Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2008
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Students Do Not Take APCS
I recently heard a statistic that 30% of the students who take AP Computer Science go on to major in computer science in college. While this may sound like an impressive statistic, it only serves to highlight one of the systemic…
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 9
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to December 5
The End Of Online AnonymityI've always said that anonymity is a privilege to be justified and treasured and Sarah Perez seems to support that view her in her discussion of the consequences of the MySpace bullying case and it's…
From insideHPC
Time to Learn Functional
Credit to Multicoreinfo.com for the pointer to this article by Michael Swaine for Dr. Dobb’s that examines functional programming’s merits (and demerits) Michael examines functional languages like Scala, F#, Erlang, and Haskell…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Native XML Databases: Have They Taken the World Over Yet?
Some years ago, the database research community jumped into XML. Finally, something new to work on! For about 5 years now, I have seen predictions that the XML databases would take the world over. Every organization would soon…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Homeland Security Committee Looks to 2009
The majority staff of the House Homeland Security Committee hosted a workshop December 3 on "Constitutional Protections in Homeland Security." A copy of the agenda is currently available on the Committee's schedule page. The…
From Putting People First
Getting Real About Agile Design
Very good and long article by Cennydd Bowles on the relation between design and agile development. “For many designers, Agile is already a fact of life (and for those less accustomed, some recommended reading follows at the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Couponing in the Digital Age
Good overview piece on digital couponing via NielsenWire. Particularly interesting mention of using cellphones and other devices for coupon acquisition, management and delivery. I have linked with and posted about the company…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Department of Defense S&T video
This new DoD S&T video is absolutely worth 4:56 of your time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lLDNosedHk It’s inspirational. – Ed Lazowska
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to November 30
Europe backs mobile roaming capThis is something that is so clearly necessary, both for consumer protection from price gouging and for development of the technology base of society, that the comment by GSMA ("The GSM Association…
From CSDiary
Happy Birthday, Geek Style
Today is my birthday, something that is almost impossible to forget nowadays due to Facebook announcing it to my entire circle of online friends. ;-) Last year I wrote about the very nice painting that Carlos Guestrin gave…
From insideHPC
Hyperion in
My friend Joab Jackson has written a good summary of LLNL’s Hyperion effort at Government Computer News One of the biggest challenges for managers of high-production computer systems is testing new code or hardware before it…