ACSE Discussion

It's in your airports, your coffee shops and your libraries: "Free Public WiFi." Despite its enticing name, the network, available in thousands of locations across the United States, does not actually provide access to the Internet. But like a virus, it has spread - and may even be lurking on your computer right now.

Alice is an engaging, introductory programming environment for the creation of animations and games using 3D models. Alice features a drag-and-drop interface that eliminates the frustration of syntax errors for beginning programmers.  This list is for educators who are teaching with Alice or who are considering teaching with Alice (either 2.2 or 3). The purpose of this list is to provide and quick and easy way to ask questions, post ideas and nifty assignments, and generally support all members of the Alice teaching community. 

Supernatural Collective Nouns.  Classes of classes

Iran's nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites throughout the country and is capable of taking over power plants, Iranian media reports said.

Many of us are prone to using the Shazam music-identification service whenever we encounter unfamiliar songs. After all, it's just so easy to whip out our phones, open an app, and know everything about a mystery song in seconds. But how does Shazam gives us all this information so quickly?

Imagine Cup-Solving the Worlds Problems Through Software

How Facebook fixed the site: they turned it off and on again. Literally An unusual database problem at the giant social networking site could only be cured by taking the sort of action you normally take with a misbehaving PC

Though some of the details have changed in the intervening years, the basic principles for evaluating an unknown source remain relevant, I think.

This puzzle is an interactive Coding Duel. Can you write code that matches a secret implementation?

Mozilla is improving the security of its open source Firefox Web browser this week with the help of a feature that originally debuted last year in Microsoft's rival Internet Explorer browser.

Where once there was the geeky passion for the new and novel, now it all looks like echos of the old.  Before there were late nights playing with the latest toys, now it's just getting the darn thing to work.

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A website is a specific web app, hosted on a specific server farm. There is a limited number of big centralized websites, that we all connect to. This is not how the web was intended to be.

Google App Engine enables you to build and host web apps on the same systems that power Google applications. App Engine offers fast development and deployment; simple administration, with no need to worry about hardware, patches or backups; and effortless scalability

The value of Facebook in comparison form.

Sometimes funny, sometimes fascinating, other times shocking!

Analyze what's behind a website or blog.  Great statistics and opportunity for insight.

Techniques like "evercookies" and "device fingerprinting" are new and controversial in the online ad industry, but they're widely used by firms that seek to catch cyber criminals.

From then until now with search engines.

The US was today accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively "killing" its web address just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure.