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Math. Science. Recess. Minecraft? Twitch club brings gaming to school
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Math. Science. Recess. Minecraft? Twitch club brings gaming to school

Seventh-grader Brayden Foxhoven hurries to finish his chicken fingers. He has bases to capture. Gems to collect. Viewers to entertain.

Few insurers cut rates for new electronic safety devices
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Few insurers cut rates for new electronic safety devices

After hearing good things about the latest in crash-prevention technologies, you decided to add automatic emergency braking to your new car.

Dissertation finds more ways to use footprints found at crime scenes
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Dissertation finds more ways to use footprints found at crime scenes

A final-year student at the University of Dundee has used his dissertation to find more ways to use footprints found at crime scenes.

Why is the black box not stored in the cloud?
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Why is the black box not stored in the cloud?

Professor David Stupples, City's Professor of Electronic and Radio Systems, says the time has come for the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit data recorder...

Union: No room for old technology in new airport towers
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Union: No room for old technology in new airport towers

Two state-of-the-art airport towers due to go into operation this fall in San Francisco and Las Vegas will first need extensive remodeling to make room for technology...

A lesson in backups
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A lesson in backups

Michael Friedman learned the hard way how important it is to back up computers.

STOC 2017 (and STOC 2016)
From My Biased Coin

STOC 2017 (and STOC 2016)

I'm starting to get asked about STOC 2017 dates -- we recently executed the hotel contract, and STOC will be June 18-23 in Montreal.  (It will really "start" the...

Is photoshopping science universally wrong?
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Is photoshopping science universally wrong?

"Photoshop should be banned from every scientific research institution".

False positives suck, of course.
From The Noisy Channel

False positives suck, of course.

If you ignore the bigrams, then most of your results are irrelevant. Boost bigram matches a little bit? Then you still have a lot of…Continue reading on Medium...

Let Bigrams be Bigrams
From The Noisy Channel

Let Bigrams be Bigrams

I’ve spent most of my career advocating for the use of query understanding to improve search relevance. It’s not that I don’t value search…Continue reading on Medium...

Class Evaluations, Again
From My Biased Coin

Class Evaluations, Again

I've not been blogging much, but I have an excuse now that class evaluations have arrived.  By posting about the evaluations, the students know I read them.  And...

Beijing tracks the elderly as they take buses, go shopping
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Beijing tracks the elderly as they take buses, go shopping

These days, when people over 80 in Beijing take a bus, see a doctor or spend money, their activities are digitally tracked by the government, as part of an effort...

Hang up: Dutch look at banning use of cellphones on bikes
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Hang up: Dutch look at banning use of cellphones on bikes

The Dutch government is considering banning the country's millions of cyclists from using their cellphones while riding, saying pedaling and phones are a dangerous...

Humans less likely to return to an automated advisor once given bad advice
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Humans less likely to return to an automated advisor once given bad advice

The ubiquitous Chat Bot popping up on websites asking if you need help has become standard on many sites. We dismiss, we engage, but do we trust the algorithm that...

SODA Information
From My Biased Coin

SODA Information

Phil Klein passed on that there's a delay at SIAM in getting the SODA 2017 CFP up, and of course we want to get out the relevant information out to the community...

Award-winning academic research search engine metaBUS launches in June
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Award-winning academic research search engine metaBUS launches in June

A trailblazing online search engine that will save researchers years of time while conducting meta-analysis will be unveiled next week at the University of Calgary...

Tests show drivers can't accurately judge speed of approaching train
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Tests show drivers can't accurately judge speed of approaching train

Drivers can see trains approaching but cannot accurately judge their speed when proceeding through a passive level crossing, a QUT and Australasian Centre for Rail...

How does a bike stay upright? Surprisingly, it's all in the mind
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How does a bike stay upright? Surprisingly, it's all in the mind

It's as easy as riding a bike … or so the saying goes. But how do we manage to stay upright on a bicycle? If anyone ventures an answer they most often say that...

Gov't report: Feds spend billions to run ancient technology
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Gov't report: Feds spend billions to run ancient technology

The government is spending about three-fourths of its technology budget maintaining aging computer systems, including platforms more than 50 years old in vital...

We need to know the algorithms the government uses to make important decisions about us
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We need to know the algorithms the government uses to make important decisions about us

In criminal justice systems, credit markets, employment arenas, higher education admissions processes and even social media networks, data-driven algorithms now...
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