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Happy Birthday, Geek Style
From CSDiary

Happy Birthday, Geek Style

Today is my birthday, something that is almost impossible to forget nowadays due to Facebook announcing it to my entire circle of online friends. ;-) Last year...

Hyperion in
From insideHPC

Hyperion in

My friend Joab Jackson has written a good summary of LLNL’s Hyperion effort at Government Computer News One of the biggest challenges for managers of high-production...

Game-Changing Advances from Computing Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Game-Changing Advances from Computing Research

In a November 4 post, we asked your help in identifying game-changing advances from computing research conducted in the past 20 years.

USACM Chair Spafford Addresses Information Security Curricula
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

USACM Chair Spafford Addresses Information Security Curricula

USACM Chair Eugene Spafford recently made predictions about information security curriculua in American higher education for CSO Magazine. You can read his comments...

Link Roundup for November 22-26
From Wild WebMink

Link Roundup for November 22-26

Like London buses, you go for ages without seeing a story you want to link and then a load come along at once. Lifestreaming in ObamalandDan Farber notes how Obama's...

Link roundup for November 19-22
From Wild WebMink

Link roundup for November 19-22

Vanguard Records And Sugar Hill Records: The Amazon New Music Digital Sampler This is a pretty good selection, all the tracks are good and likely to grow on me....

Final E-Verify Rule Announced for Contractors
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Final E-Verify Rule Announced for Contractors

Under a final rule published November 14, certain federal contractors and subcontractors will be required to use e-Verify, an electronic employment verification...

Link roundup for November 19
From Wild WebMink

Link roundup for November 19

HDCP Sucks: New MacBooks Have HDCP, Gives iTunes Purchases Less Freedom "Because copyright protection is all about inconveniencing those who actually bought their...

Election 2008: E-Voting Poses Problems, But No Meltdown
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Election 2008: E-Voting Poses Problems, But No Meltdown

While some federal races remain too close to call, or are headed to runoffs, the 2008 election is notable for the lack of a dispute over election machines that...

Multi-core and Parallel Programming: Is the Sky Falling?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Multi-core and Parallel Programming: Is the Sky Falling?

In previous posts on this blog, Berkeley’s David Patterson, Intel’s Andrew Chien, and Microsoft’s Dan Reed presented their views on why research advances are needed...

Computer Science Outside The Box
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Computer Science Outside The Box

One of the great things about computing research is that, despite our incredible track record of game-changing advances, we

From Springenwerk Blog

Links for 2008-11-10 [del.icio.us]

Developer Forums Beta: HTTP Post request with post variables ... http post upload with iPhone SDK

From Springenwerk Blog

Links for 2008-11-09 [del.icio.us]

Developer Forums Beta: HTTP Post request with post variables ... http post upload with iPhone SDK

Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2009
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2009

The Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) Conference recently issued the call for proposals for its 19th conference, slated for June 1-4, 2009 in the Washington,...

Game-Changing Advances from Computing Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Game-Changing Advances from Computing Research

We

Public Procurement and FOSS
From Wild WebMink

Public Procurement and FOSS

I gave an interview to a journalist last week in response to the research that the European Commission's Open Source Observatory publicised in Malaga last week...

From Springenwerk Blog

Links for 2008-11-02 [del.icio.us]

Simple Localization in Rails 2.2 - almost effortless i18n tutorial

links for 2008-10-29
From Wild WebMink

links for 2008-10-29

Sun's 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Report - Open Source Take a look at the open source section of Sun's 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Report andJerry...

Social Security Numbers Widely Available
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Social Security Numbers Widely Available

According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), many bulk and online public records contain Social Security Numbers (SSNs), exposing many people to an...

links for 2008-10-27
From Wild WebMink

links for 2008-10-27

The "life full" light has been on for the last week, so not much blogging has happened, but there were a few links:All MySQL's children I think Matt has his conclusions...
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