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
Google Wonderlabs
Happened to be in an Apple Store today that was packed with people and it seems as many consultants. This is a growing development. In CWorld:Google wants you walkin' in its Winter WonderlabsComputerworld - Google opened gadget…
From Putting People First
[Book] Public and Collaborative
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Public and Collaborative Exploring the intersection of design, social innovation and public policy Ezio Manzini and Eduardo Staszowski (Editors) New York, September 2013, 181 pages Download [Alternative links 1 - 2] This book…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining SAP's Lumira
During the early phases of Data Visualization we took a look at a number of solutions. SAP was the ERP solution for the enterprise, so we looked at their Business Objects solution for what we called business intelligence then…
From Putting People First
Bruce Sterling on the value of design fiction (and some example videos)
Bruce Sterling’s Wired UK article on the value of design fiction is very much worth a read, as it defines the field so well: “A formal definition exists: “Design fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend…
From Putting People First
An ethnographic study of UK policy making
Professor Alex Stevens of the University of Kent, did quite an unusual ethnographic study – focused on understanding how UK civil servants use evidence in policy making, and in the process comes to some quite political conclusions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDs 3D Printing in Store
McDonalds Doing 3D Printing in its stores? " ... Fast food chain is also mulling tablets and touchscreen ordering kiosks FAST FOOD CHAIN McDonalds has said that it will consider bringing 3D printing into its 'restaurants'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of the Workplace
An ethnographers look: We did a similar investigation. Video. " ... What will the workplace of the future look like? Will it even exist as a physical space? Ever since networked computers first became widespread the idea of…
From Putting People First
The future of the workplace: through an ethnographer’s eyes
What will the workplace of the future look like? Will it even exist as a physical space? Ever since networked computers first became widespread the idea of the virtual organisation has been touted, yet most of us still work in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Gathering and Sharing
A very basic but useful idea. " ...Information technology security, big data analysis and interoperability are three of the hottest topics today, particularly in light of questions about how much personal information government…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Postmaster Shipping API
Nice to see this development for a government service that is often seen as behind the times. In TechCrunch. Supply chain activities continue to be aided by analytics.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Getting the Most from Conferences
As you may already know, the 2014 CSTA conference on K-12 computer science education will take place July 14 and 15 at the beautiful Pheasant Run resort in St. Charles , IL (just outside of Chicago) and CSTA wants to make sure…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: <i>Magnapinna</i> Squid Photo
Neat photo. Video, too.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Opportunity Matters
I was having a conversation with my friend Ken Royal today. I was sharing with him some of the experiences I was able to have over the last couple of years meeting and visiting with computer science teachers around the country…
From Schneier on Security
Reddit "Ask Me Anything"
I just did an AMA on Reddit.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Thinking from One Observation
In The HBR: Think like anthropologist to understand consumer data. " ... It was hardly what you’d call an “adequate sample size” for market research, but the results were nevertheless eye-opening for the maker of a pain-relief…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: Proposals for Visioning Activities due December 1
In September, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) put out a call for visioning proposals for workshops that will create exciting visions and agendas for research at the frontiers of computing. Proposals are due December…
From BLOG@CACM
Spanning the Chasm of the K–12 and Post-Secondary Relationship
This article describes the sometimes fraught relationship between K–12 computer science teachers and university computer science faculty. It decribes how CSTA has navigated this divide and attempted to bring hamony to this often…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Pioneer Auction at Sothebys
Of interest, Includes Apple's SVP of Design, today at 7 PM EST:" ... Two of the world’s foremost design pioneers, Sir Jonathan Ive, KBE, and Marc Newson, CBE, have collaborated with musician and philanthropist Bono to organize…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software as Reorganizing the World
Some provocative views on software and internet influence on the organization of the world. Over reaching I think, but interesting. Will countries eventually be less physical and more like Clouds in a technical sense. He…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Updates Search
This change happened a month plus ago, but it is worth thinking about. Have you seen substantial changes in your space?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search, Past and Future and Semantic
In GigaOM: the future of search: " ... As consumers look for the answers to complicated questions via search query, with the help of semantic technology, marketers can try to sell that same consumer what they searched for soon…
From BLOG@CACM
26 Years of Supercomputing
From humble beginnings 26 years ago to today, the annual SC conference has shaped our community and our technologies.
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Tableau with Boxplots and R
Have used the Tableau Systems data visualization, we looked at it before it came out of Stanford University around 2002. I continue to use it, among other visualization systems. The latest version, 8.1, has some useful features…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and Big Science
In CACM: About the integration of high performance computing (HPC) and Big Data. As the article suggests, the result of this is to create more data. And I add, more opportunity for analytics.Related Technical Paper. Synergistic…
From Schneier on Security
Rerouting Internet Traffic by Attacking BGP
Renesys is reporting that Internet traffic is being manipulatively rerouted, presumably for eavesdropping purposes. The attacks exploit flaws in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Ars Technica has a good article explaining …
From BLOG@CACM
Big Data Analyzed By Big Compute, Big Compute Creates Big Data
The science and engineering communities have worked together through several 1,000x leaps in computing capability, each time managing to push the boundaries of the application of these technologies to the problems faced by our…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consortium Forming an Industrial Internet
Via colleague Shoumen Datta:US Consortium Forming an Industrial InternetSAN JOSE, Calif. – As many as ten companies including AT&T, Cisco Systems, GE, IBM, and Intel are working with US government representatives to form a consortium…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics e-News Newsletter
Another good resource, and links to papers from Informs, the authoritative resource for modeling and business systems improvement. Always worth reading.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data and HR
In the Atlantic: Good general, non technical piece. True as the article says, they are watching you at work. They are also watching you as you work in your social contexts before they hire you. Data mining and Big Data techniques…
From Wild WebMink
Chocolate Martini Redux
Almost ten years ago I posted a recipe for a very different style of chocolate martini. Most of the variants of this drink I have tried have had a chocolate taste but a texture that seems incongruously light and watery. Not this…