Computer Science posts
- March 17, 2010
- 04:47 AM
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Entre « effets de petit monde » et émiettement communautaire: la légitimation culturelle à l’heure de Facebook
by ---a in Bodyspacesociety.eu
par Antonio A. CASILLI (Centre Edgar-Morin, EHESS) [1]
Le texte qui suit a été présenté aux Journées d’études Les réseaux sociaux: Quoi de neuf ?, qui ont eu lieu à l’université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail, 16-17 mars 2010, dans le cadre des activités du Réseau Thématique 26 de l’Association Française de Sociologie.
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Antonio A. Casilli . (2010) Légitimation intersubjective de la présence en ligne et formation de réseaux sociaux : Une approche ethno-computationnelle. II Journées d'études du RT 26 (Réseaux sociaux) de l'Association Française de Sociologie "Les réseaux sociaux: quoi de neuf ?", 16-17 mars, Université de Toulouse II - Le Mirail. info:/
- March 11, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 31 views
Are you scummy froth or riding the business waves?
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
It’s perhaps an obvious statement perhaps needing only one word to qualify it – successful business sells. As an allegedly going concern, if you’re not selling your products or services, then you’re not likely to remain viable for very long. It seems to be too easy for companies to be distracted from this mantra by [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkAre you scummy froth or riding the business waves?
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David Smallman. (2010) Without instructions or orders, there is no business. Int. J. Liability and Scientific Enquiry, 3(3), 179-182. info:/
- March 7, 2010
- 11:01 AM
- 89 views
The sociology of Chatroulette
by ---a in Bodyspacesociety.eu
by Antonio A. Casilli (Centre Edgar-Morin, Paris) [1]
By now, you might have heard about Chatroulette, if you are hip and tech-savvy if those two things at the sides of your face are your ears. By the way, I hope you did not click on the link. It’s not safe for work. And by that I [...]... Read more »
Peter M. Todd. (1997) Searching for the next best mate. In R. Conte, R. Hegselmann, and P. Terna (Eds.) Simulating social phenomena, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 419-436. info:/
- March 3, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 72 views
Hacking your online identity
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Geo-location services are very useful, helping you find a post office, ATM, decent restaurant, or hooking up with friends. They are commonly used in conjunction with smart phones and other mobile devices that ping your location (based on network coordinates or the global positioning system, GPS) back to the owner of a given system.
Location-based services [...]Hacking your online identity is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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T. Martin, C. Durbin, M. Pawlewski, & D. Parish. (2010) Future vision of identity. Int. J. Liability and Scientific Enquiry, 3(1/2), 86-98. info:/
- March 2, 2010
- 01:00 PM
- 75 views
Dawkins.net: Storm in a teacup 2.0?
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
Anyone in the skeptical and atheist community who hasn't heard of the row that erupted over changes to richarddawkins.net forum probably still uses a 56K modem and a dialup connection.
This post summarises the fallout and explores the issue of online communities: are they real or illusory?... Read more »
Haythornwaite, C. (2008) Chapter 9: Social Networks and Community, Oxford handbook of internet psychology – Edited by Adam Joinson. British Journal of Educational Technology, 39(3), 561-562. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2008.00855_4.x
- February 25, 2010
- 05:00 AM
- 54 views
Apache Maven: A Misbehavin’ Build Tool?
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
One of the many tools we use in our team to manage the development of ChEBI software is an automated build tool called Apache Maven. Opinions are often divided on whether Maven is a good or a bad thing. Most of them are very subjective, argumentative and often very extended. See why does maven have [...]... Read more »
Stroustrup, B. (2010) Viewpoint: What should we teach new software developers? Why?. Communications of the ACM, 53(1), 40. DOI: 10.1145/1629175.1629192
Bjarne Stroustrup. (2007) Evolving a language in and for the real world: C 1991-2006. Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages. DOI: 10.1145/1238844.1238848
Bjarne Stroustrup. (1993) A history of C : 1979–1991. The second ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages. DOI: 10.1145/154766.155375
- February 24, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 88 views
How to fix Wikipedia
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
The introduction of so-called Flagged Revisions on the infamous online information repository, Wikipedia, do not go far enough to allow the site to mature into an accurate and wholly verifiable Internet resource. Instead, the adoption of more traditional values is the only way forward, argue Australian information experts.
