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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

In a post on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Blog today, Deputy Director for Policy Tom Kalil noted the Administration’s keen interest... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 19, 2011 at 03:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Renting Textbooks

Now you can rent textbooks from Amazon via Kindle and Kindle Apps. ReadwriteWeb reports that is not cheaper than buying a used textbook. The market will likely... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 19, 2011 at 01:13 AM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

Competitions Spark Fires of CS Enthusiasm

Students love competitions! * Show off their skills * Earn public recognition for their work * Collaborate with other students * Solve deep and typically meaningful...
From Computer Science Teachers Association | July 19, 2011 at 12:49 AM

From Wild WebMink

? Drinks With ForgeRock at OSCON

Will you be in Portland (the one in Oregon in the USA) next week? Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | July 18, 2011 at 10:14 PM

From Schneier on Security

Liars and Outliers Cover

My new book, Liars and Outliers, has a cover. Publication is still scheduled for the end of February -- in time for the RSA Conference -- assuming I finish the... schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 18, 2011 at 08:49 PM

From My Biased Coin

Rabin's 80th Birthday Celebration

Big announcement: We'll be having an 80th birthday conference celebration for Michael Rabin at Harvard at the end of August. Lots of great talks by big-name CS... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 18, 2011 at 08:09 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Games Talk: Serious Play

I will be giving a talk this Wednesday July 20, at 6:30 PM in the Cincinnati area on the use of serious game mechanics. Providing details of a number of examples... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 18, 2011 at 03:56 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Featured in 'Women In Tech You Need To Follow On Twitter '

On Friday evening, I was surprised to open my email after only a few hours and find that I had over 100 unread messages. For someone who almost always hasinbox... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | July 18, 2011 at 03:17 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

eLearning and Serious Games

Heather Thomas at the Trivantis blog has posted a good article on the use of game mechanics for eLearning. Making learning immediately rewarding and inspiring... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 18, 2011 at 03:06 PM

From Computational Complexity

Disproofing the Myth that many early logicians were a few axioms short of a complete set

While I was working on this post another blogger posted on the same topic here and I found a book review of Logicomix that touched on some of the same issues here... GASARCH
From Computational Complexity | July 18, 2011 at 02:45 PM

From Schneier on Security

British Phone Hacking Scandal

Ross Anderson discusses the technical and policy details. schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 18, 2011 at 02:42 PM

From Putting People First

CHI Sparks conference

On June 23, CHI Netherlands organised Chi Sparks, its bi-annual conference, and the keynote videos are now available. The theme of this year Experientia
From Putting People First | July 18, 2011 at 10:25 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links Post 18 July 2011

Quite a week last week. You may have read my posts about the CSTA CS & IT Conference. I hope you did because it was a great conference. The first ever WorldWide... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 18, 2011 at 09:54 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

In Analytics Magazine

Some good examples from the latest issue of this excellent magazine. About solving real business problems in business. Check out the magazine and the underlying... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 18, 2011 at 04:37 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartphone Forensics

It is remarkable what can be determined from information that is stored on your smartphone. Not only where you are but lots of information about what you are doing... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 18, 2011 at 04:26 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

More on Google and the Brain

A good post in Mind Hacks commenting on the Google and the brain study I also noted recently. Knowing you have something at your fingertips does not mean than... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 18, 2011 at 03:30 AM

From The Noisy Channel

Guest Post: Diego Basch on The Need for Speed

Diego Basch is the CEO and founder of IndexTank, a hosted search service that powers major web sites such as Reddit, Twitvid, blip.tv, as well as providing a WordPress... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | July 18, 2011 at 12:05 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Mining Health Data, 140 Characters at a Time

Imagine you’re at the CDC, and you’re trying to predict and respond to this year’s flu season in real-time. You could either contact millions of Americans — or... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | July 17, 2011 at 11:47 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Counting the Internet of Things

We continue to look at how things, in addition to people, now reside identified on the network. Trackable, queriable and countable. GigaOM Infographic says among... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 17, 2011 at 04:55 PM

From Putting People First

Talk to Me

In her New York Times review of Talk to Me (online journal), the latest exhibition by Paola Antonelli at the MoMA, Alice Rawsthorn describes what could be considered... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 17, 2011 at 02:48 PM