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
Medical Databases and Better Care
I am currently looking at applications and intelligence in medical data. Which led me to this recent article. " ... UpToDate is one of several online services that provide frequently updated monographs incorporating the latest…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media vs Knowledge Management
In the HBR blog: " ... On the surface, social media and knowledge management (KM) seem very similar. Both involve people using technology to access information. Both require individuals to create information intended for sharing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Recap of Supercomputing
Last week in Seattle a record attendance of more than 11,000 people from throughout
From Schneier on Security
Android Malware
The Android platform is where the malware action is:
What happens when anyone can develop and publish an application to the Android Market? A 472% increase in Android malware samples since July 2011. These days, it seems all…From The Eponymous Pickle
Aberdeen Group
Brought to my attention: The Aberdeen Group. " ... Aberdeen conducts primary research studies from a pool of over 500,000 panel participants. The results of each research survey are indexed and tabulated using a proprietary…
From Wild WebMink
Catness
Another good Simon’s Cat animation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing for the Internet of Things
A recent NESTA conference: About what they call demanding devices. The idea should flourish. Includes a number of videos from the conference. Another idea would be to connect your entire context, your world to the internet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling Me
Martin Lindstrom writes in Fast Company about the 'Me Selling Proposition'. Personalizing things from postage stamps to beverages to make them feel very much like mine. He relates it to a personalized marketing experiment he…
From Putting People First
How can we change consumer behaviour to benefit the environment?
The concept of of social labelling could lead to a subconscious change in behaviour, Guy Champniss writes in The Guardian. “By social labelling, we’re referring to the tag society gives a particular behaviour in order to make…
From Putting People First
Unilever
Five Levers for Change: inspiring consumers to adopt sustainable behaviour is fundamental to achieving Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan. Unilever
From Wild WebMink
Thanks, ECJ!
While the USA has a day of general thanksgiving today, European citizens need to be especially thankful to the European Court of Justice for their decision that it is not lawful to require ISPs to monitor traffic on the networks…
From Putting People First
Demanding devices: design and the Internet of Things
On Tuesday 22 November, NESTA in London organised an event that looked at the challenges of designing for an Internet of Things. The speakers: pioneers Usman Haque, founder of Pachube, and Matt Jones, formerly at the BBC, Dopplr…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Announces Spring Cleaning
You have to admire their spunk. And funds. They have tried a number of unusual efforts and dared us to use them. Announced, a list things that are being sunsetted. Notable to me was Wave, who's AI implications intrigued me…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Share of Wallet is not Enough
Byron Sharp discusses the issue of share of wallet. " ... In a recent Harvard Business Review article TIm Keiningham et al (Oct 2011) argue that managers should pay attention to
From Computer Science Teachers Association
When Something Helpful Comes Along
You never know where a resource is going to come from. We have a retired guidance counselor that is back subbing in our building this month. He sought me out to ask if I had seen an interview by Charlie Rose with Mark Zuckerberg…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Among the 10 world-changing ideas we featured earlier today is the “forever health monitor,” i.e., the ability to exploit today’s technology to quickly, easily, and fairly inexpensively monitor our own vital signs in real time…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flow Powered Reality
Artificial Reality powered shopping:" ... A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) ... announced a new iPhone app: Flow Powered by Amazon. Flow is a new augmented reality app that makes it easy to explore…
From Putting People First
The Jawbone UP fails, but teaches 3 golden rules for experience design
Cliff Kuang, editor of Co.Design, used the Jawbone UP for a week, and can’t recommend it. “The wristband itself is superbly designed: The slight oval shape and rubberized case mean that it hews to your wrist without bouncing…
From Putting People First
Complexity and User Experience
The best products don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Queries Beta
Big Queries in Beta via Google. " ... Google wants to help you crunch big data like cornflakes.To that end, it is opening up BigQuery, the service is designed for large-scale internal data analytics, to companies of all sizes…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Scientific American
In the December 2011 issue
From Wild WebMink
Big May Not Be Better
Price myths persist long after their time. A decade after the popularisation of open source for business use, I’m still hearing the idea espoused that it’s safer to buy proprietary software from a big supplier than use open source…
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: David Hawking on Search Problems and Solutions in Higher Education
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and free content one month may slip behind a pay wall the next.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engaging the Crowd with Hall
A new way to engage the crowd. Vote, chat, interact. Existing halls about Startups, Apple, Ruby, ESPN, SEO, NFL etc. Start your own halls. A little like Twitter lists, with added crowd polling and interaction support. Is…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More Stanford CS, Entrepreneurship Courses Go Online
This fall, Stanford
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Data Mining
Good broad article on the topic of consumer data from [email protected]'s ever-expanding cache of online data is a store in more ways than one. Every tweet tweeted, badge unlocked, website searched and "Like" button clicked…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Raw Data into Information
Turning Raw Data into Actionable Information. A New blog by Michael Tarallo. A business intelligence professional formerly at Pentaho. Includes a recent post on working woth social media data.
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ben Greene on Large Memory Computers for In-Memory Enterprise Applications
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From Wild WebMink
Open Rights Group on FLOSS Weekly
Tomorrow (November 23rd) I’ll be visiting Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group (the UK’s answer to the EFF), and interviewing him on FLOSS Weekly in another Brit Invasion show with Dan Lynch. I’d be pleased…