Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2011
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Shoppers Want in an App
From the FMI Daily Lead, makes sense.What consumers want from their supermarket's app : Consumers' top three interests for grocery mobile applications are receiving weekly sales updates, location-specific advertising and deals…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ParAccel and MicroStrategy
We had some conversations with ParAccel a while back. I note that they have announced an effort with Microstrategy on social media analytics. Worth examining further as well as ParaAccel itself. Would appreciate any thoughts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT/Stanford Venture Lab on Augmented Reality
An upcoming meeting on the venture future of augmented reality. AR has a good future in retail as a means to effectively combine online and physical spaces. It eases the iteraction of shopper with multiple channels. I have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Learning with Smartphones
A case study of using Smartphones to engage with the learning process. " ... The users are given a smartphone that has access to more than 15 virtual course modules with topics ranging from confidence-building to interview techniques…
From Computational Complexity
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
From Schneier on Security
Official Malware from the German Police
The Chaos Computer Club has disassembled and analyzed the Trojan used by the German police for legal intercept. In its default mode, it takes regular screenshots of the active window and sends it to the police. It encrypts …
From Wild WebMink
? Eric Whitacre Concert
Eric Whitacre Concert, originally uploaded by webmink. Busy day Tuesday, which included the great pleasure of going to hear Eric Whitacre conduct his superb choir performing a number of his works including some new ones – you’ll…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Research Plan: The Role of Story in Educational Games
I've (finally!) been working on a concrete thesis research plan and wanted to share a general idea of what I'm intending to do. The short version is that I want to experimentally determine how different types of stories actually…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Merchandising Across Channels
Good report in RIS News: " ... This month
From Computational Complexity
If Bill Tweeted what would he tweet (Steve Jobs Edition)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Card Deck Invention Games
Mind Hacks discusses the use of card decks for innovation. A game prompting invention. Several card deck examples I had not heard of. We used this technique for brainstorming. Its like a disruptive check list. It helps…
From Putting People First
The many meanings of ethnography
Ethnography, Ethnography or Ethnography? What Happens When the Same Word Means Different Things to Different People? is the title of a new paper on ethnography by Sasanka Prabhala, Daria Loi and Subhashini Ganapathy of Intel.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 Standards Conference Report
In the Enterprise I participated in a number of presentations by GS1 " ... an international not-for-profit association dedicated to the development and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency…
From Putting People First
dConstruct 2011 videos online
dConstruct 2011, the 2 September event in Brighton, England, brought together leading thinkers from the fields of interaction design, mobile design and ubiquitous computing to explore how we can bridge the gap between physical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Workforce With Analytics
We used BI and Analytical methods early on in the enterprise in HR and it was very useful. More here in Business Finance: Business analytics offers a fresh take on workforce development.
From Putting People First
Mr Cameron, it
Ageing populations and budget cuts mean devising a new social contract. So why not use real designers
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where Facebook is not Used
In FlowingData: A fascinating map that shows where on earth Facebook is not being used. Fairly universal.
From Putting People First
Guardian Tech Weekly podcast: creating a digital public space
Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space with the British Library, the Royal Opera House and the BBC. “How can we preserve analogue culture in a digital world? Could something allow us to view, research & remix cultural…
From My Biased Coin
Listen
A colleague outside theory (but inside computer science) recently brought up an interesting question with me that seemed like a possible research-level issue. We had some back and forth, trying to figure out what we each meant…
From Putting People First
Video highlights from PICNIC Festival 2011
The videos of the presentations at PICNIC Festival 2011 (14-16 September, Amsterdam) are now online. Jake Barton on Urban Collaboration and Storytelling What will inspire and connect cities of the future? At our core, we are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The CKO in the Healthcare Data Explosion
Stan Dyck sends along this post from Healthcare IT News, very true:
From Putting People First
The birth (and death) of market research: why design research will prevail
The market research industry is built for the 20th Century mass production model, which is rapidly disappearing, argues Sam Ladner. The
From Putting People First
Audio interview with design anthropologist Dori Tunstall
Debbie Millman of DesignObserver.com interviewed design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on the insights that anthropology brings to consumerism and branding, and about the powers of transformation in design and designers. “Dori…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Susan Graham to Receive Ken Kennedy Award
Susan L. Graham
From Schneier on Security
New Attacks on CAPTCHAs
Nice research:
Abstract: We report a novel attack on two CAPTCHAs that have been widely deployed on the Internet, one being Google's home design and the other acquired by Google (i.e. reCAPTCHA). With a minor change, our attack…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Kids to Read but not Write?
A tweet passed though my stream last night. Eugene Wallingford retweeted someone else
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of October 11
October 12 Hearing The Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on education approaches in science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects.…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF/CISE Holds Webinar on Sustainability RFPs
Earlier this afternoon, the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sleep App
Skeptical of its value, but will mention to a sleep disorder doctor. Another example of sensor driven Apps, An App to Help You Sleep Better: By measuring your brain waves and tracking your sleep phases, Zeo's data helps you…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Navy Chooses InferX
A short time ago I started to look at InferX, a company that implements data mining and alerting techniques. A topic we explored extensively in the enterprise. I see that they recently announced a large contract with the US…