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From The Noisy Channel

Two Changes

I just wanted to let regular readers know that I’ve made two changes to this blog. The first is that I’ve eliminated the use of categories on posts. I found that... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 6, 2011 at 04:09 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Kraft Foods and Business Intelligence

An article in Consumer Goods Technology on Kraft Food's use of Business Intelligence. " ... Kraft Foods discusses its voyage toward information access and analysis... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM

From Computer Science Teachers Association

Reflections

At the end of the year, it is customary to reflect upon what has been accomplished during the year. Since it is near that time I thought it might be a good time...
From Computer Science Teachers Association | January 5, 2011 at 06:24 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-01-05

LibreOffice Is the Default Office Suite for Ubuntu 11.04 – Softpedia Good to see the folks at Canonical supporting LibreOffice. (tags: Ubuntu DocumentFoundation... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | January 5, 2011 at 01:03 PM

From Schneier on Security

Eavesdropping on GSM Calls

It's easy and cheap: Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress in Berlin on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping... schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 5, 2011 at 12:20 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Seven Reasons to Teach Windows 7 Programming

I had an email from Pat Yongpradit over New Year’s week end. Pat is an award winning high school computer science teacher whose students do impressive work under... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM

From Wild WebMink

Copyrights vs Human Rights

My article on how human rights trump copyrights is now available in the Essays section. Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | January 5, 2011 at 08:30 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Sloppy Arithmetic is Useful

In ACM: Some surprising results regarding the value of imprecise arithmetic and chips that can calculate imprecisely. Good article about potential applications... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 5, 2011 at 05:26 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Motorola Splits

The split of the 83 year old company in two pieces is seen in a number of different ways. We worked with them in the early days of RFID and they provided some... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 5, 2011 at 05:14 AM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

ACM Washington Update Vol. 14.5 (January 2011)

CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] FCC Draws Line in the Net Neutrality Sand [3] Computer Science Education Week Extends its Reach [4] USACM Vice Chair Felten...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | January 4, 2011 at 06:49 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Linkless Press Releases

Why do many press releases not include links to useful information, in particular to the release itself and the companies involved? Has always mystified me. Here... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 4, 2011 at 03:40 PM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

If human population grew at the pace of computer storage

Between 1990 and 2010, the cost of one megabyte of disk storage went from $9 to $0.00015. Had the human population followed a similar growth, there would be 300... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | January 4, 2011 at 03:39 PM

From Schneier on Security

Guard Towers at WalMart

This feels very creepy and police-state-like. What on earth could WalMart be worried about? schneier
From Schneier on Security | January 4, 2011 at 03:34 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Knowledge Management in Fast Moving Industries

In HBR, a good article that scopes out various approaches for knowledge management. How formal do these approaches have to be? Or can they just observe in the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 4, 2011 at 03:30 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Getting Linked Data to Market

Article about this course is dated, but worth a look as to the direction of this work. I had always seen this as the most immediately useful aspect of the semantic... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 4, 2011 at 03:29 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

IBM

While many of us were enjoying time off last week, our colleagues at IBM were busy unveiling their fifth annual “Five in Five” — a list of five technology innovations... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | January 4, 2011 at 01:52 PM

From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-01-04

ACTA blog by FFII Useful reference point for information about the progress of ACTA, worth bookmarking. (tags: ACTA FFII Blog) The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent:... Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | January 4, 2011 at 01:01 PM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Imagine Cup News January 20111

Are you back at school yet? Hope you had a good holiday break. I know I did. The other day I got the Imagine Cup newsletter via email and thought that this might... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM

From The Noisy Channel

So You Like Big Data

The increasing volume of data that we generate as a species is a story so overplayed as to have become trite. Indeed, a vast amount of this data is in the public... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | January 4, 2011 at 10:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Scientists

In the Noisy Channel: About data scientists, what they hve been doing lately and their relationships to the increasing amounts of data all of us have been generating... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | January 4, 2011 at 05:09 AM