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A few notes on Dagshul which Lance and I were at last week.
I could tell you about the talks, but the website does a better job: here
I value goingLinear...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | October 23, 2009 at 04:51 PM
BusinessWeek short video and article: Inside the App Economy. Great introduction to the whole notion of both mobile and social networking applications. More about...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 23, 2009 at 04:18 PM
Mike Cristiani of MIG points out that the book: The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining Inference and Prediction, by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman Second...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 23, 2009 at 03:03 PM
WIMI, The Wharton Interactive Marketing Initiative reports that they have established a partnership with ESPN. Press release and details here.Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 23, 2009 at 02:46 PM
There were more than a few good papers presented at ISMAR this year on human factors and user interfaces. Here's just a taste of them. See the conference schedule...Gail Carmichael From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | October 23, 2009 at 02:26 PM
Content is no longer king, or at least you can't often charge for it. So is community king now? So says Judy Shapiro in AdAge. That has been true for quite some...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 23, 2009 at 02:11 PM
Earlier this month, Joanna Rutkowska implemented the "evil maid" attack against TrueCrypt. The same kind of attack should work against any whole-disk encryption...schneier From Schneier on Security | October 23, 2009 at 09:49 AM
John Curran, long-time correspondent, has sent along pictures of some excellent work that his company MCosm did at the Dupont Environmental Education Center, which...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 22, 2009 at 05:48 PM
(Guest Post by Dave Doty pointing to a blog by ***SORELLE*** which points to a roomate finding service for conferences.)
Sorelle has announced a new roommate...GASARCH From Computational Complexity | October 22, 2009 at 03:13 PM
This was a great workshop given by Blair MacIntyre from Georgia Tech on mobile augmented reality games. I got a lot out of it, from being reminded of some solid...Gail Carmichael From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | October 22, 2009 at 02:26 PM
In an ongoing progression, more of the web has become searchable. Google has announced that Twitter updates will soon be added to search results. How will theya...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 22, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Computer science education reform is going to come in fits and starts working on issues from the top down (national media, federal policy, etc.) and the bottomComputer... From Computer Science Teachers Association | October 22, 2009 at 12:45 PM
James Bamford -- author of The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America writes about the NSA's new data center in Utah as he reviews another...schneier From Schneier on Security | October 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Ontology is one of those words that you do not hear in common parlance. As a result it often gets a blank stare if you dare to use it in management meetings. Ihas...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | October 22, 2009 at 10:41 AM
My colleague Stevan Harnad thinks it is silly to boycott for-profit journals. My ex-colleague Stephen Downes admits to being a boycotter, but he claims not to be...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | October 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Groklaw - Reasons I Believe the Community Should Support the Oracle-Sun Deal
Another unexpected position that is wellworth reading and which I'm...webmink From Wild WebMink | October 22, 2009 at 10:37 AM
True innovators need to know as much about when, why, and how not to use trendy technology as when to use it, says Microsoft Research principal scientist Bill Buxton...Experientia From Putting People First | October 22, 2009 at 10:00 AM
As trained observers of how people in a society live, ethnographers can help companies figure out what people need and then work with designers to meet those needs...Experientia From Putting People First | October 22, 2009 at 06:01 AM
Three articles in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM are quite relevant for the readers of this blog:
Usable security: how to get it
Why does your computer...Experientia From Putting People First | October 22, 2009 at 05:59 AM