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Transparent Text Symposium: Day 2
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Transparent Text Symposium: Day 2


The Secunia Personal Software Inspector
From CERIAS Blog

The Secunia Personal Software Inspector

So you have all the patches from Microsoft applied automatically, Firefox updates itself as well as its extensions... But do you still have vulnerable, outdated...

Qwaq Becomes Teleplace
From The Eponymous Pickle

Qwaq Becomes Teleplace

I recently brought up Qwaq, which we looked at for remote visual, avatar-enabled collaboration. They announced today that they have become Teleplace. Good nameTeleplace...

From Computational Complexity

The Netflix Prize and the Sequel

Nearly three years ago I posted on the just announced Netflix prize. First to a 10% increase in the quality of the movie recommendations would receive a million...

From Putting People First

Tomorrow I will be speaking at an informal, but high energy Paris conference, called (somewhat predictably) Paris 2.0. The conference takes a total of four days...

Enhancing user interaction with first person user interface
From Putting People First

Enhancing user interaction with first person user interface

Luke Wroblewski, an internationally recognized Web thought leader and Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., provides a comprehensive overview...

Interfaces Magazine interviews Donald Norman
From Putting People First

Interfaces Magazine interviews Donald Norman

The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), contains...

Hacking Two-Factor Authentication
From Schneier on Security

Hacking Two-Factor Authentication

Back in 2005, I wrote about the failure of two-factor authentication to mitigate banking fraud: Here are two new active attacks we're starting to see: Man-in-the...

IFTF on Future Knowledge Ecosystems
From The Eponymous Pickle

IFTF on Future Knowledge Ecosystems

I worked with Institute for the Future for years, and blogged for them as well. A new interesting report from them: Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty...

Quantum Computer Factors the Number 15
From Schneier on Security

Quantum Computer Factors the Number 15

This is an important development: Shor's algorithm was first demonstrated in a computing system based on nuclear magnetic resonance -- manipulating molecules in...

Not Teaching / Double Teaching
From My Biased Coin

Not Teaching / Double Teaching

Last semester, for various reasons, I ended up "double-teaching", offering both my undergraduate algorithms class and my graduate network algorithms class. The...

Atlas - Modeling Shopper Behavior : Paper
From The Eponymous Pickle

Atlas - Modeling Shopper Behavior : Paper

I recently posted about a shopper modeling system from TNS - Sorensen called Atlas, at that link you will find more information about the method and how it is evolving...

Transparent Text Symposium: Day 1
From The Noisy Channel

Transparent Text Symposium: Day 1


Follow-Up Podcast for UIE Seminar on Faceted Search (Free!)
From The Noisy Channel

Follow-Up Podcast for UIE Seminar on Faceted Search (Free!)


Measuring Social  ROI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measuring Social ROI

Measuring social network ROI, fairly obvious, but with some useful examples.

Inferring Friendship from Location Data
From Schneier on Security

Inferring Friendship from Location Data

Interesting: For nine months, Eagle's team recorded data from the phones of 94 students and staff at MIT. By using blue-tooth technology and phone masts, theyabstract...

Talk Like a Pirate Day
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Arrr! I hope everyone had a swashbuckling day this past September 19. As you no doubt knew, September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day - an unofficial...

From Computational Complexity

Why You Shouldn't Not Go to FOCS

You can now register on-line for FOCS which includes the 50th celebration. Early registration deadline is October 1. Hotel rate good until October 9th or whilehttp...

The Face of Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Face of Data

Akin to Chernoff faces, but univariate. You can generate a smiley face in Excel that displays a range of emotions. Fun and perhaps useful if you can stand a smiley...

Live Tweeting from Transparent Text Symposium
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Live Tweeting from Transparent Text Symposium

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