Communications of the ACM
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January 2011
From Computational Complexity
LICS and TAMC call for papers
Two Call For Papers Announcements: LICS 2011 (Logic in Computer Science) has posted its call-for-papers here. (It was probably posted a while back- the submission deadline is Jan 12, two days from now.) I noticed some people…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of January 10
January 13
Meeting:
The Technical Guidelines Development Committee of the Elections Assistance Commission will meet (continues January 14) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD (also webcast)
January 14
…From Schneier on Security
James Fallows on Political Shootings
So the train of logic is:
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-01-10
School's in for open source advocates Excellent initiative that deserves to be emulated all over the world. If you have any kind of meeting spaces at your company, you could run a similar event for local teenagers in your area…
From Putting People First
Arduino The Documentary. How open source hardware became cheap and fun
When I was working at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, I met Massimo Banzi who embarked on an open source hardware initiative which eventually became the very successful Arduino project. Now, writes the Arduino blog, Rodrigo…
From Putting People First
Cyberspace when you
The Internet promises a kind of immortality. What if your last tweet is the one that defines you for all time? Rob Walker reflects in a long article for the New York Times Magazine. “It
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 January 2011
Yesterday I got the
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Our Institutions are Limited by the Pre-digital Technology
Much of our institutions are limited by the pre-digital technology: (1) It is difficult to constantly re-edit a paper book; (2) without computers, global trade requires perennial currencies ; (3) without information technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing for Rapid Prototyping
A good example of remote 3D 'printing', here of a musical instrument, done by researchers at the MIT Media Lab. A good example of rapid prototyping. We are learning to make more complex things via construction and assembly.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cowan's Auctions Special Collections
Cowan's Auctions, who I have been doing consulting work for, has started to do some online-only timed auctions. This is different from online auctions like eBay, in that Cowan's has expert appraisers in a number of categories…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gender Persuader by Next Stage Evolution
I talked to the the NextStage Evolution analysis folks a few years ago, and they have developed some new methods that deal with gender orientation, see here for some details. This is also discussed in their Linkedin Group. "…
From The Eponymous Pickle
LG Thinq Automates Home Tasks
One of the things we actively looked at in the innovation centers was how changes in home appliances could alter the use of enabling products such as detergents. While it was interesting to think about broad robotic solutions…
From Wild WebMink
? Light In The Dark
Apologies for the silence over the weekend – we’ve been taking a break in Helsinki. Because of it being the darkest part of the year, the city has a week-long night-time festival of light-related art installations, Season of…
From The Noisy Channel
Quo Vadis, Quora?
I know, everyone is sick about hearing about Quora, the community question answering site that is the darling of the blogosphere, and perhaps you fled here from TechCrunch hoping for something different. If so, I apologize. And…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Motion Silences Element Change
A very clever demonstration from the Harvard Vision Lab about how the eye perceives change in moving objects differently from those that are stationary. It is possible that there are applications of this discovery to advertising…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Semantic Enterprise OS to Optimize Performance
Mark Montgomery of Kyield publishes a new white paper: Kyield Executive Briefing, A Semantic Enterprise Operating System to Reduce risk and seize opportunities: How Business Managers can employ a Semantic Enterprise OS to Optimize…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Latest Innovations at Procter
A useful outline of the latest innovations at P&G. Everyone, inside enterprise and out, can be an innovator with open innovation. These examples are excellent.
From BLOG@CACM
The Best Job in the World
Where does software engineer come in a ranked list of jobs?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyberspace after Death
In the NYTimes Mag, an article about deathswitch.com. Immortality in cyberspace, settle scores and make revelations after you are gone? Send out email and alerts after death. At one level a pretty simple thing to do even without…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posterous Groups
I see that the Posterous Blogging system has now added a group capability. Useful for communicating with groups of people via email blog posts. I have mentioned Posterous here before, a simple, easy to use blogging system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Network Design
Recently in SpingerLink, book on Supply Network Design, by Hoda Davarzani and Shabnam Rezapour. An initial look shows some useful parts.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Biggest Squid Ever
It's an oil field:
Brazil's state-run Petrobras confirmed Wednesday that oil fields recently discovered offshore contained 8.3 billion barrels of recoverable crude and gas -- and said the biggest field was being renamed "Lula…From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Real Price of Gas
In Carpe Diem, an examination of the real price of gasoline. Cheaper today in the US than in 1920. Market driven innovation works.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Surprising Power of the Hive Mind
Have you ever heard of the alternate reality game I Love Bees? It was designed as a game to be played by a very large number of people who would form a collective intelligence (also known in popular culture as a hive mind). The…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Women in technology conferences and women's rights: The Disconnect
From The Eponymous Pickle
Will Touch Screens Kill the Keyboard?
I thought of just this point while traveling this week. I learned touch typing in High School. My phone lets me do lots of new styles of communicating. I would not use it to type a book, but it sure is convenient. So does…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need Help? I am Available.
Wanted to remind my readers that I am a consultant. I have over thirty years of experience with major companies and the US government. I have saved companies many millions of dollars in costs and led a number of major innovation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictors Group on Linkedin
The LinkedIn Groups Predictors group has opened: I am pleased to announce that, as the owner of this group, I have just switched us to an open discussion group. All future discussions will be fully visible, searchable, and shareable…
From The Noisy Channel
No More Quora Invites
Over the past days, I have been inundated with requests for Quora invites. I realize that I brought this upon myself my making my blog the top hit on Google for [quora invite] — though it seems I’m at least down to the #2 slot…
From Schneier on Security
The Social Dynamics of Terror
Nineteenth-century anarchists promoted what they called the "propaganda of the deed," that is, the use of violence as a symbolic action to make a larger point, such as inspiring the masses to undertake revolutionary…