Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2013
From Putting People First
Book: The App Generation
The App Generation How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World Howard Gardner and Katie Davis Yale University Press October 2013, 256 pages [Yale University Press link - Amazon link] Abstract…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transferring online Book Notes to Twitter
Here experimenting with taking a highlighted portion of a book in kindle and transferring the highlights and notes to a twitter stream, sharing my comments and a link to the book, in the link below.@franzd: Data Mining Standards…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategy Arts
A couple of other pieces from Mckinsey on Strategy: On mastering its building blocks, an the art of strategy. In the enterprise strategic planning always seemed to be distrusted.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Launching a Data MOOC
Google on Launching an Analytics MOOC and Taking Data-Driven Actions " ... Analytics. It could be the deepest, darkest mystery in your organization, served up by a few select tech wizards, or it might be the solitary master by…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Data Science Workflow
Phillip Guo on Data Science Workflow: Well worth examining: " ... Engineering the Success of Software Development I now realize that data scientists are one main target audience for the tools that I created throughout my Ph…
From Geeking with Greg
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From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 8-Foot Giant Squid Pillow
Make your own 8-foot giant squid pillow.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
A Template for Reporting Government Surveillance News Stories
This is from 2006 -- I blogged it here -- but it's even more true today.
Under a top secret program initiated by the Bush Administration after the Sept. 11 attacks, the [name of agency (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.)] have been gathering…From Schneier on Security
Reading Group at Harvard Law School
In Spring Semester, I'm running a reading group -- which seems to be a formal variant of a study group -- at Harvard Law School on "Security, Power, and the Internet. I would like a good mix of people, so non law students and…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Internet Policy Task Force Seeks Public Comments on “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy” Report
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force invites public comments on its report, “Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy.” The 122-page report provides an analysis of copyright…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Debugging Student Code
I confess that I love to debug code. I think I’d rather fix broken code and remove bugs than write original code from scratch. All that set up and stuff is tedious but solving the puzzle of why code doesn’t work gets me all fired…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Software Partnership Meeting on Prior Art Searching Techniques and Tools on December 5, 2013
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold the next Software Partnership meting on December 5, 2013, from 1-4:30 pm ET at its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The focus of the meeting will be on “ways to improve…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Infinite storage: we are almost there…
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post called What is infinite storage? The blog post was a response to a Physics professor and colleague of mine who objected to my claim that we are soon reaching “infinite storage”. To be precise…
From Computational Complexity
Andrzej Mostowski (1913-1975)
Andrzej Mostowski was born 100 years ago today. While Mostowski worked in many areas of logic, including early fundamental work on model theory, for our readers he's best known for co-discovering the arithmetic hierarchy, sometimes…
From Schneier on Security
Close-In Surveillance Using Your Phone's Wi-Fi
This article talks about applications in retail, but the possibilities are endless.
Every smartphone these days comes equipped with a WiFi card. When the card is on and looking for networks to join, it's detectable by localpick…