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Slides from Enterprise Search Summit Keynotes
From The Noisy Channel

Slides from Enterprise Search Summit Keynotes

Here are the slides from Marti Hearst’s and Peter Morville’s keynote presentations at the Enterprise Search Summit: Designing Search For Humans Search & Discovery...

Google Says it Failed at Social
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Says it Failed at Social

In an unusual revelation, Google has admitted that it has not done very well delivering social media solutions. Most notable is their most recent solution, attached...

Something Different from Google New York
From The Noisy Channel

Something Different from Google New York

Earlier this week, I mentioned that my colleagues here at Google New York were working cool stuff. Today some of them officially blogged about it! Check out today’s...

ACM Education Policy Committee and USACM Offer Support for COMPETES Reauthorization Bill
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

ACM Education Policy Committee and USACM Offer Support for COMPETES Reauthorization Bill

The House Science and Technology Committee recently marked up a bill to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act. In recognition of this effort, the ACM Education...

From Computational Complexity

What did he know and when did he know it?

Sometimes you learn a theorem in your academic career far later than you should have. Here are some examples. I didn't know the classic upper bounds on the higher...

Peter Morville
From The Noisy Channel

Peter Morville

This morning’s Enterprise Search Summit keynote was by Peter Morville, who has written a number of best-selling books about information architecture. I’ve known...

The future of news
From Putting People First

The future of news

The Spring 2010 issue of D

Measuring Likes in Facebook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Likes in Facebook

A curious piece in AdAge about measurement of affinities to products in Facebook. Does liking this, or liking that create an obvious connection for targeted advertisement...

Sands Research Reports EEG Breakthrough
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sands Research Reports EEG Breakthrough

An intriguing development that includes both speed and coverage, remains to be seen what this implies for data that can drive neuromarketing conclusions from Sands...

Braincast
From The Eponymous Pickle

Braincast

Jerry Michalski, who we often had in at the enterprise, does his first braincast. We explored some of his methods of retrieving information using a method called...

"If You See Something, Say Something"
From Schneier on Security

"If You See Something, Say Something"

That slogan is owned by New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (the MTA). Since obtaining the trademark in 2007, the authority has granted permission to use...

Join the Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Join the Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12 2010

Things are a little scary in Washington DC these days. From the ISTE Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech The 2011 federal budget eliminates funding for Enhancing...

Mass Customization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mass Customization

Upcoming Mass Customization event at MIT. And more on mass customization.

Connecting Computer Science
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

Connecting Computer Science

I taught the first lecture of my first undergrad course last night. As I've mentioned before, it's a class called Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social...

Marti Hearst
From The Noisy Channel

Marti Hearst

The Enterprise Search Summit is taking place in New York this week, and I was lucky to be able to attend Marti Hearst’s opening keynote this morning about designing...

IdeaLab
From The Eponymous Pickle

IdeaLab

Steve Rubel visits Idealab and discusses Tweetup.' ... TweetUp combines sophisticated relevance algorithms with a bidding system to raise your best tweets to the...

Complexity of Distributed Systems, Market Crash Style
From My Biased Coin

Complexity of Distributed Systems, Market Crash Style

Apparently, the stock market crash of 5/6/10 was not, as originally thought, due to a "standard" human/computer error where someone meant to sell a million shared...

Atlas Category Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Atlas Category Management

More on TNS's Atlas Category simulation tool, Unique in its ability to predict the results of key merchandising decisions. I have discussed Atlas here a number...

Biometric Wallet
From Schneier on Security

Biometric Wallet

Cool idea, or dumb idea? Its features include: Fingerprint access only Bluetooth enabled for notification alerts

Apache
From Wild WebMink

Apache

The Apache Software Foundation’s radical and exceptional transparency provides a lesson all organisations need to learn. Read about it on Simon Says…
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