Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2011
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deal Making at A&P
An example of how companies like The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company are using Deal Management software from Demandtec to improve the end to end promotion management footprint. " ... The software service will be integrated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Design Changing the Way we Think
Good piece in the Atlantic. It also points to the organization called The Institute of Play. Which looks at the relationship of games and learning.The Power of Creativity: How Game Design Changes the Way we Think: Game designers…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My favorite LaTeX editor for MacOS: Texpad
I always found word processors distracting. I hate to copy and paste text only to find that the text formatting was copied as well. When I write, I do not want to have to worry about typesetting or page formatting issues. And…
From Apophenia
Why Parents Help Children Violate Facebook
Announcing new journal article: “Why Parents Help Their Children Lie to Facebook About Age: Unintended Consequences of the ‘Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act’” by danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai, Jason Schultz, and John Palfrey…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE, ONR Announce Materials Genome Solicitations
Back in June, the Administration announced a $500 million Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) to stimulate the development of new technologies
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Sets up Virtual Stores
P&G has set up a number of augmented reality, smartphone-enabled virtual stores in the Prague subways. In AdWeek. Not unique, but a creative effort. Going where people are to get their attention and sell them product. An image…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twenty Year Look at fMRI
A view of the only twenty year history of fMIRI scanning of the brain.
From Schneier on Security
<i>The Economist</i> on Lying
Two articles. And this is the cited work.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What To Tell Students About Computer Science
Last Friday I drove down to Cape Cod. Just over the Cape Cod canal via the Bourne Bridge is Upper Cape Tech. They have an outstanding culinary arts program and while I really did enjoy lunch and conversation in the culinary arts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots are Taking Mid-Level Jobs
Article suggests that many mid-level jobs are being taken by computing and robotics. Rapidly changing the economy. Technical jobs, though, should remain common for now. " ... Computers and robots will replace humans in enough…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming Healthcare Distruptive Meetup
An upcoming Continuous Web Meetup on disruptive healthcare innovation. " ... This month we're going to showcase a few founders that are disrupting the healthcare industry with web-based innovations. They are excited to joinWe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Standards Draft
Sendt along by Ron Wright of Sands Research: