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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 14

March 14 Hearing: The Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on promoting and protecting...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | March 14, 2011 at 02:06 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Dropping the Dollar Bill

A clear case for replacing all US denominations below five dollars with coins. Why has it not worked in the past? Because they didn't remove the dollar bill. ... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 14, 2011 at 01:17 PM

From Wild WebMink

? Subscriptions Article Available

My article discussing why open source subscriptions should not be procured with the same assumptions and procedures as proprietary software is now available in... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | March 14, 2011 at 10:00 AM

From Schneier on Security

Using Language Patterns to Identify Anonymous E-Mail

Interesting research. It only works when there's a limited number of potential authors: To test the accuracy of their technique, Fung and his colleagues examined... schneier
From Schneier on Security | March 14, 2011 at 09:46 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 14 March 2011

This highlight of my week last week was being in Dallas Texas for SIGCSE. This is by far my favorite conference of the year. I was able to connect with a bunchTop... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 14, 2011 at 09:22 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartphone Enabled Cancer Detection

A protype that is a good example of mobile sensor-based data display and analysis: At the Singularity Hub: " ... Massachusetts General Hospital that have knocked... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 13, 2011 at 06:25 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Circles

It has been rumored that Google will soon launch a new social networking system called Google Circles. Do we need a new social network? The emphasis stated is... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 13, 2011 at 05:51 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

TED Opens up Data and Talks

FastCompany reports that the TED conference will open their talks and related data sources with an API around midyear. Creative idea. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 13, 2011 at 05:38 PM

From Wild WebMink

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From Wild WebMink | March 13, 2011 at 03:24 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Fumbling the Future

Mini review and current perspective of the book:"Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer is the title of a classic 1998... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 13, 2011 at 02:27 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Foursquare and Amex Test Loyalty Marketing

A local merchant test to see how Foursquare can be used to build loyalty: " ... The pilot program started Friday and will run through Tuesday, March 15. Participating... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 13, 2011 at 06:34 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Daylight Savings Time

A history of daylight savings time. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 13, 2011 at 04:44 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

SMS Codes for Postage in Europe

In Readwriteweb: Could it be that postage stamps are on their way out? I am a long time student of the history of the postage system , and this makes sense. Of... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 13, 2011 at 04:20 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking Haiti Water with RFID Tags

Another example of how touchless scanners using smartphone can be used for rapid identification. " ... Deep Springs International is using NFC-enabled phones provided... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 13, 2011 at 03:50 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Media Success

What does social media success look like? " ... While firms are realizing that social media networks harbor the potential to provide intelligence and engage customers... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 12, 2011 at 02:18 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Python Tools for Visual Studio

Microsoft has just released the Python Tools for Visual Studio add-in (Beta) . This add-in lets programmers write Python code with Ironpython, CPython, debugIronPython... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 12, 2011 at 01:57 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-03-12

Sun.com Will Disappear After June 1 Looks like we have even more link corrosion coming up. Would it really be so hard just to freeze all the content and leave it... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | March 12, 2011 at 01:02 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The Legality of Selling Yellow Margarine

MJ Perry on the inefficiency of using laws to distort free markets. Using the US case of Margarine. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 12, 2011 at 05:59 AM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Senate Passes Patent Reform Bill

On March 8 the Senate passed a bill intended to reform the patent system. S. 23, the Patent Reform Act of 2011, would take steps to harmonize the U.S. patent system...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | March 12, 2011 at 05:01 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Webcast Series for K-12 educators and teacher recognition program

I received the following from the Microsoft Innovative Educators program today and thought it was worth sharing. We have a launched a new Microsoft Innovative... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 11, 2011 at 11:28 PM