Posts

Baltimore + HTC EVO + Android + 4G = 3+ Mbps

Baltimoreans are lucky to have access to the new droid-based HTC EVO and Sprint’s 4G service. 3-6 Mbps to your phone! Hiawatha Bray writes avout it in a story in yesterday’s Boston Globe, 4G...

May 28, 2010 · 2:39 PM

Google List of the 1000 Most Popular Web Sites

Google publishes a list of the 1000 most popular Web sites based on unique visitors to the top-level domain. The list is compiled by their (DoubleClick) Ad Planner group and shows estimates for...

May 28, 2010 · 12:03 PM

Google Crisis Response and Relief

Google’s Crisis Response team has a landing page for the Gulf oil spill featuring overlays for Google Maps/Earth. This joins their pages for other recent natural disasters, such as the...

May 25, 2010 · 10:37 AM

UMBC Is 2010 National Collegiate Chess Champion

Professor Alan Sherman reports that UMBC has won the “Final Four of College Chess” for 2010: “Undefeated, UMBC finished the President’s Cup (Final Four of College Chess) 1/2 point above the...

April 11, 2010 · 7:30 PM

CFP: JWS Special Issue on Provenance and Semantic Web

Journal of Web Semantics Special Issue on Using Provenance in the Semantic Web Editors: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute and Paul Groth, Free...

March 15, 2010 · 12:17 PM

Kaggle Aims to Host Data-Driven Machine Learning...

Full Title: Kaggle aims to host data-driven machine learning competitions Kaggle is a site for data-related competitions in machine learning, statistics and econometrics. Companies,...

February 3, 2010 · 6:36 AM

UMBC Global Game Jam Live Video Feed

Via Marc Olano: The Global Game Jam is into its second day at UMBC with 41 registered participants working on seven games. Keep up from home with our live video feed and games list.

January 30, 2010 · 6:45 PM

Global Game Jam at UMBC, January 29-31

UMBC will be the Baltimore site for the Global Game Jam. This is a 48 hour event, where teams from around the globe will work to each develop a complete game over one weekend. Last year, the UMBC...

January 28, 2010 · 3:31 PM

Cfp: Two Special Issues of the Journal of Web Semantics

The Journal of Web Semantics has announced two new special issues. Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Jeff Heflin are editing a special issue on web-scale semantic information processing with a deadline...

January 23, 2010 · 2:40 AM

How Lotteries Like Spain’s El Gordo Enhance Social Ties

The economist has an article, Gamblers united, on Spain’s lotteries, like El Gordo (“the Fatty”) will will pay out €2.3 billion this year. What I found interesting is that this and other Spanish...

January 3, 2010 · 12:46 AM

Posts

Sort By

Filter Posts

Archived Posts

Archived Content