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Philips Design
From Putting People First

Philips Design

The latest issue of new value by design, the Philips Design newsletter, contains three short articles that sit closely to what we cover in this blog: Self Health...

Chinese researchers publish more research papers
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Chinese researchers publish more research papers

Funding agencies in Canada seek to emulate American funding agencies by promoting excellence. What this means in concrete terms is that few professors get most...

Programming and Excel
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Programming and Excel

Not everyone needs to be a programmer! You probably hear that a lot if you talk about trying to get more students to program. I know that I do. And of course there...

Predictive Analytics in Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predictive Analytics in Retail

In the IBM Performance Perspectives Blog:What's in your basket? Predictive analytics for retail This is the first in a four-part series exploring the performance...

From Computational Complexity

Which Name Do You Play For?

A relative on Facebook posted the following note about baseball player Alex Rodriguez.He plays for the name on the back of the jersey [Rodriguez] and not the front...

Reflections of a Former U-2 Pilot
From Schneier on Security

Reflections of a Former U-2 Pilot

Interesting.

Social Media Advertising Case Studies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Media Advertising Case Studies

From USA Today, a number of targeted social media advertising case studies. Useful for seeing the directions that companies are taking.

Coke's High Tech Mixing Machine
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coke's High Tech Mixing Machine

Late stage differentiation of Coca Cola products. ' ... Coke's new Freestyle machine is housed in a curved metal shell created by the designers of Ferrari race...

FMI Phone App
From The Eponymous Pickle

FMI Phone App

In a clever development this week's FMI (Food Marketing Institute) 2010 conference has constructed a free smartphone application supporting the event. I may be...

Assessment
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Assessment

Thanks to the hard work of the ACM Education Policy Committee and other organizations working to strengthen national policy support for computer science, there...

SnapScouts
From Schneier on Security

SnapScouts

I sure hope this is a parody: SnapScouts Keep America Safe! Want to earn tons of cool badges and prizes while competing with you friends to see who can be the...

Acceptance rate versus impact
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Acceptance rate versus impact

Should you attend the most selective school? Maybe not: Students who attended more selective colleges do not earn more than other students who were accepted and...

Local Inventory NoWhere Close
From The Eponymous Pickle

Local Inventory NoWhere Close

In a previous post there was a mention of local inventory search, knowing where the inventory of a product may reside. Storefrontbacktalk has a post that suggests...

Japanese Brainwave Initiative
From The Eponymous Pickle

Japanese Brainwave Initiative

An interesting project out of Japan. I remember well the Japanese AI initiative, which led to some crucial results in robotics. Though the generalized Japanese...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 10
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 10

May 13 Hearing: The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the national...

From Computational Complexity

NSF at 60

On May 10, 1950, Harry Truman signed Public Law 507 creating the National Science Foundation based on Vannevar Bush's Science - The Endless Frontier. The NSF is...

links for 2010-05-10
From Wild WebMink

links for 2010-05-10

FSF launches free software extension listing for OpenOffice.org Pity it came to this. The FSF would have been perfectly happy with proper classification of the...

9/11 Made us Safer?
From Schneier on Security

9/11 Made us Safer?

There's an essay on the Computerworld website that claims I implied, and believe, so: OK, so strictly-speaking, he doesn't use those exact words, but the implication...

Interesting Links 10 May 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 10 May 2010

You have to love the Internet and especially twitter. You can hear about things that you

Celebrating Six Months at Google New York
From The Noisy Channel

Celebrating Six Months at Google New York

Today I celebrate six months of working at Google. I’m having a great time, and I wanted to take a moment to share a bit about my experience thus far. First, a...
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