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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 10

January 13 Meeting: The Technical Guidelines Development Committee of the Elections Assistance Commission will meet (continues January 14) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | January 10, 2011 at 03:18 PM

From Schneier on Security

James Fallows on Political Shootings

Interesting: So the train of logic is: anything that can be called an "assassination" is inherently political; very often the "politics" are obscure, personal... schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 10, 2011 at 01:04 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-01-10

School's in for open source advocates Excellent initiative that deserves to be emulated all over the world. If you have any kind of meeting spaces at your company... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | January 10, 2011 at 01:01 PM

From Putting People First

Arduino The Documentary. How open source hardware became cheap and fun

When I was working at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, I met Massimo Banzi who embarked on an open source hardware initiative which eventually became the very... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 10, 2011 at 11:32 AM

From Putting People First

Cyberspace when you

The Internet promises a kind of immortality. What if your last tweet is the one that defines you for all time? Rob Walker reflects in a long article for the New... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 10 January 2011

Yesterday I got the Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 10, 2011 at 10:55 AM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Our Institutions are Limited by the Pre-digital Technology

Much of our institutions are limited by the pre-digital technology: (1) It is difficult to constantly re-edit a paper book; (2) without computers, global trade... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | January 10, 2011 at 09:35 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

3D Printing for Rapid Prototyping

A good example of remote 3D 'printing', here of a musical instrument, done by researchers at the MIT Media Lab. A good example of rapid prototyping. We are learning... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 10, 2011 at 05:05 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Cowan's Auctions Special Collections

Cowan's Auctions, who I have been doing consulting work for, has started to do some online-only timed auctions. This is different from online auctions like eBay... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 10, 2011 at 05:03 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Gender Persuader by Next Stage Evolution

I talked to the the NextStage Evolution analysis folks a few years ago, and they have developed some new methods that deal with gender orientation, see here for... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 10, 2011 at 02:01 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

LG Thinq Automates Home Tasks

One of the things we actively looked at in the innovation centers was how changes in home appliances could alter the use of enabling products such as detergents... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 10, 2011 at 01:44 AM

From Wild WebMink

? Light In The Dark

Apologies for the silence over the weekend – we’ve been taking a break in Helsinki. Because of it being the darkest part of the year, the city has a week-long night... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | January 9, 2011 at 11:52 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Quo Vadis, Quora?

I know, everyone is sick about hearing about Quora, the community question answering site that is the darling of the blogosphere, and perhaps you fled here from... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Motion Silences Element Change

A very clever demonstration from the Harvard Vision Lab about how the eye perceives change in moving objects differently from those that are stationary. It is... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 9, 2011 at 06:47 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

A Semantic Enterprise OS to Optimize Performance

Mark Montgomery of Kyield publishes a new white paper: Kyield Executive Briefing, A Semantic Enterprise Operating System to Reduce risk and seize opportunities:... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 9, 2011 at 02:41 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Latest Innovations at Procter

A useful outline of the latest innovations at P&G. Everyone, inside enterprise and out, can be an innovator with open innovation. These examples are excellent... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 9, 2011 at 12:36 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Cyberspace after Death

In the NYTimes Mag, an article about deathswitch.com. Immortality in cyberspace, settle scores and make revelations after you are gone? Send out email and alerts... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 8, 2011 at 01:43 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Posterous Groups

I see that the Posterous Blogging system has now added a group capability. Useful for communicating with groups of people via email blog posts. I have mentioned... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 8, 2011 at 03:03 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Supply Network Design

Recently in SpingerLink, book on Supply Network Design, by Hoda Davarzani and Shabnam Rezapour. An initial look shows some useful parts. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 8, 2011 at 02:44 AM

From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Biggest Squid Ever

It's an oil field: Brazil's state-run Petrobras confirmed Wednesday that oil fields recently discovered offshore contained 8.3 billion barrels of recoverable crude... schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 7, 2011 at 10:08 PM