Geeking with Greg

I built Code Monster and Code Maven to get more kids interested in programming. Why is programming important? Computers are a powerful t...

I finally got a chance to read " Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click ", a paper out of Google presented at the recent VLDB...

More of what caught my attention recently: Android now has 72.4% of the mobile market, up from 52.5% a year ago ( [1] ) Google's n...

I recently launched Code Maven from Crunchzilla . It helps teens learn a little about what they can do if they learn more about programming...

What caught my attention recently: The latest Google and Microsoft earnings show damage from a tech disruption, a shift to mobile that is ...

I recently launched Code Monster from Crunchzilla . It helps parents teach a little programming to their kids. A lot of parents want th...

I just bet Professor Daniel Lemire $100 that they won't. At least, any time soon. The specific terms of the bet are, "In some ...

Some of what has caught my attention lately: Pump and dump, both at the Facebook and Groupon IPOs. ( [1] [2] ) "The thrilling demis...

Marissa Mayer as CEO of Yahoo may be a test of a new style of executive leadership, the optimizing CEO. She is not the first computer scien...

A fun upcoming KDD 2012 paper out of Microsoft, "Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Five Puzzling Outcomes Explained" ( PD...

What has caught my attention lately: The coming bandwidth explosion, by 2015, a zetabyte per year, "the equivalent of all movies ever...

I want to share more of the ideas I've been exploring. First, let me start with this, an early version of a game I'm calling Stick ...

More of what has caught my attention recently: $1B for Instagram was silly and caused by fear ( [1] [2] [3] [4] ), but it is impressive t...

What has caught my attention lately: Videos showing Windows 8 is horribly painful for most people, looks likely to be another Windows Vista-...

A remarkably detailed paper, "Web-Scale User Modeling for Targeting" ( PDF ), will be presented at WWW 2012 that gives many insigh...

More of what has caught my attention lately: Laptops with Kinect sensors are coming. Worth paying attention to, gesturing in air to issue c...

Some of what has caught my attention recently: Security guru Bruce Schneier predicts "smart phones are going to become the primary plat...

A recent paper out of Yahoo, "Discovering URLs through User Feedback" ( ACM ), describes the value from using what pages people br...

A recent paper out of Google, "Extracting Patterns From Location History" ( PDF ), is interesting not only for confirming that Goo...

Even more of what has caught my attention recently: Spooky but cool research: "Electrical pulses to the brain and muscles ... activate ...