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Nanotech Electronic Noses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nanotech Electronic Noses

New work in building electronic noses. We experimented with the idea for blending beverages. In general the electronic sensors were not accurate enough.

Student Collaboration in the Classroom: Making it Happen!
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Student Collaboration in the Classroom: Making it Happen!

In my last blog entry, I posed questions regarding what we want for our students and how we are designing interactions in the classroom to cultivate those characteristics...

Panic in the Science of Crowds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Panic in the Science of Crowds

The science of crowds is another thing we followed to understand what goes on in retail. This is not directly related to the retail context, but shows the depth...

Solar Storm Watch
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solar Storm Watch

There have been a number of notable recent solar storms. BBC article provides some detail. There are some new sites which are crowdsourcing our defense. With that...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Computer Virus
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Computer Virus

It wasn't me: A hardened computer hacker has been arrested on suspicion of writing a computer virus that systematically destroys all the files on victims' PCs...

Live Auction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Live Auction

I posted a while back that I have been helping Cowans, an Auction house. There is a live auction on Decor going on now that you can track via smartphone. The IPhone...

Carcassonne
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Carcassonne

Some friends finally got me to download the iPhone version of the addicting game Carcassonne, and I've quite enjoyed it so far. But thanks to my recent desirediscussed...

In Need of a Few Bad Papers
From My Biased Coin

In Need of a Few Bad Papers

For my graduate class this semester, there's a lot of paper-reading, and I view learning how to critically and constructively read papers as part of the student...

STOC tutorial online
From My Biased Coin

STOC tutorial online

Paul Oka asked me to announce that the STOC 2010 tutorials are now all online.  You can find them here.

Sensors on Broadway
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sensors on Broadway

In ReadWriteWeb: An intriguing use of RFID tags to determine and improve the acoustical characteristics of live performances. Unusual application that could have...

From Computational Complexity

P vs NP vs IEEE (Guest post by Paul Beame)

(Update on P vs NP: The proof uses Finite Model Theory which is sometimes called That stuff that Neil Immerman does.. Neil Immerman has found a flaw in it. See ...

Gamers Beat Algorithms
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gamers Beat Algorithms

It has been suggested that gaming and the human senses can perform better than analytical algorithms. Here is an example in determining protein structures. We...

Cloning Retail Gift Cards
From Schneier on Security

Cloning Retail Gift Cards

Clever attack. After researching how gift cards work, Zepeda purchased a magnetic card reader online, began stealing blank gift cards, on display for purchase,...

? Crocodile
From Wild WebMink

? Crocodile

The news: Oracle sues Google over Android and mobile Java Hmm. Aren’t these both Linux Foundation members and OIN licensees? Fighting over open source technology...

Non-Myths About Programming
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Non-Myths About Programming

Mark Guzdial attended the first day of the ICER 2010 conference in Denmark this week. He blogged about that day (Blogging the first day of ICER 2010) and it sure...

Mosaic Theory of Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mosaic Theory of Search

Have been involved in the use of a number of technologies like GPS and RFID which can determine the location of someone in a context. A colleague send me a note...

Can Social Save Media?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can Social Save Media?

Talk from Supernova: Moderators are Wharton's Peter Fader and Eric Barlow ... Via WIMI: Wharton Interactive Media Initiative.

Chrome Calling Phone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chrome Calling Phone

I like this idea, sending multimedia things to your phone. I have often been in this fix. Need to get things to my phone and ready to go. Android-only according...

Visual Meetings!
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visual Meetings!

Newly brought to my attention, we used David's methods to do group productivity sessions. Always very imppressive. I recognize parts of the book as some of the...

Best Practices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best Practices

Interesting thoughts about the development and use of best practices, a common thing in the enterprise. Best practices work under a set of given contexts.
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