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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 November 2011
I spent a lot of time watching the Twitter feed and reading blog posts about the Microsoft Global Forum last week. And some watching the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing as well. A good number of this week’s links…
From BLOG@CACM
SC11: The Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy Awards
The Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy awards and the work of the recipients reflect the evolving interplay of technology, software, applications and algorithms in advancing high-performance computing. They also recognize intellectual…
From Wild WebMink
Ending Aggregation
I think it’s time for the aggregator on webmink.net to be closed down. I plan to redirect from there to here starting next week. If you think this would be a bad idea, tell me now!
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industry Insights from P&G and Unilever
Intriguing ideas from enterprise CPG giants: " ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keeping Crucial Knowledge
How do you keep crucial knowledge from leaving? You organize it in a useful and easily understood way. I worked on this problem for years in the enterprise and can attest to the power of this approach.
From BLOG@CACM
Techwomen Alumnae Attend Grace Hopper
Here is information about the Techwomen program and its attendees at Grace Hopper.
From BLOG@CACM
Exciting New Research Presented at Grace Hopper
The Grace Hopper Conference includes a Ph.D. Forum that showcases the research of current Ph.D. students, with the additional goal of providing support and mentoring.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Model Factory
New interesting thoughts from the SASCom Blog. " ... For the analytical expert this is a promising direction as well. Rather than spending large parts of the day with repetitive tasks that can be done more effectively and efficiently…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Enjoying Grace Hopper 2011 From Afar
I've attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) every year since 2008, gradually increasing my participation from blogging to being on a conference committee. This year I had to miss out because I am past…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recorded Future Looking Forward
I just had the opportunity in preparation for some talks and predictive analytics work to look once again at the 'temporal search engine' Recorded Future. Happy to report that it is now working well on tablets like the iPad…
From Computational Complexity
My response to the Gasarch P vs NP poll
A while back GASARCH solicited responses to a P vs NP poll and gave Oct 31 as the deadline. Now that the deadline is passed I post my answers.
Does P=NP? I think P is NOT NP. However, I am not dogmatic on this. When I first…From The Eponymous Pickle
Practical not Gimmick Bots
The CEO of iRobot, Colin Angle, is questioned about the future of robotics. I agree there has been too much gimmickry delivered. Yet even gimmickry delivers the possibilities to many people and makes them think about the" …
From The Eponymous Pickle
WalMart.com Test Stores
Had not heard of this in particular. We also experimented with small experimental stores in Malls and college towns, among other places. Good places to collect data.(Reuters) - Two tiny Walmart.com stores are making Southern…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ARF Draft Neurostandards Paper
Sand Research passes this along: Advertising Research Foundation Releases Draft Neurostandards White Paper. "deep understanding - not available through traditional methods" . I mentioned and pointed to this before, now…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Following on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of the
From Schneier on Security
Commentary on Strong Passwords
It turns out that "2bon2btitq" is not a strong password.
From BLOG@CACM
Alain Chesnais Welcomes Grace Hopper Attendees
Alain Chesnais, President of ACM, welcomed attendees to the 11th Grace Hopper Conference
From BLOG@CACM
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Keeps Growing!
The official opening of the Grace Hopper Conference (GHC) on 11/10/2011 was an exciting event. Conference statistics show a growth of 35% since 2010.
From BLOG@CACM
Sheryl Sandberg's Keynote at Grace Hopper
Sheryl Sandberg gave the opening keynote at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and spoke about why careers in technology are important and why it is critical that women go into these careers.
From My Biased Coin
CAEC: First Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day
Giorgos suggested I remind people about CAEC, which will be next week (November 18).Still time to sign up and register.Here's the link.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Heuristics
A piece in Vanity Fair. Contrary to what they say in the article and imply in the embedded quiz, heuristics are not necessarily wrong. They are rules of thumb that can make our life easier, we use them every hour of every day…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does Google Know About You?
Always an interesting subject. You can infer much from the ads you see. ReadwriteWeb discusses the depth and breadth of it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Big Data
An extensive and thoughtful article:" ... Over time, we believe big data may well become a new type of corporate asset that will cut across business units and function much as a powerful brand does, representing a key basis for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reengineering the Business with Analytics
Some useful thoughts from the SASCom Blog. Analytics can be applied to effectively change enterprise process.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Unveils Cross-Cutting Smart Health & Wellbeing Program
The
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineering a 10,000 Year Clock
In IEEE Spectrum: Was exposed to this project when it was started by Danny Hillis and Stewart Brand in 1996. The most forward look project I have ever seen. According to this piece it is finally underway. See more here at…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
First Person:
On Monday, the
From Putting People First
Transforming behaviour change
The RSA’s latest report, Transforming Behaviour Change: Beyond Nudge and Neuromania, argues for a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between our social challenges, our behaviours and our brains. Abstract The…
From Putting People First
Craftmanship
John Kolko reflects on design education and the importance of craftmanship in an article for Interactions Magazine. “Based on my experience reviewing portfolios from recent business school graduates, I would argue that one of…
From Putting People First
GEM, Nokia
Nokia releases a new phone concept – Gem – which “revolutionizes mobile design by turning the entire handset into a touchscreen”. Launched on the 25th anniversary of the Nokia Research Centre, the GEM device changes appearance…