Wikipedia is a user-produced online encyclopedia and, since [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkHow to fix Wikipedia
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Lichtenstein, S., & Parker, C. (2009) Wikipedia model for collective intelligence: a review of information quality. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 5(3/4), 254. DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2009.031199
- February 22, 2010
- 02:02 AM
- 85 views
How Risky Are Social Networking Sites for Kids
by Dr Shock in Dr Shock MD PhD
This article discussed in this post, isn’t recent but the conclusion is very nuanced which isn’t always the case with publications especially in news media about social networking and kids or adolescents. Seems that politicians are advocating measures to restrict social networking for children in order to prevent assumed online sexual exploitation and Internet harassment.
Broad [...]
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Ybarra, M., & Mitchell, K. (2008) How Risky Are Social Networking Sites? A Comparison of Places Online Where Youth Sexual Solicitation and Harassment Occurs. PEDIATRICS, 121(2). DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-0693
- February 20, 2010
- 02:10 PM
- 96 views
presenting the amazing evolving automatons
by Greg Fish in weird things
A while back I made a post about the use of robots to simulate evolutionary behaviors by giving them a kind of free reign and copying the programming of the machines most successful in their tasks into the rest of the test group to emulate natural selection. Now, the lead author of that study, Dario [...]... Read more »
Floreano, D., & Keller, L. (2010) Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection. PLoS Biology, 8(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292
- February 13, 2010
- 06:47 AM
- 112 views
Scratch: Reducing Syntactic Complexity
by Simon Wells in Strange Aeons
I was looking for inspiration for a good way to do visually-based programming. I have a domain specific language which is fairly straightforward to use but because it contains some of the traditional selection constructs, like if-elseif-then blocks, it suffers from the same kind of complexity that makes most programming languages fairly inaccessible to non-programmers. [...]... Read more »
Mitchel Resnick, John Maloney, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Natalie Rusk, Evelyn Eastmond, Karen Brennan, Amon Millner, Eric Rosenbaum, Jay Silver, Brian Silverman.... (2009) Scratch: Programming for All. Communications of the ACM, 52(11), 60-67. info:other/
- February 12, 2010
- 10:12 AM
- 100 views
The 3rd OBO Foundry Workshop 2010, Cambridge, UK
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) [1] are a set of reference ontologies for describing all kinds of biomedical data shared in a centralised OBO Foundry. Every year, users and developers of these ontologies gather from around the globe for a workshop at the EBI near Cambridge, UK. Following on from the first workshop two years [...]... Read more »
Smith, B., Ashburner, M., Rosse, C., Bard, J., Bug, W., Ceusters, W., Goldberg, L., Eilbeck, K., Ireland, A., Mungall, C.... (2007) The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration. Nature Biotechnology, 25(11), 1251-1255. DOI: 10.1038/nbt1346
- February 11, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 80 views
There’s a tweeting emergency
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
If you join Twitter in response to a major emergency situation, you’re more likely to become a long-term adopter of the technology. Many early users shared nothing more than the minutiae of their everyday lives on the personal micro-blogging service. However, the Mumbai Taj Hotel terrorist attack, the Hudson River plane crash, California wildfires, Australian [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkThere’s a tweeting emergency
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Amanda Lee Hughes, & Leysia Palen. (2009) Twitter adoption and use in mass convergence and emergency events. Int. J. Emergency Management, 6(3/4), 248-260. info:/
- February 11, 2010
- 06:54 AM
- 105 views
Nature-inspired network design: recent studies in slime mold and leaf veins
by Hannah Waters in Culturing Science – biology as relevant to us earthly beings
Nature-inspired design: this phrase makes me think of shark-skin swimsuits, velcro, and an endless assortment of coffee tables using natural knots and tree branches. There is logic behind design reliant upon natural elements. After all, organisms have been undergoing evolution for millions of years for the sake of efficiency. If anyone knows how to [...]... Read more »
Andrew Adamatzky, & Jeff Jones. (2009) Road planning with slime mould: If Physarum built motorways it would route M6/M74 through Newcastle. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. arXiv: 0912.3967v1
Katifori, E., Szöllősi, G., & Magnasco, M. (2010) Damage and Fluctuations Induce Loops in Optimal Transport Networks. Physical Review Letters, 104(4). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.048704
Tero A, Takagi S, Saigusa T, Ito K, Bebber DP, Fricker MD, Yumiki K, Kobayashi R, & Nakagaki T. (2010) Rules for biologically inspired adaptive network design. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5964), 439-42. PMID: 20093467
- February 5, 2010
- 06:53 AM
- 143 views
Classic paper: Montagues and Capulets in Science
by Duncan Hull in O'Really?
