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] Reputation Economics
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Reputation Economics: Why Who You Know Is Worth More Than What You Have by Joshua Klein Palgrave Macmillan Publisher November 2013, 256 pages [Amazon link] Abstract As the internet has increasingly become more social, the value…
From Putting People First
UX and the civilizing process
Kevin Simler is clearly a highly informed and engaging writer. In this essay, he argues that “UX is etiquette for computers“. “A focus on appearance is just one of the ways UX is like etiquette. Both are the study and practice…
From Putting People First
Behavioral change strategy cards
Artefact Group, the Seattle based design company, has posted the first installment of its Behavior Change toolkit. “We’ve curated this selection of cards to give you a sample of principles and strategies that you can apply to…
From Putting People First
Bringing sharing to Korea
Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth, gave the keynote address at the ‘Seoul Youth Hub Conference 2013, Reshaping the Way We Live’, held in Seoul, Korea from 6 to 8 November 2013. The conference was co-hosted with 8…
From Putting People First
What human experiences are we missing by adopting new technologies?
The more our data is used to determine our needs and desires, the less chance there is for serendipity, writes Bronwen Clune. Are we willing to make this concession in the name of progress? “Tracking, data mining and collaborative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wizard Technical Events is Twenty Plus
Wizard Events announces that they have been around for twenty years. I have scoped out some events with them. Congratulations! Their founder Russell Brumfield was an early innovator in this space, and is impressive in their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing Statistical Standards
Debating a standard:Whats in a 95 percent confidence?Is there something special about a 95 percent probability? Absolutely not; a recent paper referred to it as "seemingly arbitrary." It's simply been arrived at through the consensus…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Betting on Big Data
In GigaOM: Not unexpected, have been impressed by Intel's analytical work for some time. " ... Intel is using big data to improve everything from manufacturing efficiency to sales, and is increasingly looking toward technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Diagrams to Represent Competitors
New way to create infographics about your competitors. The well known petal diagram. " .... The Petal Diagram drives your business model canvas ... What the chart is saying is, “we think our customers will come from these…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Forays Into the Flipped Classroom
One of the buzzwords in education today is the flipped classroom. I was prompted to try out this model last year when I came down with a stomach bug that prevented me from going to school for four days. We were about to start…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unmasking the Puppets
From New Scientist and ACM: An experimental method to unmask sock-puppets (usually phony paid commenters, reviewers or contributors) based on the way they write.
From My Biased Coin
Easy Now
In the past year or so, I've gotten reviews back on multiple papers with the complaint that the result was too simple. My interpretation of review: sure you might have come up with an efficient data structure that solved anSuresh…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of November 18
November 19 Hearing: The House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on the data security of the Healthcare.gov website. 1o a.m., 2318 Rayburn Building The Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Not all citations are equal: identifying key citations automatically
Suppose that you are researching a given issue. Maybe you have a medical condition or you are looking for the best algorithm to solve your current problem. A good heuristic is to enter reasonable keywords in Google Scholar. This…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GoldieBlox, Rube Goldberg, & Beastie Boys "Princess Machine"
This video is so beyond awesome that it deserves its own blog post. I may or may not have shed a few tears watching it. Keep on kicking butt, GoldieBlox. We need you.
Read more about this video and project here.View this post…
From BLOG@CACM
For These Companies, It All Started With the Decision to Adopt
SC13 is featuring sixteen companies on the exhibit floor that have adopted HPC as part of their core business and, as a result, have transformed their ability to compete and succeed. From NASCAR to diapers, the HPC Impact Showcase…
From Schneier on Security
Explaining and Speculating About QUANTUM
Nicholas Weaver has a great essay explaining how the NSA's QUANTUM packet injection system works, what we know it does, what else it can possibly do, and how to defend against it. Remember that while QUANTUM is an NSA program…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 November 2013
I made a quick trip to Tucson AZ over the weekend for the CSTA Board meeting. Beautiful part of the country and I wish I had more time to explore it. But meeting are meetings. Still had a good time as the weekend was filled with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Chair Susan Graham is named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy
President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate two new members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy (PCAST). The new appointees are J. Michael McQuade, Senior Vice President of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Six Degrees of Connection to P&G
After publishing a item about an infographic I liked, about products we buy, it was pointed out that some of the data was incorrect. That is true. But I was also pointed to another infographic about c-Suite connections to"…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive AI Apps in the Cloud
More on the IBM giving access to Watson technologies to allow the building of cognitive Apps in the cloud. A good direction. The App style of infrastructure would allow lots of new experiments by developers. And it is experiments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Business Models
In the HBR: Indicating that they constantly audit their business model. Which has led to increases in the number of US warehouses, and their recent proposal to use the US postal service for Sunday deliveries in select regions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Health Care Information
In Freebeacon: How can social media information be mined for indications of health related behavior? " ... Specifically, NLM will look at the “value of tweets and other messages as teaching tools and change-agents for health…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Seeking CS Education Leaders for Board Positions
As we approach the start of the new calendar year, it is time to start the CSTA Board of Directors nominations and elections process once again. CSTA is a member organization led by a working board of directors. The affairs …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trolling IKEA
In Adage: We have an Ikea store nearby. The number of items they have is so large that it is hard to believe anyone can recognize one that is out of place. So a design agency surreptitiously placed a product there in the right…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Defensiveness in Communications
In the HBR: I like this argument about not being defensive in communications. Found myself in this position. And has some practical methods to implement it that I will try.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data is Decentralized
An aspect I had never thought about very much, but very true. " ... Let’s look at IT in a simple way. There are users, there are applications, there is hardware and there is data – just four distinct things that work together…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Graph of Math
The last part of our interview with Gödel two years ago src Kurt Gödel is said to have been a latecomer to appreciating the power of Model Theory. He was of course the greatest architect of Proof Theory, which stands in contrast…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishermen Seen from Space
Cool photo.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.