Saint Bill: But where are his billions going?

jtullio contributed the item Saint Bill: But where are his billions going? and commented 'Article with some details about the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. Mostly glowing praise, but a few words are in there about how the foundation has, in the past, eschewed low-tech solutions for problems like malaria (bed nets, insecticides) in favor of more scientific pursuits such as vaccines.'.
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Index of /~jimlin/personal/photos/mythbusters

jtullio contributed the item Index of /~jimlin/personal/photos/mythbusters and commented 'For those of you familiar with the show "Mythbusters", I saw those guys talk at IBM Almaden yesterday. Jimmy Lin took some photos. You may want to watch the 24MB video, which is a sort of outtake on one of the shows (Warning: it is mildly gruesome). The later photos are of a live demonstration to compare what chills beer most quickly: ice, ice water, salted ice water, CO2 fire extinguisher, or liquid nitrogen (I listed them in ascending order of effectiveness).'.
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Data Privacy Course, Term Project Fair

jtullio contributed the item Data Privacy Course, Term Project Fair and commented 'Listing of the end-of-semester projects for the Data Privacy course here at CMU. The theme is the potential of surveillance using public webcams. Most involve finding peak times for either human or automotive traffic.'.
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Jason Hong's Confabulations: Web 2.0 and Research

jeremy contributed the item Jason Hong's Confabulations: Web 2.0 and Research and commented 'Timely opinion piece given my paper's rejection :) Here's my rebuttal to this opinion in two sentences: (1) Realizing ideas can be research too. (2) HCI is at least partly in the business of realization: enabling others to realize and use new technology.'.
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Official Google Research Blog

jeremy contributed the item Official Google Research Blog and commented 'Google Research now has a blog; check out their most recent entry about CHI.'.
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Experts see computers getting bigger and smaller at the same time

jtullio contributed the item Experts see computers getting bigger and smaller at the same time and commented 'Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on the 50th anniversary of CMU's CS department (and the HCII's 12th) that features some quotes by Beth and other notables.'.
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Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Facebook and the Campus Cops

jeremy contributed the item Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Facebook and the Campus Cops and commented 'Interesting stories about how Facebook is being used to solve campus crimes. Seems that privacy concerns may correlate with age and/or use of blogs/social networking sites.'.
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