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Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America"
From Apophenia

Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America"

It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed...

World Privacy Day and the Madrid Privacy Declaration
From Schneier on Security

World Privacy Day and the Madrid Privacy Declaration

Today is World Privacy Day. (I know; it's odd to me, too.) You can celebrate by signing on to the Madrid Privacy Declaration, either as an individual or as an...

ThinkVine Addresses CMO Priorities.
From The Eponymous Pickle

ThinkVine Addresses CMO Priorities.

A few posts ago I mentioned ThinkVine's 'editors pick' award, they worked with us in the enterprise, here are more details from their press release:" ... ThinkVine...

Some Local Quant Seminars of Interest
From The Eponymous Pickle

Some Local Quant Seminars of Interest

Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, University of Cincinnati SEMINAR 1: Mathletics: The Math of WinningProf. Wayne Winston, Indiana University...

A Too Disruptive Innovation?
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Too Disruptive Innovation?

In HBR Blogs, good illustrative post on this issue:Is This Innovation Too Disruptive for My Firm?One of the trickiest decisions in business is to assess: is this...

In the Days of the Robo Recession
From The Eponymous Pickle

In the Days of the Robo Recession

In IEEE Intelligent Systems: Where's My Personal Robot? A good current view of personal robots, their uses and progress and the long way to go before there is...

Attracting a More Diverse Group of Students
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Attracting a More Diverse Group of Students

In the fall of 2009 Georgia Tech started a high school weekend computing program. We asked for teacher recommendations for students with at least a B average that...

From Computational Complexity

Guest post on ICS 2010 (x of y for some x and y)

(Another Guest post about ICS 2010. From Aaron Sterling. Is he on his way to break the MOST GUEST POSTS IN A YEAR record? I doubt it- I think I hold it from before...

Newton and the Apple
From The Eponymous Pickle

Newton and the Apple

The Royal Society has published a manuscript history of the 18tth century that relates the story of Newton and the inspirational-apple. Though most historians are...

Scanning Cargo for Nuclear Material and Conventional Explosives
From Schneier on Security

Scanning Cargo for Nuclear Material and Conventional Explosives

Still experimental: The team propose using a particle accelerator to alternately smash ionised hydrogen molecules and deuterium ions into targets of carbon and...

links for 2010-01-27
From Wild WebMink

links for 2010-01-27

EU Oracle Sun Investigation: Carlo Piana

Can Movie Computer Screens Help Us Design Better
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Can Movie Computer Screens Help Us Design Better

NPR did a story recently on the computer screens that we see in the movies. You know the ones with big read

Procter and Facebook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter and Facebook

A good detailed article on Procter & Gamble's proposed uses of Facebook and social media. ' ... Procter & Gamble Co. loves Facebook after all, and besides encouraging...

GroupThink
From The Eponymous Pickle

GroupThink

Interesting piece on social pressure and networks, lessons for marketing?" Can you persuade someone to like a product by telling them that it

Seer Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seer Technology

I was recently pointed to Seer Technology by a client's vendor connection. Their catchphrase is '... see what can't be seen ...'. Was led to this by the general...

Teaching, Day One
From My Biased Coin

Teaching, Day One

First day of classes for me today. It's "spring", sort of, so I must be teaching Algorithms and Data Structures.Last year there were about 80 students in the class...

More Surveillance in the UK
From Schneier on Security

More Surveillance in the UK

This seems like a bad idea: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of...

links for 2010-01-26
From Wild WebMink

links for 2010-01-26

Mozilla, HTML5 video and codecs Excellent start to an explanation of Mozilla's position on H.264 and patent-encumbered CODECs.Mozilla...

DigiGirlz Days Spring Schedule
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

DigiGirlz Days Spring Schedule

Well the latest batch of DigiGirlz Days are starting to get scheduled. What are DigiGirlz Days? They are fun, interesting and educational events, sort of like a...

The First Pseudorandom Generator--Probably
From Computational Complexity

The First Pseudorandom Generator--Probably

(The following was told to be by Ilan Newman at Dagstuhl 2009. His source was the book The Broken Dice and other mathematical tales of chance.)   What was the...
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