In preparation for a joint seminar I’ll be doing with Midori Harris here at the EBI, here’s a classic paper [1,2] on the social problems of building biomedical ontologies. This paper is worth reading (or re-reading) because it makes lots of relevant points about the use and abuse of research and how people misunderstand each [...]... Read more »
Goble, C., & Wroe, C. (2004) The Montagues and the Capulets. Comparative and Functional Genomics, 5(8), 623-632. DOI: 10.1002/cfg.442
- February 5, 2010
- 02:37 AM
- 139 views
10 Websites With The Best Information on Depression
by Dr Shock in Dr Shock MD PhD
After searching for websites about depression (‘‘depression,’’ ‘‘depression treatment,’’ and ‘‘depression help’’) with a popular search engine: Google, the authors of this work carefully examined the websites. The websites were evaluated on accountability, interactivity, esthetics, readability and content quality. They also used the brief DISCERN as a content quality indicator for general consumers. They found [...]
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Zermatten, A., Khazaal, Y., Coquard, O., Chatton, A., & Bondolfi, G. (2010) Quality of web-based information on depression. Depression and Anxiety. DOI: 10.1002/da.20665
- February 4, 2010
- 11:59 AM
- 102 views
VarScan 2 Released on SourceForge
by Daniel Koboldt in Massgenomics
Accurate variant detection in massively parallel sequencing data is a significant bioinformatics challenge. Not only do new sequencers offer unprecedented breadth (whole genome) and depth (30x or more), but they suffer coverage biases and error rates that make variant calling difficult. Last year, we published VarScan, our in-house algorithm for SNP and indel detection on [...]... Read more »
Koboldt DC, Chen K, Wylie T, Larson DE, McLellan MD, Mardis ER, Weinstock GM, Wilson RK, & Ding L. (2009) VarScan: variant detection in massively parallel sequencing of individual and pooled samples. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 25(17), 2283-5. PMID: 19542151
- February 4, 2010
- 03:51 AM
- 134 views
Forty years of hackers at the movies
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
There are two definitions of “hacker” the first is the one we geeks mean when we call someone a hacker – a person skilled in using technology, particularly computers, who enjoys understanding the inner workings of that technology, perhaps for personal education. The second is the colloquial definition that refers to someone engaged in breaking [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tech TalkForty years of hackers at the movies
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Damian Gordon. (2010) Forty years of movie hacking: considering the potential implications of the popular media representation of computer hackers from 1968 to 2008. Int. J. Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, 2(1/2), 59-87. info:/
- February 3, 2010
- 10:53 AM
- 127 views
Story behind the science: #PLoS Genetics "Evolutionary mirages" paper
by Jonathan Eisen in The Tree of Life
So there is this cool new paper out in PLoS Genetics: Evolutionary Mirages: Selection on Binding Site Composition Creates the Illusion of Conserved Grammars in Drosophila Enhancers. and I have wanted to write about it for a week or so. You see, the paper is about something I have been interested in for most of my career - how the particular processes by which mutations occur can sometimes be biased (i.e., some types of mutations are more common than others) and that these biases can create high........ Read more »
Lusk, R., & Eisen, M. (2010) Evolutionary Mirages: Selection on Binding Site Composition Creates the Illusion of Conserved Grammars in Drosophila Enhancers. PLoS Genetics, 6(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000829
- January 27, 2010
- 11:01 AM
- 139 views
Evolving Robots
by Bryan in Imaging Geek
Creationists often like to claim that complex traits cannot arise from the "simple" processes of mutation and selection. They often claim that these processed are not even observable (even though we've been observing them since we began breeding plants and animals).
Anyone with even a basic grasp of science knows the above claims are pure BS, but not being content with simply being right, some scientists have now gone the extra mile and used evolution to make ROBOTS.
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Floreano, D., & Keller, L. (2010) Evolution of Adaptive Behaviour in Robots by Means of Darwinian Selection. PLoS Biology, 8(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000292
- January 27, 2010
- 05:52 AM
- 133 views
Looking at Peer-to-Peer Optimization Methods
by Tomas Rawlings in CatBot Blog
P2P algorithms can offer robustness and communication efficiency over more centralised GRID methods. So authors compared to p2p algorithms performance searching in large-scale and unreliable networks.
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Balázs Bánhelyi, Marco Biazzini, Alberto Montresor, and Márk Jelasity. (2009) Peer-to-Peer Optimization in Large Unreliable Networks with Branch-and-Bound and Particle Swarms. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, 87-92. info:/
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