Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2011
From The Eponymous Pickle
Material Properties Search
From MIT News: Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patients Want Links to Doctor's Notes
In InformationWeek: Ultimately not only to read, but to link with other sources of health expertise.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Tournament at P&G
A considerable description of how P&G used a tournament method to address this problem:Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald is a man with a plan. Last year, he and his company declared a bold vision -- one that includes making all…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
USPTO Seeking Text Recognition, Image Analysis Algorithms
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), together with the recently created
From The Eponymous Pickle
Silicon Halton
Chris Herbert of Mi6 Agency sends along this news article about Silicon Halton near Toronto. Startups via social connections. How can social connections be best used to link customers and solutions? Good luck to Halton.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paywall Penalties
In GigaOm: A good piece on the increasing use of Paywalls on the Web. Should we be penalizing the loyalty of customers while we are exposing them to paying advertisers? Engagement should be more clearly defined, and loyalty…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Mind Map
A business intelligence mind map that covers most of the territory typically included in BI and its implications. Informative.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Big Data Bet, with Watson and More.
Another step forward for big and bigger data:" On the same day that IBM passed Microsoft in market cap, Big Blue showed how it will ride the growth of big data to continue its momentum. IBM announced a new $100 million investment…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
In the December 2011 Communications of the ACM, CCC Council member and MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Frans Kaashoek discusses multicore computing, security, and OS design: Kaashoek has … conducted…
From Schneier on Security
Multiple Protocol Attacks
In 1997, I wrote about something called a chosen-protocol attack, where an attacker can use one protocol to break another. Here's an example of the same thing in the real world: two different parking garages that mask different…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS AP Principles
A number of universities around the US are piloting courses to fit the proposed Advanced Placement CS Principles course. At the University of Washington Bothell Professor Kelvin Sung had the idea to create an CS principles course…
From The Eponymous Pickle
10X Accelerator at Ohio State
Just brought to my attention: 10-xelerator or "10x" is the newest New Venture Accelerator in Columbus, Ohio. 10x is a mentorship-driven investment program designed for energetic and game-changing entrepreneurs. 10x is partnering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computers With Mind Control Soon
In IBM's A Smarterplanet Blog: They predict a number of expected things. One is that mind control will take over a number of computer interfaces such as cursor/focus control. Not very unexpected, the idea has been around …
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Online
In GigaOM: A revision of their previous online course system. " ... Next spring, MIT will launch a pilot of MITx online-only courses geared to reach prospective learners everywhere. The university said it will open source…
From Schneier on Security
How to Open a Padlock with a Coke Can
A nice tutorial on making and using shims to open padlocks.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Compressing document-oriented databases by rewriting your documents
The space utilization of relational databases can be estimated quickly. If you create a table made of three columns, each containing an integer, you can expect the database to use roughly 12 bytes per row, plus some overhead.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Spices at McCormick
Cooking is a strong side interest of mine. I see in MediaPost they describe how the McCormick spice company is trying some new social plays on Facebook. It is in the most mundane product lines that social can strongly spice…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IE Group
Just brought to my attention: " ... IE Group. IEG - The Innovation Enterprise Group shares the knowledge of innovators in Forecasting & Planning through its research, conferences, communities, training and virtual & on-demand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP and the Cloud
When I was a fellow at the SNCR we saw a presentation by SAP about their planned use of social and Cloud systems. It was an impressive plan for next steps. I was surprised by their lack of work in the following several years…
From Computational Complexity
Romney vs. Aaronson
How are Mitt Romney and Scott Aaronson similar? Different?
Similarities:
Both live in Massachusetts. Actually, Scott lives there but its not clear where Mitt lives since he's been running for president for the last four…From Schneier on Security
Plasmonics Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
This could be interesting:
NOtES exploits an obscure area of physics to accomplish its bright and sharp display, known asFrom Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 December 2011
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration at the Mayo Clinic
Collaborative Innovation at Mayo. This is exactly the kind of thing I have been thinking about for some time. What is different from most kinds of innovation is that the patient is also included. Why not? They are the recipient…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fashion, Style, Deals: Stylezen
A new site I have been pointed to: Stylezen. More to follow. Style is a good thing to link to on the Web.
From My Biased Coin
Congratulations to Hanspeter Pfister
Despite our really very good track record for the last decade or so, there are some people out there who remain under the misimpression that it's impossible to get tenure at Harvard.So I'm very happy to announce that Hanspeter…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
STEM and Humanities: It Isn't Either-Or
I think of STEM and humanities as being the bookends of a quality education. Everyone needs exposure to and experience with both, or their education is incomplete and inadequate. Why do I think this?
There's an interesting…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
In the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Entity Web
Matthew Hurst on competencies in the entity Web. A look at the future of this thing we loosely call the Web and what it will take to interact with it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Memories and Applying them
Repeating and updating this post because I think there is considerable value in the application of Associative memory systems. I had the opportunity to read a draft of this book during a long flight and was very impressed.Saffron…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Look
A slide show look at the near future by Phil McKinney of HP: " ... the future impact will be in 2020 to: social dynamics, personal entertainment, intelligent networks, gadgets and ubiquitous content ... "