Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2010
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Computational Complexity
Do conference build community? (joint post)
(Joint Post by Daniel Apon and Bill Gasarch. Does doing joint posts build community?)
In GASARCH's post on Will there be a 50th CCC He mentioned that conferences help to build community. One of the comments challenged that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Chart Editor in Google Docs
Google Docs has jsust added a new chart editor. I have not tried the original, but it looks good. No where near as sophisiticated as many of the business intelligence capabilities out there, or even Excel, but has a few chart…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Putting People First
Digital-savvy shoppers drive change in retail
Jonathan Birchall reports in the Financial Times on the challenges of creating a single customer experience both online and in stores: “Shoppers equipped with smartphones can now use tools from the online world in-store. They…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Putting People First
Meet the 20-cent
CNN has an interview up with Nigel Waller, the CEO of Movirtu Limited and the man behind their Cloud Phone, writes Core77. Waller dropped the surprising statistic that worldwide there are one billion people who use cell phones–but…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-28
Tantric TSA: The art of foreplay "I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?" At some point our elected representatives will get a clue and say on our behalf that it's…
From Schneier on Security
New Orleans Scrapping Surveillance Cameras
They're not worth it:
In seven years, New Orleans' crime camera program has yielded six indictments: three for crimes caught on video and three for bribes and kickbacks a vendor is accused of paying a former city official to…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Exploratory Computer Science Course
One of the great things I get to do these days is to participate in advisory boards for Programming and Web Development programs at some local career/technical high schools. The other night is was at Greater Lowell Tech and they…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone App Detects Snoring Patterns
Another example of Smartphone App as biometric sensor. Have been following these closely. Not sure how well this particular App works, but I like the idea. Consider a broad range of biometric analyses done through phones…
From Schneier on Security
FBI Bugging Embassies in 1940
Old -- but recently released -- document discussing the bugging of the Russian embassy in 1940. The document also mentions bugging the embassies of France, Germany, Italy, and Japan.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sweet Spots in Quantity Discounts
In Knowledge@Wharton, they discuss quantity discounts in stores like Costco, where big and multipacks rule. I have been a Costco member for years, but always wondered about how the 'discounts' given really helped the consumer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cool Business Intelligence
From the upcoming TDWI World BI conference: Cool BI: Outlook, BI Search by Cindi HowsonIf you think BI tools have become a commodity, think again. If you think you can tick along with your current BI tool standard, never to…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Top Ten Technology Trends for the Future
Carrie Gates of CA Labs gave a talk at this past weekend's Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing: "Technology Trends for the Future, and Their Implications." After explaining how hard it is to come up with a Top Ten list…
From Wild WebMink
ForgeRock: Announcing OpenIDM
You’ll recall that we started ForgeRock near the start of 2010 to provide continuity for customers of Sun’s enterprise identity middleware products and from that to establish a new ISV creating an identity-oriented application…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Find My Phone
A website that helps you find your phone. Guess how ... Precious.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crime Prediction Software
Shades of a movie I saw a while back: " ... Soon, people will be able to discover criminals long before they do any harm, with the help of new crime prediction software that was developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University…
From Schneier on Security
Firesheep
Firesheep is a new Firefox plugin that makes it easy for you to hijack other people's social network connections. Basically, Facebook authenticates clients with cookies. If someone is using a public WiFi connection, the cookies…
From Wild WebMink
DRM Is Toxic To Culture
It’s possible that you think that unauthorised use of copyrighted music, films and books is such a serious problem that it’s worth giving away a little of your convenience and freedom in exchange for stopping it. I’d like to…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge
Imagine Cup 2011 is the premier student technology competition. Inspired by the UN Millennium Development Goals, Imagine Cup encourages students to help
From Wild WebMink
Compliance
My essay on open source license compliance for end users is now available in the essays section.