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 The Eponymous Pickle
Tell Them Where to Go in Retail
Click through to see the whole thing: Tell 'em Where to Go; Tell 'em Which to Buy!(The "Path-to-Purchase" Ought to Be a U-Turn)September 30, 2010 - by Herb Sorensen, Ph.D., Scientific Advisor, TNS Retail and ShopperThe objective…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Posterous gets an App
In ReadwriteWeb: The minimalist blogging platform called Posterous is something I am experimenting with for getting blogging into the hand of clients. They now have an IPhone App to make this easier. Will try.
From Schneier on Security
The Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination
Remember the Mahmoud al-Mabhouh assassination last January? The police identified 30 suspects, but haven't been able to find any of them.
Police spent about 10,000 hours poring over footage from some 1,500 security cameras …From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What are you using?
I blog about a lot of resources here and I
From The Eponymous Pickle
In-Facility Navigation
In the NYT (May require registration): Finding Your Way Through the Mall or the Airport, With a Cellphone Map. Not a very new idea, but a reasonable overview discussion of applications that deal with in-facility navigation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Lion Testing
In Supermarket News, Bloom's Food Lion is testing a 3GTV television network in store. " ... will examine the best way to utilize video and other digital media to connect with shoppers and enhance the in store shopping experience…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AnalyticBridge
I see that AnalyticBridge has a newly designed web site. Nicely done. They position themselves as the social network for analytics professionals.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-10-11
IBM joins the OpenJDK community and dumps Apache Harmony "IBM will work with Oracle and the Java community to make OpenJDK the primary high performance open source runtime for Java. IBM will be shifting its development effort…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Promotes the Fourth Screen
According to this article and a number of others there are four screens that Google would like to get hold of:The TV, the Computer, the Mobile Phone .... and the Automobile's. The first three are already much in play, the fourth…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Becoming Demand Driven
Not an unusual thing these days:Unilever
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Developments in Exploring CS Curriculum
There have been exciting developments in the Los Angeles Exploring Computer Science program.
This past week, the university-district-CSTA partnership received a large NSF grant from the Math-Science Partnership program of …From Schneier on Security
<i>The Economist</i> on Biometrics
Good article.
Here's my essay on biometrics, from 1999.
From Computational Complexity
The NSF Takes Shape
As I've mentioned before, the NSF is turning over top to bottom especially in computer science. Most of the pieces are now in place so let's check out the new personnel at the NSF that affect theoretical computer science. The…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 October 2010
Yesterday was 10/10/10 which a lot of geek types had fun with. Of course 101010 in binary is 42 in decimal and 42, according to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the answer to everything. But your probably knew that. Speaking…
From Putting People First
Experientia supporting Flemish applied research on mobility and sustainability
Experientia is excited to be working on two applied research projects for Flanders InShape (FIS), a Flemish design promotion agency that supports and advises small and mid-size companies in Flanders, Belgium on matters related…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grand Challenges for Engineering
This blog post in Kurzweil AI reminded me of the Grand Challenges for Engineering. It lists them specifically. I remember reading about these years ago. The post specifically makes the case that there is something wrong about the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Springer's Computer Science Reading Room
Springer Publishing has opened what they call a computer science reading room, nice idea. A Free Library of Computer Science Knowledge Inside the Computer Science Reading Room you will find free content from the highly respected…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Repast Simphony
A recent project made me re-examine Repast: An Agent Simulation toolkit. For what is called Agent Based Simulation (ABM) Repast Simphony is a free and open source agent-based modeling toolkit that simplifies model creation and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Truth Serum, Pluralistic Ignorance
I can remember just this occuring in a project in the enterprise, on pluralistic ignorance. I guess this calls for more transparency? .. It begins: " ... In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance, a term coined by Daniel…
From The Noisy Channel
Pluralistic Ignorance and Bayesian Truth Serum
Last week, I had the pleasure of talking with CMU professor George Loewenstein, one of the top researchers in the area of behavioral economics. I mentioned my idea of using prediction markets to address the weaknesses of online…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deleted Posts are Discoverable
An article about using deleted posts in social networking sites for legal proceedings, an interesting caution:" ... Deleted Facebook and MySpace Posts Are Discoverable--Romano v. SteelcaseOn my personal blog, I have repeatedly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Cars Drive Themselves
This came out last week, Google cars driving themselves in traffic, with only occasional human intervention. Article in NYT Science. Now will you be able to click on a mobile phone after finding your destination to command…
From Putting People First
Ford
The New York Times reports on how car designers have recognised the challenge of keeping vehicles
From Putting People First
Ford
The New York Times reports on how car designers have recognised the challenge of keeping vehicles
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality App Travels in Time
Have always thought that a good augemented reality application should include details, in text and visually, of the history of a location. How much data actually exists to make this a rich experience would vary: First Look:When…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standards in Neuromarketing
Duane Varan, who is leading the Advertising Research Foundation's initiative to develop standards, is interviewed on the form and need for standards in Neuromarketing. Good to see this direction. More credibility for new technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smartphones Recognizing their Owners by Their Walk
A nice basically simple idea, use the accelerometers in most Smartphones as a low involvement means to recognize their owners. As they start to become more like wallets could be important. Using what is called gait analysis…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid's Restaurant
In Chapel Hill, NC.
From Apophenia
Logging onto Twitter to check out a few things quickly before running off to a homecoming football game, I couldn’t help but notice something important: “Pep Rally” was trending as a US trending topic. I immediately clicked…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the IFuture of Money
CW post on the future of money, reporting on a conference in Geneva and a presentation being given on the evolution of Smartphones being used for payment. A favorite topic. Inevitable. See in particular a list of a number…