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Tweet Dot Diva is a Web site designed to “create an exciting and positive image of computing for high school girls”. It’s a effort of the ‘New Image of Computing’ project sponsored by NSF, ACM...

December 7, 2010 · 10:46 PM

Tim Berners-Lee on protecting the Web in the December...

Full Title: Tim Berners-Lee on protecting the Web in the December Scientific American Sir Tim Berners-Lee discusses the principles underlying the Web and the need to protect them in an article...

November 19, 2010 · 10:41 AM

First Baltimore Hackathon, 19-21 Nov 2010

The First Baltimore Hackathon will take place on Friday and Saturday, November 19-20, 2010 at Beehive Baltimore, 2400 Boston St, on the 3rd floor of the Emerging Technology Center. Come to...

November 3, 2010 · 7:17 PM

The Maverick Meerkat is here

Today is the 10th day of the 10th month of year ’10. Canonical, today released Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), sidestepping its usual Thursday release. Go to ubuntu.com to give it a spin. As...

October 10, 2010 · 11:38 PM

Secret message in the Canadian Governor General coat...

Full Title: Secret message in the Canadian Governor General coat of arms? Slashdot highlights another mystery today — what’s the meaning of the binary sequence along the bottom of the personal...

October 4, 2010 · 10:29 AM

UMBC Linux Users Group Installfest, Fri 9/24/2010,The...

Full Title: UMBC Linux Users Group Installfest, Fri 9/24/2010,The Commons Got Linux? Let your computer know who is boss! The UMBC Linux Users Group (LUG) is holding a Linux Installfest from...

September 20, 2010 · 1:10 AM

Proofiness: when mathematics turns to the dark side

This sounds like a book worth reading, Proofiness – The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife. It is reviewed in tomorrow’s New York Times — Fibbing With Numbers. It goes...

September 18, 2010 · 4:02 PM

What are the hottest areas for a career in IT?

According to a recent post in the Microsoft Careers JobsBlog the top three hottest new majors for a career in technology are Data Mining/Machine Learning/AI/Natural Language Processing...

September 7, 2010 · 1:09 AM

Probability-based processor might speed AI applications

Analog computers were a hot idea — in the 1950s! But I find this intriguing because I’ve come around to the position that a lot of our human “intelligence” is the result of acquiring and using...

August 18, 2010 · 12:39 PM

Researchers prove Rubics Cube solvable in 20 moves or less

Using a combination of mathematical tricks, good programming and 35 CPU-years on Google’s servers, a group of researchers have proved that every position of Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves...

August 13, 2010 · 12:42 PM

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