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Fuzzy Hashing Finds Spam and More
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fuzzy Hashing Finds Spam and More

Finding spam using fuzzy hashing and other uses. " ... 'Fuzzy hashing' was invented to flag spam emails, but has found application in everything from malware detection...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

There’s an

Candidate: Dr. Veronica McGowan
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Candidate: Dr. Veronica McGowan

Editor's Note: Candidates for the upcoming CSTA election have been invited to post brief blog statements so that members can have a chance to get to know them ...

? Wikipedia
From Wild WebMink

? Wikipedia

For April Fool’s Day, Wikipedia editors have collected such a wonderful set of links and articles that it seems a shame to let it perish in the daily update. So...

You can assess trends by the status of the participants
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

You can assess trends by the status of the participants

I conjecture that, everything else being equal, the level of your education is inversely correlated with innovation. At first, a new idea appears interesting, but...

links for 2011-04-01
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-04-01

Creepy app warns of an end to privacy The biggest threat to your privacy is not the disclosure of any one piece of data. It's triangulation across all the data...

From Computational Complexity

The Complexity of the Soul

A CS vision professor once told me "Of course we know there is an efficient algorithm for that humans can do it." Are we just nothing more than Turing machines...

SimpleGeo Location Database
From The Eponymous Pickle

SimpleGeo Location Database

For geolocation developers:" .... SimpleGeo's hosted spatial database service Storage was released from private beta. This is the flagship product from the company...

34 SCADA Vulnerabilities Published
From Schneier on Security

34 SCADA Vulnerabilities Published

It's hard to tell how serious this is. Computer security experts who examined the code say the vulnerabilities are not highly dangerous on their own, because they...

Free Experientia backgrounder on EU
From Putting People First

Free Experientia backgrounder on EU

Major emphasis on user-centred design, open innovation and social innovation in new EU innovation strategy On 6 October 2010, the European Commission adopted the...

IOM-NAE Health Data Collegiate Challenge
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

IOM-NAE Health Data Collegiate Challenge

Earlier this year, the NAE and IOM, along with Health 2.0, announced a challenge for college students throughout the U.S., to create new apps or tools that use...

Next Post
From Wild WebMink

Next Post

@jzbJoe Brockmeier Microsoft is going to the EU about Google being anticompetitive. That's like Jack the Ripper going to the cops for getting mugged. about 18 hours...

Sherry Turkle on the Death of the Phone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sherry Turkle on the Death of the Phone

Currently reading Sherry Turkle's book, mentioned below:A podcast from HBR IdeaCast: Productivity, Multitasking, and the Death of the PhoneFeatured Guest: Sherry...

Empower Research Site and Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Empower Research Site and Blog

I was told that Empower Research has updated their blog.  Here it is.  I was recently introduced to some of their work.  Emphasizes social media research,  Media...

? Baby Owls
From Wild WebMink

? Baby Owls

We have owls in the woods around here. I love going to and from the office after dark and hearing the sound of them going about their business (and competing with...

Google Working on Face Recognition App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Working on Face Recognition App

Have now worked on a number of image recognition applications.  And have always noticed the big G working around the edges of this space.  Here Engadget describes...

Lessons from Loyalty Marketing on Job Growth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lessons from Loyalty Marketing on Job Growth

Post from the Burghard group. " ... Eric Canada has studied the impact of existing companies on job growth in communities. His data suggest attraction generally...

Reinventing Analysis With Memory
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinventing Analysis With Memory

A quite interesting video series by Saffron Technology,   I have mentioned them in this space a number of times.   A unique application of technology for the enterprise...

A CIFellow
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A CIFellow

The following is a special contribution to this blog from

Apps as the New Wallet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apps as the New Wallet

Good piece in GigaOm about the continuing march towards the smartphone largely  replacing the credit card and the wallet.  Covers as  well as some of the issues...
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