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Tweet The hype cycle concept has been used by IT consulting company Gartner since 1995 to highlight the common pattern of “overenthusiasm, disillusionment and eventual realism that accompanies...
August 24, 2011
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Tweet Microsoft Research and Bing are jointly hosting the Speller Challenge. The goal is to build the best service that could propose alternative spellings for search queries submitted to Bing....
March 15, 2011
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9:52 AM
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
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10:46 PM
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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10:41 AM
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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7:17 PM
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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10:29 AM
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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