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 The Eponymous Pickle
iMFlux Plastics
Brought to my attention again, also see previous article on this.SHAPING TECHNOLOGYiMFLUX, Inc, is a technology and innovation leader in plastics processing. The iMFLUX team brings 150+ years of relevant, global industry experience…
From My Biased Coin
News Worth Reading
There's been plenty of interesting stuff popping up in the news, so it's time to collect a bit.This article describes a current patent case in cryptography, where apparently Ron Rivest testified (by deposition) and WhitfieldBoston…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy highlights computing at it’s November Meeting
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy (PCAST) met on November 12, 2013 and highlighted computing throughout the meeting. The first agenda item was an overview of a soon-to-be-released letter report…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Theorems From Physics?
Can information physics extract proofs from reality? IEEE source Rolf Landauer was a physicist and computer engineer who spent most of his career at IBM north of New York City, becoming an IBM Fellow in 1969. According to his…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Program at NSF includes Computer Science Education Research
The Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) in the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a new funding program called Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE)…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Hour of Code Update 26 November 2013
The Hour of Code events for CS Ed Week is shaping up to be really big. Are you involved? Here's an update I got from the founder of code.org this week.
We announced the Hour of Code just weeks ago, and now 3 million students…
From Schneier on Security
The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA
This is a long article about the FBI's Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU), which is basically its own internal NSA.
It carries out its own signals intelligence operations and is trying to collect huge amounts of email and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification Site
From Bunchball, a blog I had the chance to look at again about Gamification. I was asked to provide some examples in this space, and this is a good place to go. Pass me some additional and especially novel applications I can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carver Mead on Quantum Computing
In CACM: Carver Mead was an early inspiration for our advanced computing and sensor work. In particular about the use of optical sensors. Here he writes about the future of computing in quantum space. New kinds of electronics…
From CERIAS Blog
The Passing of A Pioneer
Willis H. Ware, a highly respected and admired pioneer in the fields of computing security and privacy, passed away on November 22nd, 2013, aged 93.
Born August 31,1920, Mr. Ware received a BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania…From CERIAS Blog
The Passing of A Pioneer
Willis H. Ware, a highly respected and admired pioneer in the fields of computing security and privacy, passed away on November 22nd, 2013, aged 93.
Born August 31,1920, Mr. Ware received a BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania…From CERIAS Blog
The Passing of A Pioneer
Willis H. Ware, a highly respected and admired pioneer in the fields of computing security and privacy, passed away on November 22nd, 2013, aged 93.
Born August 31,1920, Mr. Ware received a BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania…From The Eponymous Pickle
Genetic Algorithms
I am a long time follower and user of genetic algorithms. Here from David E Goldberg on Slideshare: Fast, Effective Genetic Algorithms for Large, Hard Problems
From The Eponymous Pickle
NEIL Learns from Images
I was involved with a startup system that used image recognition and categorization called Photrade several years ago. There I got an appreciation of how difficult this problem was. Also how closely it matched to the process…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Markets Please
More open markets and less regulation. Ultimately decreases prices. Mark J Perry does an other post on a favorite market topic of his: Ticket Scalping. Another topic of interest are open markets for human organs. Read his…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senior Executives Online
Should senior execs of large enterprises like Wal-Mart, be on Twitter? Some interesting thoughts.But is this an example of attempting to micro manage consumer interaction? Sure they need to know what is going on in Social Media…
From Schneier on Security
US Working to Kill UN Resolutions to Limit International Surveillance
This story should get more publicity than it has.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Where is the CS Pipeline?
I was contacted by a CS/Math teacher last month who had an interest in hosting CS camps for elementary school students. Since our local CSTA Advocacy group was scheduled to meet that week, I invited him to attend the meeting …
From Putting People First
BancoSmart video – Experientia’s ATM interface for UniCredit Bank
Experientia’s innovative ATM interface for UniCredit Bank has started to roll out across ATMs in Italy, and UniCredit has created a video to showcase some of the features. Experientia’s interface design reinvents the ATM interface…
From Computational Complexity
The Institute for proving Graph Isomorphism is in P
(This post was inspired by Adam Winklers awesome book Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. Disclaimers one: Adam Winkler is my cousin and I got a free copy. Question: Should I give him a free copy ofhere…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Research in Digital Photography
A new look. Video. " ... Researchers are exploring how to use computational optics and digital imagery in new and innovative ways. Lensless cameras, single-pixel imagery, devices that can see around corners and a number of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pace of Technology Adoption
Speeding up. in the HBR. Yes, just based on the communications I get, and the large scale misunderstanding we see about how technologies act within product contexts and connect us with other people. This article also has a"…
From Wild WebMink
Adding Bitcoin Subscriptions
If you’d like to support my writing, I can now accept donation of Bitcoins. You can subscribe to make a monthly donation, or make a one-off donation. I’m using Coinbase to handle this, I’d welcome input on other people’s experiences…
From Michael Nielsen
Neural Networks and Deep Learning: first chapter goes live
I am delighted to announce that the first chapter of my book “Neural Networks and Deep Learning” is now freely available online here. The chapter explains the basic ideas behind neural networks, including how they learn. I show…
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance as a Business Model
Google recently announced that it would start including individual users' names and photos in some ads. This means that if you rate some product positively, your friends may see ads for that product with your name and photo attached—without…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 25 November 2013
Starting of this post made me realize that we are exactly a month away from Christmas. I need to get going on shopping for my wife’s presents. I’m running out of time. I can’t be like my students sometimes are and leave it all…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata and Fuzzy Logix
Have had a number of conversations with Teradata recently. And I came rather late to this press release about how they were working with a company I had previously looked at, Fuzzy Logix. " ... Fuzzy Logix, a leading analytics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Books on Big Data Science
Recently sent out to a requesting correspondent:A very readable, up to date book: Big Data: A Revolution that will transform ... by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier... This book answers the question WHY, withModeling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Entrepreneurial State
Schumpeter: The entrepreneurial state in System Growth Consulting" ... Advanced economies have become near-obsessed with stimulating innovation in their economies to drive growth. This has included setting up structures in their…
From Writing
Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js, JavaScript, and Socket.io
The Play Framework takes a functional programming approach to stream processing (e.g. Comet, chunked responses, WebSockets) by using abstractions called Iteratees, Enumerators, and Enumeratees. When I originally tried to wrap…