Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2009
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Challengers
Good Businessweek piece : Can Google Stay on Top of the Web? As Bing, Facebook, Twitter and less well-known upstarts nip at its heels, Google has hundreds of wizards racing to come up with smarter answers. Their new Wave package…
From The Noisy Channel
Software Patents: A Personal Story
From BLOG@CACM
Grace Hopper Keynote 2: Fran Berman
Fran Berman's keynote address at the Grace Hopper Conference
From BLOG@CACM
Final Thoughts About Grace Hopper Conference
Just a few final thoughts and pointers to projects and resources.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alternatives to the CKO
In his blog Mark Montgomery discusses alternatives to the CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer) One of the comments in the thread there points to the fact that there are very few CKOs around. There was an attempt by the library systems…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon
Lio.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sensible hashing of variable-length strings is impossible
Consider the problem of hashing an infinite number of keys
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gathering Knowledge with Games
Another capability we studied in the enterprise, here slashdot article talks about patents that IBM has applied for in this via a platform for acquiring knowlege. Like most patents of this type this appears strained. Games…
From BLOG@CACM
Student Research Competition at Grace Hopper
Highlights of the top six posters/presentations at the Student Research Competition
From Schneier on Security
"Security Theater in New York City"
For the U.N. General Assembly:
For those entranced by security theater, New York City is a sight to behold this week. A visit to one of the two centers of the action -- the Waldorf Astoria, where the presidents of China, Russia…From Computational Complexity
On Being Narrow
wonders why everyone always assumes all he can do is quantum computing? Oh, because that's all he's done. Time to do something new?What David (aka the Quantum Pontiff) says can apply …
From BLOG@CACM
Grace Hopper Keynote 1: Megan Smith
Megan Smith keynote at Grace Hopper
From BLOG@CACM
Smartphones and Health Systems Research at Intel Seattle
The ubiquity of smartphones and their increasing ability to collect and transmit information will lead the way for the next advances in health monitoring and improvement.
From Putting People First
Donald Norman on co-creation as a
Donald Norman recently gave a keynote address at the “21st Century Transmedia Innovation Symposium” in Seoul, Korea. “Normal dictionaries do not have the word ‘transmedia,’” he says, “but Wikipedia does. That definition introduced…
From Putting People First
Panoremo, a tool to assess the emotional experience of environments
As part of his Design for Interaction MSc. at the TU Delft, David G
From My Biased Coin
Semantic Communication, Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan gave a colloquium at Harvard yesterday on his work on Universal Semantic Communication and Goal-Oriented Communication (both with Brendan Juba, the latter also with Oded Goldreich). The papers are available here,…
From Putting People First
Touchpoint Issue 2
The second issue of Touchpoint, the sdn’s Service Design Journal, is out. Entitled “Health and Service Design”, this brand-new issue features articles of Service Design and/or healthcare experts such as Julia Schaeper, Lynne…
From Apophenia
Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
Over the last 18 months, I have had the great honor of serving as a Commissioner on the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities. Today, it gives me great pleasure to announce that we have released our report…
From Wild WebMink
Truth In Labelling
When I wrote about Organic Software recently, I was largely eulogising the community dimension of open source software. But there's another way in which the idea of "organic software" is helpful to understanding the dynamic…
From Schneier on Security
Proving a Computer Program's Correctness
This is interesting:
Professor Gernot Heiser, the John Lions Chair in Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Engineering and a senior principal researcher with NICTA, said for the first time a team had been able…From BLOG@CACM
Grace Hopper Conference Opening Session: Part 1
Grace Hopper Conference--some highlights on who attends and what it's like.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Innovation
A guide to implementing open innovation. ' ... The report,
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A Simplified Open Publishing Manifesto
Bill Gasarch is proposing a manifesto on Open Scholarship. What a great idea! Imagine thousands of researchers openly agreeing on practices making research more effective! We could change the culture of scientific research without…
From Computational Complexity
The Journal Manifesto 2.0
Reminder: FOCS early registration deadline today. Go hereBelow is a revised version of the Journal Manifesto. I restate the key sentence from my last post and then redo the manifesto in light of the (very enlightening!) comments…
From BLOG@CACM
Opening Day of Grace Hopper Conference
A panoply of posters welcome attendees to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
From The Noisy Channel
Guest Post: A Plan For Abusiveness
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-01
Calling certain software "open source" is like the people selling this fisherman's cottage calling it remote. Yes, there is truth in the statement, but there are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cart Device at Bloom
Cart mounted shopping devices continue to be tested. Here again the Concierge device, previously reported on here, is in limited time test at Food Lion's Bloom stores. It is advertised as a ' ... GPS for your shopping cart ..…
From My Biased Coin
GPU News
Since I've now co-authored a paper on GPUs, I'm now "in-the-loop" (thanks to my co-author John Owens) on the news of NVIDIA's announcement of its "next generation" of GPUs, code-named Fermi. (To be out in 2010? CompetitorsLarrabee…
From My Biased Coin
Justice!
Harvard is putting the lectures (and other materials) online for a fantastic course, Justice, taught by Michael Sandel. It's a class on moral reasoning, exactly the sort of thing you'd hope a college freshman or sophomore would…