People First

Design and behaviourism: a brief review

Dan Lockton is publishing extracts from his Brunel University Ph.D thesis Experientia
From Putting People First | July 19, 2011 at 10:13 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Small Basic 1.0 is here!

Have you been working with Small Basic? If so you probably know that it has officially been pre-release software. Well not it is released software and you can now... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 19, 2011 at 09:13 AM