Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2009
From CSDiary
Carlos Guestrin Wins IJCAI
Carlos Guestrin, a faculty member in Machine Learning, Computer Science, and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, is the recipient of the IJCAI’09 Computers and Thought Award, one of the most prestigious…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Books
The future of books and knowledge, one of my favorite topics. From the NYRB: Google and the Future of Books. See also my recent comments on book scanning progress, also covered in the article, which I continue to be amazed at…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Manager Blogs
Dave Knox, P&G Brand Manager, has an interesting personal blog.
From Putting People First
Kitchen Budapest visit
I just posted an article on Core77 about my visit yesterday to Kitchen Budapest. Check it out. KiBu will be presenting three projects at the upcoming Lift09 conference. Check also KiBu’s One Year book (pdf -28 mb), which includes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Announces New BI
An overview presentation of changes in Microsoft's Business Intelligence roadmap.
From Putting People First
Silvia Zimmermann from Switzerland is new UPA President
The German and Swiss websites of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) report that Silvia Zimmermann from Switzerland is the new president of the UPA. Although the global UPA website has not yet been updated, UPA Voice…
From Putting People First
Revolution, Facebook-style
A long feature article in the New York Times Magazine explores whether social networking can turn disaffected young Egyptians into a force for democratic change. “Freedom of speech and the right to assemble are limited in Egypt…
From Putting People First
The Publius Project
The Publius Project is an initiative of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, with the cryptic byline: “a collection of essays and conversations about constitutional moments on the Net”. “The project brings…
From Putting People First
?oyfriend
Worldchanging published an original piece of science fiction by author Madeline Ashby. The story imagines a series of futuristic technologies (including smart tags, rapid prototyping and graphene memory) and explores ways their…
From Putting People First
Mission 2.0: advice for arts & cultural organisations from the social web
Rohan Gunatillake of NESTA Connect highlights three principal drivers as being behind the new wave of online activity: the low barriers to participation, the thirst for conversation and the power of collaboration. “Let’s look…
From Putting People First
Design research methods for experience design
In the current edition of UXmatters Michael Hawley (VP Experience Design at Mad*Pow Media Solutions LLC) reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of two existing alternative design approaches user-centered design and genius design…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Tribes
Seth Godin Presentation:: How to Build a Tribe.-
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Is Open Source Software a Choice For My School?
Computing classes in our schools cost money. We have PCs running Windows. We need programming languages as well as application software for basic functionality such as word processing, presentations, spread sheeting, database…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Horizon Graphs
Stephen Few writes about horizon graphs for time series designed for visualization and comparison: " ... horizon graphs can meaningfully display 50 or so full sets of time-series values on a single screen or page in a way that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience Boot Camp
Get your boots out, you can be fully trained this summer.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Britannica Prepares to Create Community
In a perhaps inevitable change, Britannica is planning a major change to the way it gathers knowledge, making it more wiki-like. Establishing a community of experts, editors and users that will together add and verify information…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What comes first, theory or experiments?
In “my research process“, I explain how I proceed to produce research papers. As a comment to my most recent post, Peter Turney wrote: I don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics vs Gut Feelings
An Accenture study says that 60% of major decisions are made with analytics and 40% are made with gut judgement. Business leaders think that more attention should be paid to analytics. Plus some other related statistics.Blink…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I write bad papers (sometimes)
My Write good papers paper gives a fairly reliable recipe to write good papers. I think it is difficult to good wrong if you follow this recipe. How is it, then, that I can still write bad papers? My experience is as follows…
From insideHPC
Rackable Introduces MicroSlice
Rackable Systems has introduced its latest series of dense server platform based on some new technology they have developed, deemed MicroSlice.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Large Lectures Replaced
In the NYT, an article about how universities like MIT are replacing " .... traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning. Last fall, after years of experimentation…
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2009-01-21 [del.icio.us]
- SapphireSteel :: Ruby On Rails With Flex Ruby in Steel :: Ruby On Rails programming in Visual Studio
From Putting People First
95% of mobile users would use more data services if setup were easier
Press release: Complexity is preventing uptake and usage of mobile applications and services, according to a survey of US and UK consumers commissioned by mobile device management (MDM) specialist Mformation. 95% of consumers…
From Putting People First
BUG+IDEO blog
IDEO just announced a quick open user interface exploration project with Bug Labs, that will run for a little over a week on a new public blog BUG+IDEO. An open project between BugLabs and IDEO, this deep-dive exploration of…
From Putting People First
EU President Barroso discusses how to boost
Yesterday President Barroso met social innovation experts and stakeholders in Brussels, following a workshop organised by the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) on social innovation, reports the European Commission. “The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Roundtable Talks
A bit dated to mention this, but there is a talkshow format set of talks about technologies. Includes one on natural language translation that I posted about some time ago. Good to follow.
From Putting People First
Book: Designing for the Digital Age
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services [amazon] by Kim Goodwin, Alan Cooper Wiley (March 2009) Paperback: 768 pages ISBN: 978-0-470-22910-1 Abstract Whether you
From Putting People First
Bad usability calendar
The (in)famous Bad Usability Calendar has featured 48 classic design mistakes in 13 different languages since 2005. Now it is available in its 2009 edition (with versions in English, German, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian and Polish)…
From Putting People First
Top kitchen toy? The cellphone
According to the New York Times’ Julia Moskin, the cellphone has transformed the kitchen lives of many Americans. “It has become the kitchen tool of choice for chefs and home cooks. They use it to keep grocery lists, find recipes…
From insideHPC
IBM reports record
Interesting story from The Register on why Big Blue is even smugger than usual right now There’s a lot of bad economic news floating around, but there wasn’t much coming out of Armonk, New York, today as IBM reported its financial…