Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Herb Simon's Last Lecture
From the currently ongoing AAAI conference via Jim Spohrer. On Herb Simon. I was most most interested in his work about systematizing decision making and AI, still very relevant in the new cognitive world. Some discussionHerb…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Surface Hub
Saw a demonstration of this last week, Microsoft Surface Hub, with the aim to make it useable from phones to large touch screens using the upcoming Windows 10. Beyond conferences, can be used to deliver data directly to multiple…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Big Data is Changing New Product Development
Below is an collaborative webinar featuring two groups I have done work with. And includes Tom Davenport, who included our analytics efforts at Procter & Gamble in his books. I am looking forward to attendingWHAT: How Big…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pivoting on your Business Model
In Entrpreneur: Have not seen this covered before, but some of the recent enterprise changes made me think about it. Some good, simple ideas.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gartner: Mobile Apps will be Hybrid
A Gartner prediction that over 50 percent of Apps will be hybrid by 2016. This question came to mind during the recent announcement of Windows 10 enhancements running on Windows phones. Which of those will also operate on'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
In Radar O'Reilly: More detailed information about the concept and its broader applications.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Knowledge Management Right
In the APQC Blog: Some useful thoughts about knowledge management. KM is still an important topic, but I see it being mentioned less often. Is that because we have access to so much more knowledge now?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Stores Matter
In McKinsey: Stores need to refine how they use their real estate. " ... For decades, the retail industry has followed the same straightforward formula for growth: open new stores. By replicating a proven store format in a new…
From Putting People First
[Book] Beyond Design Ethnography
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Beyond Design Ethnography: How Designers Practice Ethnographic Research Edited by Prof. Nicolas Nova along with Lysianne Léchot-Hirt of HEAD–Genève (CH), and Fabienne Kilchör and Sebastien Fasel (Emphase.ch) Head-Genève, January…
From Schneier on Security
My Conversation with Edward Snowden
Today, as part of a Harvard computer science symposium, I had a public conversation with Edward Snowden. The topics were largely technical, ranging from cryptography to hacking to surveillance to what to do now. Here's the video…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST and EAC Sponsoring Symposium on Voting Systems Technology
The Future of Voting Systems Technology Symposium II will take place February 9-10 at the Department of Commerce headquarters in Washington, D.C. Registration (free) is required and closes on February 3. The symposium is co-sponsored…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Giggling Squid Restaurant
Giggling Squid is a Thai restaurant chain in the UK. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Systematizing Training Tasks for Specific Goals
I just got a promotion from the Kahn Academy pointing to their new iPad App. Now available for download. Always thought it would be a good to systematize the kind of capabilities that Kahn has for topics like math. For example…
From Putting People First
Designing a user experience for wearable devices
Gradinar Razvan discusses some of the questions that UX designers will need to consider when designing for wearables. In particular, he presents the key things that designers should keep in mind when they are designing for a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
User Centered Design
In Wired: Fascinating piece. " ... How the Home Telephone Sparked the User-Centered Design Revolution .... Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door’s height, instead of right…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Look at Apache Spark
A video and technical view intro of the programming capability. Examining. " .... Apache Spark, the open-source, cluster computing framework originally developed in the AMPLab at UC Berkeley and now championed by Databricks…
From Schneier on Security
When Thinking Machines Break the Law
Last year, two Swiss artists programmed a Random Botnot Shopper, which every week would spend $100 in bitcoin to buy a random item from an anonymous Internet black market...all for an art project on display in Switzerland. It…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comment Requirements Changed
Due to increasing Spam in comments, you now need to register to post a comment. In addition, as before, all comments are moderated. Historically this blog has few comments. I still welcome your thoughts, my address can be…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The In-Store Internet of Things
In Retailwire: From research by Cisco. We talked to Cisco when the only connective technology was for this was phone and RFID tags. Everything can and will be connected. Good overview, shows again the need for better standards…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Buys Lift
Late, but of interest. A move in life sciences. " ... Google has acquired Lift Labs, which makes a mechanical spoon for people suffering from tremors, in a move giving Google new technology for combating neurodegenerative…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Tech Trends for 2015: In the Know
A few weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal posted the article, “The Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2015: Gadgets and Ideas With the Best Chance of Making an Impact … and What You Can Do to Prepare for Them.” It offered predictions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Shopping Myths from Data Insight
In McKinsey: An instructive look at UK mobile data:" ... Understanding what matters in mobile is increasingly critical as people become ever more wedded to digital devices. In the United Kingdom, for instance, two out of three…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Leadership Development in a Changing World
My former enterprise is in the news with speculation about who the next CEO will be. It is still mostly promotion from within there. Candidates mentioned for CEO are still all long time employees. How is this changing in aHBR…
From Computational Complexity
There Should be an Algorithm
My high school daughter Molly was reading her Kindle and said "You know how you can choose a word and the Kindle will give you a definition. There should be an algorithm that chooses the right definition to display dependingword…
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research of Davos delegates leads to some striking results
Every January, hundreds of politicians, CEOs, scientific experts, and celebrities gather for their annual meeting in the exclusive Swiss ski resort of Davos to “improve the state of the world.” Yet, the World Economic Forum’s…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft HoloLens Demonstration
Saw a demonstration of Microsoft HoloLens today. An impressive see-through visor that sits on your head and can give you 3-D holographic experiences. Wirelessly. Spatial Audio. Gaze tracking. Gesture and Voice driven. I…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Knowledge Discovery with Unsupervised Learning
Fascinating example using Bayesia's graphical methods. I like how the visualization leads to useful implications of the discovery. Easy to follow example with stock market data. Links to a complete tutorial. Why Stocks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing Book
Cognitive Computing, A Brief Guide for Game Changers by Peter Fingar, just received. I commented on early versions. They write:" ... This book is a concise report on the most noteworthy developments in artificial intelligence…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Robots For Teaching Programming
One of my most popular posts has been a collection of links to block programming (drag and drop programming) tools and languages. The other day it occurred to me that a similar list for programming with robots might be useful…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Product Development and Big Data
Below is an collaborative webinar featuring two groups I have done work with. And includes Tom Davenport, who included our analytics efforts at Procter & Gamble in his books. I am looking forward to attend." ....WHAT: How…