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Picturing an Uncertain World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Picturing an Uncertain World

In the midst of reading Howard Wainer's Picturing the Uncertain World. This Amazon link has a 'look inside'. Have read two of his recent books. See his site for...

From Computational Complexity

Debunking Proofs

One of the comments of the last post asked my (or someones) opinion on the proofs floating around that P=NP or P\ne NP. As a grad student I used to readWhat...

Neuro Information Act
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuro Information Act

Neuro-information non-discrimination act signed. Consider the implications for biometric data gathering and use.

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 28
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 28

September 30 Hearing: The Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on cyberbullying and other safety...

? Children Today
From Wild WebMink

? Children Today

Why Send Kids To School?

Ass Bomber
From Schneier on Security

Ass Bomber

Nobody tell the TSA, but last month someone tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by exploding a bomb stuffed in his rectum. He pretended to be a repentant militant...

Two Billion IPhone Applications Sold
From The Eponymous Pickle

Two Billion IPhone Applications Sold

Apple reports 2 billion apps have been 'sold'. I have slowed down in purchases and am about to do a purge of applications I have not used for months. Still love...

Human-Computer Information Retrieval in Layman
From The Noisy Channel

Human-Computer Information Retrieval in Layman

One of the great benefits of practicing, as Daniel Lemire calls it, open scholarship is that I have many opportunities to see how ideas translate across the research...

Free from any Source
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free from any Source

Finally getting to Free: Future of a Radical Price, by Chris Anderson. I did not get it during the free download period, but it was just as free from the library...

Neurocinema
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neurocinema

It is inevitable that neuromarketing methods be used to analyze high cost and leverage businesses. In the 90s we saw two applications of complexity modeling applied...

Organic Software
From Wild WebMink

Organic Software

This weekend we went to Winchester Farmers' Market. It was a beautiful day and the season is especially rich so there's a wonderful range of produce on offer...

Web Squared A Tipping Point?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Squared A Tipping Point?

More in Forbes on Web Squared, by Tim O'Reilly and Jennifer Pahlka. It is about adding more of our increasing set of smart sensors to the web and then adding real...

? Topical Music
From Wild WebMink

? Topical Music

Tina Dico Live in Mainz Tina has uploaded these four excellent videos of her performing in the open air in Mainz. She is sounding...

Information Retrievability
From The Noisy Channel

Information Retrievability

Last year, I wrote a post about Leif Azzopardi and Vishwa Vinay’s work on information accessibility: Instead of an actual physical space, in IR, we are predominately...

What is the Semantic Enterprise?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What is the Semantic Enterprise?

Although many people understand what the word semantic means, what exactly it means when it applies to complex things like Networks, Webs or Enterprises has always...

CS Education in the States
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

CS Education in the States

If you've read a recent piece I co-wrote in Communications of the ACM (membership required), you know that the States largely drive education decisions in the...

UC President Interview
From My Biased Coin

UC President Interview

Luca Trevisan points to this NY Times Magazine interview with UC president Mark Yudof. Is it just me, or is this guy just completely tone deaf to the current situation...

Design and gender: going beyond shrink it and pink it
From Putting People First

Design and gender: going beyond shrink it and pink it

Femme Den is a small internal cadre of designers of Smart Design — the company that was responsible for the OXO Good Grips kitchen tools and the Flip Mini Digital...

The city is a battlesuit for surviving the future
From Putting People First

The city is a battlesuit for surviving the future

Matt Jones, design director at Berg in London, has published a piece in Future Metro which Bruce Sterling “would like to call ‘the greatest design-fiction writing...

Intel describes TV of the future
From Putting People First

Intel describes TV of the future

The world’s biggest chip maker predicts that by 2015 there will be 12 billion devices capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content. The audience...
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