Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2010
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making a Heatmap
A good piece on constructing your own Heatmap in Flowingdata. Heatmaps are a way to visualize and quickly scan the values and fixed time relationships of many variables. A Good example: The S&P 500 heatmap, a small portion shown…
From Schneier on Security
ATM Skimmer
Neat pictures. I would never have noticed it, which is precisely the point.
From Putting People First
Urban sensing via mobile phones, an ARUP project
Arup Australasia has published a three-part technical overview on its research blog of its ‘urban sensing via mobile phones’ project. The research project, in collaboration with the UTS Centre for Real-Time Information Networks…
From Putting People First
FT on cultural differences in Chinese internet use
Western companies are struggling to bridge the growing gap created by the evolution of a cyberspace with Chinese characteristics. Kathrin Hille explains some of the cultural (and political) differences in today’s Financial Times…
From Putting People First
Report: Booting up mobile health
Mobile health is emerging at the intersection of dynamic changes in mobility patterns, health care delivery, and new mobile technologies and networks. New technologies and the services they enable will be just one piece of a…
From Putting People First
Articles on Danish design research
The Danish Centre for Design Research (DCDR) is an umbrella organisation under the Danish Ministry of Culture for the design research that takes place at the Aarhus School of Architecture, The Danish Design School, Designskolen…
From The Eponymous Pickle
John Nash Documentary
Always interesting Mind Hacks points to a recording of the PBS documentary on game theorist John Nash. Much more informative than the Hollywoodized Beautiful Mind.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsico Optimizes Trade Promotions
In Consumer Goods Technology: Integrated with the back office, CAS 8 is expected to provide a comprehensive view of account and channel performance...
From Schneier on Security
Wrasse Punish Cheaters
The bluestreak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) operates an underwater health spa for larger fish. It advertises its services with bright colours and distinctive dances. When customers arrive, the cleaner eats…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lessons from a Happiness Machine
An article about Coke's new Happiness Machine viral video made me think further about the dynamics of engaging shoppers in the store. Its the vending machine whimsically taken to new levels of dynamics and offerings. See my related…
From Computational Complexity
Two Theorems this blog missed
I warned Lance to wait until early Jan to post 2009 Complexity Year in Review. It was my fear that by posting it on Dec 28, 2009 he may miss out if someone proves P &ne NP on Dec 29, 30, or 31st during 2009.
That did not …From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Bringing Computer Science to Let's Talk Science
One of my major goals when I joined Let's Talk Science was to bring more computer science activities to the program. They already had a lot of awesome stuff for natural sciences from biology to chemistry, and I had been adding…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
You know your research is original when
Many consider Frank Hebert’s Dune the most important work of science-fiction ever written. Consider that Star Wars is just a variation on Dune. Yet, it was rejected by more than twenty publishers, before being finally published…
From Schneier on Security
The Problems of Profiling at Security Checkpoints
Good article.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming as a super power
From the time I wrote my first computer program about 38 years ago as a college student there has always been a bit of magic about the process. A bit of a super power sort of feeling if you will. Back in those days the average…
From Putting People First
Real-time video in 2020
Skype commissioned the Institute for the Future to research and start a conversation about the future of real-time video communication and what will it feel like to live and work in a world where real-time video is ubiquitous…
From Putting People First
If your kids are awake, they
The average young American now spends practically every waking minute
From Putting People First
Nokia
In recognition of the importance that good design and user experience plays in creating successful products and services, Forum Nokia has renewed and extended it support available for those looking to improve the quality of their…
From My Biased Coin
Housework
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article up titled Time Crunch for Female Scientists : They Do More Housework Than Men. Worth reading, understanding, and discussing, although I admit some trepidation, as such posts generally…
From The Eponymous Pickle
HP's Wall of Touch
Another example of 'walls' of information, which we experimented with extensively. Think of it as also useful for creating certain '2D environments' like the store shelf, for understanding consumer behavior there. Worked with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Meaning of Client Silence
Peter Bregman on silence. Have we all not experienced this?. What is the useful reaction to client silence as the most dangerous form of feedback?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Company IT at NRF
Storefrontbacktalk reports on a number of big company IT leaders at NRF and their innovation views.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
It's a Great Day for CS!
Ever since Computer Science Education Week, I couldn't help but notice all the positive signs that have come through my email about what a great time it is to teach computer science. Maybe it was the promotional efforts behind…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packing Intelligence in a Tweet
James Kobielus looking at the business intelligence value of Twitter. I still see Twitter as an alert leading to more information. Sometimes all of the intelligence can be included in the alert itself, often not.
From BLOG@CACM
Are There Too Many IT Jobs or Too Many IT Workers?
The latest US Bureau of Labor Statistics report is out, and it says that computing is booming! So why are there so many IT workers complaining about being laid-off?
From Computational Complexity
Should CCC2012 be at the North Pole?
The last few posts on ICS in China have lead to off-topic (though maybe they were not off topic) comments on whether we should have conferences in countries who oppress human rights. Here is a post where such comments will be…
From Schneier on Security
Privacy Violations by Facebook Employees
I don't know if this is real, but it seems perfectly reasonable that all of Facebook is stored in a huge database that someone with the proper permissions can access and modify. And it also makes sense that developers and others…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft at TCEA
In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading down to Austin Texas for the annual TCEA conference. This is one of the biggest and best (we are talking Texas after all) educational technology conferences going. I hope to attend the TA/CT…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics for Humanitarian Logistics
Just added to Analytics Magazine, a short article and podcast on the use of logistics analytics in the Haiti earthquake. Linked to the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Tech. Don't know too much about this, but will…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 18
January 20
Hearing: The House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act, taking testimony from business groups. 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn Building
Meeting: The Information…