The long tail of science: Good, bad, or ugly?
(First in a series of “random thoughts on science”) A mind boggling number of academic research conferences and workshops take place every year. Each fills a thick proceedings with publications, some...
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Psst: WeatherBill doesn’t know New Jersey is the new Florida: Place your bets...
Quantifying New York’s 2009 June gloom using WeatherBill and Wolfram|Alpha In the northeastern United States, scars are slowly healing from a miserably rainy June — torturous, according to the New York...
View ArticleUpcoming CS-econ events: New York Computer Science and Economics Day and ACM...
1. New York Computer Science and Economics Day (NYCE Day) Monday, November 9, 2009 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, USA NYCE 2009 is the Second Annual New York...
View ArticleComputer science = STEAM
At a recent meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery, the main computer science association, the CEO of ACM John White reported on efforts to increase the visibility and understanding of...
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Book of Odds is serious fun
In the Book of Odds, you can find everything from the odds an astronaut is divorced (1 in 15.54) to the odds of dying in a freak vending machine accident (1 in 112,000,000). Book of Odds is, in their...
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wise.gov: NSF and IARPA funding for collective intelligence
The US National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research program provides grants to to small businesses to fund “state-of-the-art, high-risk, high-potential innovation research...
View ArticleYahoo! Key Scientific Challenges: Applications due March 11
Applications for Yahoo!’s third annual Key Scientific Challenges Program are due March 11. Our goal is to support students working in areas we feel represent the future of the Internet. If you’re a...
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A toast to the number 303: A redemptive election night for science, and The...
The night of February 15, 2012, was an uncomfortable one for me. Not a natural talker, I was out of my element at a press dinner organized by Yahoo! with journalists from the New York Times, Fast...
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