Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2009
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-03
Important to understand how this model works as it will be at the core of the disruption all technology businesses face from Google over the coming…
From Putting People First
The Times
The New York Times interactive group creates an online encyclopedia of all their stunning inventions, reports Cliff Kuang on Fast Company. “The Times interactive team has been creating path-breaking experiments in infographics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT is not just Overhead
I remember well the Peter Drucker article about corporate overhead mentioned below. I was lucky to have worked at Procter & Gamble under several CIOs that strongly believed that information technologies were transformational.…
From CERIAS Blog
Are We All Aware Yet?
So, here we are, in November already. We've finished up with National Cyber Security Awareness Month
From Putting People First
Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world
MIT News reports on how MIT students are exploring innovative cellphone uses in the developing world. “Several startup business ventures spawned by MIT students, sometimes as class projects and sometimes as independent work,…
From Putting People First
Augmented Reality is overblown
Chris Dannen writes in Fast Company that Augmented Reality is overblown, and doesn’t expect apps like Layar to drastically change the way we live our everyday lives. “Talk to the people doing AR research, and they seem to think…
From Putting People First
As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological
“As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological,” argues Gentry Underwood, who focuses on social media and collaborative software at IDEO, in a guest article for Core77. “And with the networking of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DVR Users Don't Skip
In the NYT. Some fascinating results from the set-top clickstream. Including that a surprising number (46% in 18-49) of people do not fast forward over ads. It seems the danger of DVRs to commercial messages was overstated. Pure…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 2
November 4
Markup: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will review the Cybersecurity Coordination and Awareness Act, a piece of draft legislation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Active Wallpaper
We can use flat surfaces at home or work as a display or or changeable view. Even talked to an office environment manufacturer that was looking at embedding this idea in cubicles. Here the idea is to use a wall surface as an…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-11-02
"Eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression, research suggests. What is more, people who ate plenty of vegetables, fruit and fish…
From My Biased Coin
ICS Papers Announced
As pointed out many places, the paper for the (strangely named) new theory conference Innovations in Computer Science are out, with the list here and list with abstracts here.I suppose the future will tell how "innovative" these…
From Schneier on Security
The FBI and Wiretaps
To aid their Wall Street investigations, the FBI used DCSNet, their massive surveillance system.
Prosecutors are using the FBI's massive surveillance system, DCSNet, which stands for Digital Collection System Network. According…From The Eponymous Pickle
When Customers Negotiate
Attended a most interesting talk at UC this past week on negotiation models. Readers will recall that I previously covered auction analysis here. A simplified model, but great work. I will post a link to paper or slides here …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coin Toss Depends on Starting Point
In the Freakonomics blog: Is the common arbiter of binary decisions not so random? Short article points to resources that say it may depend on its original position in the hand. See the background Stanford paper: Dynamical Bias…
From Computational Complexity
Report From Ramsey-Logic-Complexity Workshop
Back from
RaTLoCC 2009 which is Ramsey Theory in Logic, Combinatorics, and Complexity.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Loyalty Hasn't Disappeared
Professor Byron Sharp, Director, Ehrenberg-Bass InstituteUniversity of South Australia writes:FranzLast week the New York Times reported that American's loyalty to car brands has plummeted. I've written on this myth before (see…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality in Virtual Worlds
IBM continues to do interesting enterprise enabling virtual world work, here with Nokia:' ... With support from IBM (NYSE:IBM) Research and Nokia Research Center, the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland created an experimental…
From BLOG@CACM
Wrapping up OOPSLA, Looking Forward For SPLASH
Like all good things, OOPSLA 09 concluded last Thursday. A great conference with many interesting presentations, I'm already looking forward for the next one : SPLASH in Reno, Nevada.
From CERIAS Blog
Cassandra Firing GnuPG Blanks
A routine software update (a minor revision number) caused a serious problem. A number of blank messages were sent until we realized that attempts to sign messages with GnuPG from PHP resulted in empty strings. If you received…
From The Noisy Channel
Twitter Lists as an Influence Measure?
