September 2012 Blog Posts (4)

Pandora and Tom Conrad (CTO)

Have you ever wondered how Pandora works? Listen to this Swampcast interview with Tom Conrad, CTO as he explains Pandora's music genome project.

Added by Michael Levin on September 29, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Nighthacking (via Stephen Chin)

NightHacking Tour

The Road to Devoxx - Oct 29 to Nov 11 2012

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Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Omni Fluent, a free computational linguistics app

Here's an app you'll like - it's called Omni Fluent and…

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Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 11:01am — No Comments

Netbeans in Action

Netbeans is a free integrated development environment and it's not just for Java! You can use it with C++, PHP, JavaScript and Groovy. Check out some of the incredibly cool projects coded using Netbeans…

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Added by Michael Levin on September 25, 2012 at 8:14am — No Comments

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