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 Putting People First
Reviewing the
Dan Hill (ARUP) wrote a long review of the ‘Toward the Sentient City’ exhibition curated by Mark Shepard and organised by the Architectural League of New York. “This show does nothing less than delineate a possible future trajectory…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-11
From The Noisy Channel
Faceted Search Book: Now At Half Price!
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Webinars for Professional Development
I have given webinars this fall using WebEx (http://try.webex.com) and Elluminate (http://www.elluminate.com/). I used WebEx during a webinar for Pearson on Alice and Media Computation, and I used Elluminate during a webinar…
From Putting People First
On using design to influence behaviour
Dan Lockton of Brunel University (UK), who runs a blog called Design with Intent, which focuses on strategic design that
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adobe Mobile Offering
I tried the free Adobe offering for the IPhone today. Its a simple set of touch-up capabilities for your pictures. Its the kind of capability that you now expect to have included in any free photo editing capability. It is not…
From Putting People First
The psychology of Google Wave
Most talk about Google Wave is focussed on technology, not people. Tom Simonite attempts to change the discourse with his article in The New Scientist. “The cultural norms that will shape Wave’s future are yet to be established…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Tribalization of Business
SNCR and Deloitte announce the following study of interest, Includes downloadable study and a link to an upcoming webinar on the topic. ' ... Deloitte LLP
From Putting People First
At your service
Damian Kernahan of Proto Partners asks in Fast Thinking, an Australian innovation quarterly, why service organisations don
From Wild WebMink
? Names Matter
"Open core tries to find a middle ground between proprietary software and free software, but it reaps the benefits of neither and inherits the problems of both…
From The Noisy Channel
Google Is Sharpening Its Squares
As some of you may remember, I’m excited about Google Squared, a project I see as a great first step toward exploratory search at a web scale. Yes, I know that Duck Duck Go, Kosmix and others are already taking on this challenge…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squidsoup
Gallery of virtual art.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - October 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 10)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the October issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and free content one month may slip behind a pay wall the next. You…
From Schneier on Security
Pigs Defeating RFID-Enabled Feeding Systems
Pretty clever (for a pig, that is).
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sample Size in Neuromarketing Studies
On of the most contentious issues for studies in the newly emerging field and business of Neuromarketing is sample size. Generally marketing analyses that attempt to understand large populations by sampling that population utilize…
From Putting People First
Wired UK
Here are the five stories that appeared in the special “Digital Cities” feature of Wired UK’s November issue. Words on the street by Adam Greenfield Ubiquitous, networked information will reshape our cities. ‘Sense-able’ urban…
From Computational Complexity
Complexity Vidcast 2
Bill and I battle it out over what should be taught in a complexity course in our new vidcast.
From Schneier on Security
1,000 Cybersecurity Experts
Yesterday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the U.S. needed to hire 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years. Bob Cringly doubts that there even are 1,000 cybersecurity experts out there to hire.
I suppose…From Putting People First
Inside user research at YouTube
User experience researcher Sasha Lubomirsky talks about his work at YouTube: “If you think about watching a video online, it may seem pretty easy. A player, a play/pause button and some content. Done. But what about if the video…
From Putting People First
The city as an interaction platform
Martijn de Waal was at the Picnic 2009 conference in Amsterdam, where he attended the session entitled “The City as an Interaction Platform”: Cities have always been about providing frameworks of services to improve the quality…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Ads for Phones
In E-Commerce Times. Google had developed a new piece of code for phones with HTTP browsers to allow the display of advanced ads on mobile platforms. Mobile capabilities march on.
From Putting People First
Toward an integrated approach to product strategy and design
San Francisco-based user experience consultancy Montparnas started a three-part series on the relationship between product development and user experience design. “Product development and user experience design are two fields…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-10-09
Very interesting paper from none other than Pia Waugh on the subject of constructing a software freedom scorecard. I dodn't think I was first down this road; my contribution…
From My Biased Coin
PCing
This week I got my batches of papers to review for NSDI and LATIN. If I'm quiet for a while, I'm busy reading (and writing reviews). Needless to say, I didn't quite realize I'd get the papers for the two within a couple of days…
From Schneier on Security
The Futility of Defending the Targets
This is just silly:
Beaver Stadium is a terrorist target. It is most likely the No. 1 target in the region. As such, it deserves security measures commensurate with such a designation, but is the stadium getting such security…From The Eponymous Pickle
SASCom on Retail
Sascom Magazine reports on learnngs ' ... Last week at the SAS Retail Executive Seminar held in Cary, NC ... was able to catch up with industry leaders and ask them a few questions about what
From Wild WebMink
Building a Scorecard for Open Source
In my previous posts, I've drawn an analogy between open source software and organic food, hinting that in both cases the rush to create a working brand lost some of the essence of the vision. I've suggested that having businesses…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Plans Beauty Magazine
P&G to Launch Custom Beauty Magazine Rouge in U.S.: Package Goods Giant Plans to Build Database by Relying on Mommy Bloggers to Spread the Word. Nice to see bloggers mentioned.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Starbucks M-Commerce for IPhone
A case study of the use of M-Commerce by Starbucks in Storefrontbacktalk. I agree with their comments, I have tried a half dozen M-commerce applications, but have never bought anything with any of them. They are promotions for…
From Computational Complexity
Publicity for P versus NP
On the New York Times website, John Markoff writes an article Prizes Aside, the P-NP Puzzler has Consequences motivated by my CACM article on The Status of the P Versus NP Problem. Not a bad job describing the basic problem, …