Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2011
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-04
ACTA blog by FFII Useful reference point for information about the progress of ACTA, worth bookmarking. (tags: ACTA FFII Blog) The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent: Get Sued When You File A Patent You almost never hear about IBM's…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup News January 20111
Are you back at school yet? Hope you had a good holiday break. I know I did. The other day I got the Imagine Cup newsletter via email and thought that this might be a good time to share some of the competitive opportunities that…
From The Noisy Channel
So You Like Big Data
The increasing volume of data that we generate as a species is a story so overplayed as to have become trite. Indeed, a vast amount of this data is in the public domain, including data from the full text and common ngrams of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Scientists
In the Noisy Channel: About data scientists, what they hve been doing lately and their relationships to the increasing amounts of data all of us have been generating.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ads thet Changed the World
BBC on six ads that changed the world.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Algorithmic Thinking and Computational Linguistics
The Algorithms and Linguistics page (http://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/fire/naclo/) on The FIRE Project website is a site that introduces younger students to computer science and linguistics. Rather than focusing on programming…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Pseudocontext in Computer Science
Can you imagine a programming assignment or example where "common sense and real-world knowledge are not needed"? Math teacher (and now PhD student in education) Dan Meyer proposed that many math problems fit into this category…
From Computational Complexity
What is a breakthrough? Lets have an intelligent discussion!!!!!!
In 2010 this blog announced the following Breakthrough!!!! results: (Listed chronologically.)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snap a Picture, Save a Stream
Creek Watch. A simple Smart Water effort via IBM uses a mobile phone application to gather data about stream conditions. Simple smart sensor application. It does make sense to construct an initial data gathering and sensor application…
From Schneier on Security
Polar Bears Destroying Hidden Cameras
Watch the video.
What valuable security lessons does this teach?
EDITED TO ADD (1/3): And why aren't the polar bears destroying the hidden cameras that are filming the polar bears destroying the hidden cameras?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More About PCAST
As we
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-03
World condemns UK control orders And rightly so. They are as bad as Guantanmo, punishment without end for people accused of being athreat without conviction and with secret evidence. The fact the Lib-Dems have not done away with…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 January 2011
Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to a good start. I know mine is. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Earth Project Seeks to Simulate Everything
From the BBC: Quite a huge undertaking. Including always problematic aspects of human behavior ... " ... Nicknamed the Living Earth Simulator, the project aims to advance the scientific understanding of what is taking place…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developing Robots for the Emergency Room
In CACM: Developing Robots for the hospital emergency room. I have worked on simulations of an operating room, which would be a good first step for this.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Daily
Newly discovered: The Neuromarketing Daily.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Networks Can Tell us About the World
Good overview video about using networks to understand systems they describe. Talk given at the Santa Fe Institute. The 2010 Ulam Lecture.Networks and the World by Mark Newman 2010-09-15 Our Small World: How Networks ofNetworks…
From Wild WebMink
Giving Up Yahoo
Yahoo Messenger is the only IM network I use where I am bothered daily by spam-porn-bots attempting to add me to their contact lists. Some days there are as many as 10 requests waiting when I log in. I don’t know what it is about…
From Wild WebMink
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-02
Facebook Close To Naming Sun Microsystems Campus As New Headquarters The new "you've got no privacy, get over it" moves in. I wonder who will get my old offices? (tags: Facebook Sun Privacy MenloPark) Twitter Reports 300 DMCA…
From The Eponymous Pickle
100 Things to Watch
The Global Advertising Agency Jay Walter Thompson has put out a slide show on the 100 things to watch in 2011. Provocative and interesting.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Custom QR Codes
An explosion of interest in using QR codes this past year. A Mashable piece on how to create your own custom QR codes. In the comment there is a good point about relying on a thrid part to redirect a code. Makes sense to think…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
My Most Read Posts of 2010
For the most part I want to focus on the future and not the past. But I did want to take one look back at traffic to this blog over the course of 2010. I have rough metrics for both web traffic and RSS/subscriber traffic. I hope…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Analytics Surge
My UK colleague sends along a link to a note about the increasing use of in memory data management, and it's implications to data infrastructure and center design. The demands of real time analytics and even the new dimension…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Five surprising changes in 2010
I was among the first Canadians to own a Kindle. I justified my purchase as “research”. The Kindle was not satisfying for anything but fiction and I predicted it would be obsolete within a few years. Then I got an iPad and everything…
From Wild WebMink
? Crossing Over
2010 was a year of change for me, with many things I’m glad are past and with the roots of new things I am looking forward to exploring and growing. For 2011 I am full of hope: that we will see successful new ways of doing business…