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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 26
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 26

October 27 Hearing: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on Department of Homeland Security...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 26
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 26

October 27 Hearing: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on Department of Homeland Security...

2006 Wal-Mart Hack
From Schneier on Security

2006 Wal-Mart Hack

Interesting story of a 2006 Wal-Mart hack from, probably, Minsk.

links for 2009-10-27
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-10-27

Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service That's MySQL in the cloud as a web service. This is exactly the...

Arianna Huffington and Peter Thiel on the digital revolution
From Putting People First

Arianna Huffington and Peter Thiel on the digital revolution

And still two more video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution. Arianna Huffington interview – USA Arianna Huffington is the co-founder of the influential news...

Tim Berners-Lee and Einar Kvaran on the digital revolution
From Putting People First

Tim Berners-Lee and Einar Kvaran on the digital revolution

More video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of...

The Other Side of the Table: David Heinemeier Hansson
From Return 42;

The Other Side of the Table: David Heinemeier Hansson

It has been a while since the last post of this blog series. Though, it is not over and today's post will definitely not be the last one. Previous participantsDavid...

From Computational Complexity

FOCS Day 2

After an early morning injection of much needed caffeine, Team Northwestern was ready for the next round of talks.  Today's program consisted of talks more related...

Become Independent of Peer Review
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Become Independent of Peer Review

When I asked the director of a large—and successful—British software house his most serious problem, he said without hesitation “how to prevent clusters of incompetence...

Flocking Methods for Clustering
From The Eponymous Pickle

Flocking Methods for Clustering

For a proposed project I am examining flocking methods to build spatial clusters. Flocking/Herding is the regularly observable activity of animals like birds gathering...

A Synchronicity, a book by Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova
From Putting People First

A Synchronicity, a book by Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova

A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing by Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova Available as a print-on-demand book from lulu.com. Click here...

Data mines and ideas of time
From Putting People First

Data mines and ideas of time

The boys at design consultancy BERG are prolific this week: Toiling in the data-mines: what data exploration feels like by Tom Armitage “There are several aspects...

Squeezing Knowledge from a Pixel
From The Eponymous Pickle

Squeezing Knowledge from a Pixel

Alex Williams of RedWriteWeb talks to IBM about ' ... developing analytics platforms to help companies better understand how multiple pieces of information fit....

Human-Computer Interaction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human-Computer Interaction

A good overview of the recent Human-Computer Information Retrieval HCIR workshop this past week. This is such an important topics and it is good to see increasing...

The Underlying Foundation of Professional Development
From Computer Science Teachers Association

The Underlying Foundation of Professional Development

If I were to ask the question: "What should be the underlying foundation of every professional development opportunity?" many of you would immediately have an answer...

Add this to Your RSS Feed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Add this to Your RSS Feed

If you like what you read here take the time to add this blog to your RSS feed. Don't use RSS? Its a great way to make your Web reading more efficient. More about...

Len Kleinrock and the Internet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Len Kleinrock and the Internet

Len Kleinrock on the 40th annoversary of the Internet in IEEE Computer: A Revolution Forty Years in the Making. -

links for 2009-10-26
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-10-26

Weak Points of Sun Deal Come Out in Europe I do hope the folks filing narrowly-focussed letters at the EU are paying attentionSun...

Flare Data Visualization for the Web
From The Eponymous Pickle

Flare Data Visualization for the Web

Of interest, the Flare library, from the UC Berkeley Visualization Lab. Contains a number of visualization capabilities, an example is the Job Voyager, demonstration...

HCIR 2009: Human-Human Interaction
From The Noisy Channel

HCIR 2009: Human-Human Interaction

On Friday, I had the privilege of seeing just how much the annual Workshop on Human-Computer Information Retrieval has grown up since I conceived it in the summer...
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