Archive for June, 2014

Riding Technology Wave, Stanford Rises to Top of Some Measures – NYTimes.com

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/education/americas-it-school-look-west-harvard.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes

To Age Well, Walk – NYTimes.com

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/to-age-well-walk/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

http://io9.com/the-10-algorithms-that-dominate-our-world-1580110464

Grocery Deliveries in Sharing Economy – NYTimes.com

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

https://www.instacart.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/technology/personaltech/online-grocery-start-up-takes-page-from-sharing-services.html

How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other | Business | WIRED

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

#Trust Me: Interesting discussion of how many “#sharing-economy” companies have become de facto reputation brokers
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/trust-in-the-share-economy

How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other | Business | WIRED

Data Science and Prediction | December 2013 | Communications of the ACM

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

#DataScience & Prediction: Nice overview of the field, emphasizing testable models, even when causation isn’t implied
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/12/169933-data-science-and-prediction/fulltext

The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye | May 2014 | Communications of the ACM

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

The #NSA & #Snowden: Argues 2-factor authentication & 2-person authorization would’ve stopped theft of 1.7M documents
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/5/174340-the-nsa-and-snowden/fulltext

Analysis of Over 2,000 Computer Science Professors at Top Universities

Monday, June 2nd, 2014

Re my listing of #bioinformatics programs, see the Analysis of >2K CS Profs at Top Us: #crowdsourcing at its best!
http://jeffhuang.com/computer_science_professors.html

Interesting note re ISMB

Sunday, June 1st, 2014

I seem to have had a small role in the second ISMB in 1994 while at the Levitt lab — my old email address is credited for
authorship for the webpages:

https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/conferences/ismb1994

!

Could You Live in 144 Square Feet? – The Boston Globe

Sunday, June 1st, 2014

http://www.boston.com/realestate/news/articles/2009/05/17/could_you_live_in_144_square_feet/