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December 7, 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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