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 The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Use of Social Networks
IBM provides some interesting work in this area. I spoke to some of their people involved in this work last year and was impressed how they were leveraging all forms of social network services. Via an IBMResearch Twit.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Resources for Addressing Equity Issues in 2009
As we begin a new year, we can only imagine what new technological innovations will be created this year that will change the way people live their lives. In just the last decade, we've witnessed how computer science has impacted…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Irrational Product Placement
I am a late student to product placement. Around since 1896 when Sunlight Soap was featured in a number of Lumiere silent movies. A frame at the right. Here is one blatant example. More on YouTube. I had always thought that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Leads Patents
IBM Leads US patent count 16th year in a row, openly publishes patent innovations, seeking to "...balance open and proprietary innovation ... " .
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Science and Technology Have Piece of Stimulus Pie
While the stimulus has not been finalized, the House Appropriations Committee has circulated a summary of the major components. From the committee summary:
Scientific Research ? National Science Foundation: $3 billion, including…From CSDiary
Tuomas Sandholm Named ACM Fellow
I’m writing today from the Google campus in Mountain View. However, the news today isn’t about Google — it’s about Tuomas Sandholm. The Association for Computing Machinery has just named him an ACM Fellow. Tuomas is cited for…
From insideHPC
Just say
Feature article at HPCwire with a great title, “HPC@Intel: When to Say No to Parallelism.” As a software developer, you are faced with a range of options as you decide whether and how to modify your applications for parallel…
From insideHPC
Eli Lilly using cloud
Here’s a pointer to an article that looks interesting that I found at HPCwire. Eli Lilly’s Dave Powers talks compellingly about how the pharmaceuticals company is using cloud computing services to support its scientists with…
From insideHPC
Rackable lays off
Joe Landman alerted us to the weight reduction plan at Rackable following a Q4 sales downturn. From the story at El Reg Going public has not been as much fun for boutique server maker Rackable Systems as the idea must have sounded…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Planet Blog
I just discovered IBM's Building a Smarter Planet Blog: Instrumented, Interconnected, Intelligent. Which was started up last November. Following.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Data
An example of Steganography, which hides data. While encryption " ... obscures the meaning of a message, but it does not conceal the fact that there is a message ... ". This application can hide a file of data in a picture.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics
I have played in the space of analytic modeling for thirty years. It surprised me about five years ago when I was approached by people saying that they planned to start doing predictive analytics. I was confused. From my perspective…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Claremont report on database research
Every few years, the database research community prepares reports listing the most promising research directions. The previous one was called the Lowell report, and I was inspired by it. The latest one is called the Claremont…
From Putting People First
People-centric sensing in the city of the near future
More on people-centric sensing, this time by LIFT’s Fabien Girardin, and it’s as if he is taking the Nokia paper I just wrote about one step further: “In the past, sensors networks in cities has been limited to fixed sensors,…
From Putting People First
Sensing the world with mobile devices
The Nokia Research Center published a short paper on participatory mobile sensing that I like very much because of its human-centred approach: By putting mobile phones in the hands of human participants, we can take advantage…
From Springenwerk Blog
Barcode Recognition with Google's ZXing on the Mac with TIFF Support
Have you checked out Google's great open source barcode recognition library called ZXing ("zebra crossing")? It's really powerful, free and (halfway) platform independent since it's written in Java. If you're a Mac user, it might…
From Putting People First
Experientia and European research projects
Experientia is currently planning to participate in a number of European research projects, and is looking for partners and interesting collaboration opportunities. Next week Experientia partners Michele Visciola and myself (Mark…
From Putting People First
Indian usability conference tackled digital divide and user experience design
As part of the World Usability Day 2008, the Department of Information Technology at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (V.I.I.T.), Pune (India) hosted on 27-28 November the Conference on Advances in Usability Engineering…
From Putting People First
Interfaces Magazine
Thanks to Vodafone’s Anxo Cereijo-Roibas, I just discovered Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS). Interaction provides an organisation…
From insideHPC
NASA awards computational portal
Earlier this week NASA announced it had awarded a
From Putting People First
This is iQ
Matthew Neal contacted me today about a design challenge Toyota recently gave to students at the Royal College of Art London to create a household item that represents intelligent urban living. “We recently conducted interviews…
From Putting People First
Interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo
Peter Merholz, President of Adaptive Path, has published the first part of an interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo. “Margret Schmidt’s extensive experience heading up design at TiVo…
From Putting People First
Seeing other people
Social networking has become an integral part of our lives, but how much say will users have in what they do with social networking and what it looks like? This is the central question in an article by Jesse Ashlock in Print…
From Putting People First
IBM research on the use of social software in the workplace
Both Penny Edwards (Headshift) and Bill Ives (Fast Forward) report on recent IBM research on social software in the marketplace: To what extent does your company facilitate social networking between employees split by geographical…
From Putting People First
Don
I find articles with titles like this difficult to digest. What if you are under 30? And especially if the article is filled with banalities - partly put in the mouth of the “authority” of professor Mark Bauerlein - like: The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lindstrom, Buyology Inc and Brand Image
I attended Martin Lindstrom's talk at Brand Image in Cincinnati today. This was the third time I had been in on Lindstrom presentations. He pointed out that much of his work is still research, but very useful in better understanding…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Beauty of Computing is Not in Problem Solving
As part of a recent discussion on the Rebooting Computing listserv Rosemary Michelle Simpson made the following comments in response to a discussion about the discovering the beauty of computer science. We thought her comments…
From insideHPC
New Sun HPC software stack
This in from Sun’s HPC Watercooler The Giraffe team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2 of our HPC Software Stack for Linux. Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition is an integrated open-source software solution for Linux…
From insideHPC
PSC Scores an HP
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [PSC] has announced that they have made arrangements with HP to install and make available a new cluster.
From insideHPC
LSU Names New Director of
LSU has officially announced they have named Dr. Honggao Liu its new Director for High Performance Computing.