Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2014
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Mobile in E-Commerce
In Marketing Mag: New ways to interact and better personalization will emerge. The future of better mobile. " ... Mobile is increasingly important for online retailers. Rohit Dadwal argues that as more and more customers are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holiday Shopper Research
Shopping never sleeps More from Google retail. With statistics and visuals. " ... This holiday shopping season will be our most connected ever, with devices at our fingertips helping us hunt for deals in stolen moments—whether…
From BLOG@CACM
Anyone Can Learn Programming: Teaching > Genetics
Way more important than the question "Is P==NP?" is the question, "Is teaching greater than genetics?"
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adapting with Speed
Adapting with speed: How agile selling organizations win in a demanding environmentAdapting with speed in a rapidly changing CPG marketplace Winning CPG companies are adapting with speed in an evolving marketplace by anticipating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation by Kraft
A fairly detailed piece on a focused and deliberate drive to innovation by Kraft. " ... Kraft Foods is aiming for "white space" innovation, which looks for new opportunities in today's crowded marketplace, said Vice President…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Freestyle Gets Personal
Saw some early ideas for delivering this. Makes a lot of sense to personalize the sometimes complex interaction. Plan to test. " ... Building on its legacy as a game-changing innovation, Coca-Cola Freestyle® is set to make…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH invests $32 million for Biomedical Big Data
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has announced an initial investment of nearly $32 million for NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative which is projected to have a total investment of nearly $656 million through 2020…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Unleashed Meeting
Saw this late, but there will be an event at Wright State University this Thursday. Analytics Unleashed. I plan to be there." ... Join the Raj Soin College of Business, and Teradata Chief Operations Officer Bruce A. Langos for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toshiba Embedded Glasses Display
Another example of a head mounted display, competing with Google Glass. More wearable tech. " ... Called Toshiba Glass, they have a tiny, lightweight projector clipped onto one of the arms near the lens. That projector displays…
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance in Schools
This essay, "Grooming students for a lifetime of surveillance," talks about the general trends in student surveillance. Related: essay on the need for student privacy in online learning....
From XRDS
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students
From XRDS
Do no evil in research
Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Sean Follmer
From XRDS
Diverse responses to our diversty issue
XRDS Staff
From XRDS
New directions in language processing
Adrian Scoică, Daniel Bauer
From XRDS
Technology for talking
Jay Patel
From XRDS
From zero to excellence
Claudia Schulz
From XRDS
Successfully transitioning from academia to entrepreneurship
Farnaz Ronaghi
From XRDS
Why to get involved in the open source community?
Maria Kechagia
From XRDS
The geometric origins of spectral graph theory
Olivia Simpson
From XRDS
Talking to computers in natural language
Percy LiangNatural language understanding is as old as computing itself, but recent advances in machine learning and the rising demand of natural-language interfaces make it a promising time to once again tackle the long-standing…
From XRDS
To err is human, to correct is divine
Mariano Felice, Zheng YuanTechnology has made language learning a more interactive and enjoyable experience, but it has never been smart enough to replace human tutors. However, the latest advances in automated grammatical error…
From XRDS
From wax tablets to touchscreens: an introduction to text-entry research
Per Ola KristenssonHow we can enable users to transmit text to mobile and ubiquitous computer systems as quickly and as accurately as possible.
From XRDS
Ancient Sumerian online: challenges and opportunities
Terhi Nurmikko-FullerFar from its beginnings as symbols pressed into clay tablets, Ancient Sumerian is now being digitized and shared through cutting edge semantic web technologies.
From XRDS
Detecting influencers in social media discussions
Sara RosenthalKnowing who's influential can help when planning political campaigns, advertising strategies, or even combating terrorism; and now research into influence detection promises to automate such detection.
From XRDS
Spoken dialogue systems: the new frontier in human-computer interaction
Pierre Lison, Raveesh MeenaWouldn't it be great if we could simply talk to our technical devices instead of relying on cumbersome displays and keyboards to convey what we want?
From XRDS
A hybrid system for code switch point detection in informal Arabic text
Heba Elfardy, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Mona DiabHow to detect the switch between a standard and a dialectal form of a language in written text and why this is important for natural language processing tasks.
From XRDS
Miriam Plieninger on language learning with Babbel
Daniel Bauer, Billy RathjeBabbel's Director of Didactics, Miriam Plieninger, weighs in on how mobile apps are rapidly changing the way we approach language learning.
From XRDS
Profile Geoffrey Hinton: unlocking the language of the brain
Adrian Scoică
From XRDS
National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM): Manchester, United Kingdom
Georgios Kontonatsios, Matt Shardlow
From XRDS
Speech synthesis
Finn Kuusisto