Communications of the ACM
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December 2011
From Apophenia
Four Difficult Questions Regarding Bullying and Youth Suicide
Over the last couple of years, I’ve laid awake at night asking myself uncomfortable questions about bullying and teen suicide. I don’t have answers to most of the questions that I have, but I’m choosing to voice my questions,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Changing Presentations: Prezi
I was reminded of the Prezi presentation system by a link Jerry Michalski sent me today. It is an interesting, Cloud based, unique method to construct visualizations and presentations. Sometimes called a 'zooming user interface'…
From Computational Complexity
Is this problem too hard for a HS Math Competition
The Univ of MD HS Math Competition has two parts. Part I is 25 multiple choice questions in 2 hours (4 points for a correct answer, -2 for an incorrect answer). If you do well on it (the threshold changes from year to year) then…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Highlights: Predicting Hurricanes, Visualizing Research, and Perceiving Leaning
A series of computing research advances making the news in the past week: A New Forecasting Algorithm to Predict Hurricane Intensity and Wind Speed Scientists at Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Intelligent Data Analysis…
From Schneier on Security
First-Person Account of a TSA Airport Screener
This is a few years old, but I seem not to have blogged it before.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 December 2012
Last week I posted a list of some of the great computer science related blogs I read on a regular basis (Computer Science Education Blog Roll) Week after week these people share ideas and thoughts and tools that really make a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Sends Medical Data to the Cloud
This relates to an effort I am currently examining from a business analytics angle:" ... A plan to send medical data to the cloud.Some 133 million Americans suffer from chronic disease, and many would benefit from better home…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car as a Platform
A Tablet integrated into a car. Revolutionary, or just dangerous? Renault has launched what it describes as a
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on the Kahn Academy in Higher Education
This remains a very interesting approach to providing educational snippets to all:As a fledgling voice of reform in higher education, Salman Khan is an oddity. He cannot name any higher education accrediting agencies off the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Problem with Requirements
From Business Genetics. The Problem with Requirements AKA the Requirements of the Problem. by David McGinness. '... Too often companies make large investments in Information Technology projects which fail to deliver the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Map Library
I mentioned the oddly named Biggerplate some time ago. A repository of thousands of mind maps that you can access freely, then edit and use for your own purposes. Recall that mind maps are a simplified form of what we called…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting links 11 December 2011
Last week I posted a list of some of the great computer science related blogs I read on a regular basis (Computer Science Education Blog Roll) Week after week these people share ideas and thoughts and tools that really make a…
From Wild WebMink
? A Sandman Reading List
Books for the fans of @NeilHimself's Sandman series
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breakthroughs in Learning Algorithms
In CACM: Some technical notes on a 'Terascale' learning algorithm. Pointed at new sources of very big data. Learning is the very crux of artificial intelligence. All intelligent systems must adapt, otherwise you may well…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation is Everyone's Job
I think this is very obvious. But it is up to the enterprise to establish the right context to produce innovation. Context based on the company's goals, and the employee's job, and a contextual feedback and reward mechanism…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Institute of General Semantics
Discovered. This is not about computational semantics, the form I have most often encountered, but behavior. Worth knowing about. " ... The Institute of General Semantics (IGS) promotes a scientific approach to understanding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuro-Semiotics Applied
My former colleague J Duncan Berry is interviewed about Neuro-Semiotics. A topic he introduced me to. See also his site. He describes himself as a ' ... "visual equity analyst." His work centers on re-animating a brand's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Scientists Needed
Not unexpected, with more data being gathered than ever before, sensors becoming common, and business analytics leveraging this data towards business leverage, that we are increasingly in need of data scientists. More in Data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Ready for Big Data
Some useful thoughts and real world examples from the McKinsey quarterly. And ultimately how we have to integrate both business process definition and business analytics closely with the data itself. That will lead ultimately…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Disruption
In Mashable, thoughts about digital disruption. yes we know this already, but it deserves repeating:" ... No matter what industry you are in, you are their target. Where you could once dismiss digital disruption as the sole…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Humbolt Squid Mystery Solved
Humbolt Squid off the coast of Mexico are spawning younger and smaller than usual. El Nino is to blame. The mystery was solved by a class of biology students. (A blog of the expedition.)
As usual, you can also use this squid…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
33 Days Later, the DARPA Shredder Challenge is Solved
Last Friday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the end of its
From The Eponymous Pickle
General Mills Portal for Open Innovation
A good example of a CPG company looking for new ideas. Open innovation at work: " ... General Mills launched G-WIN Digital, an avenue for consumers to give the food company feedback on applications and games. Consumers with…
From Wild WebMink
Abusing Open Source Trust
Selling downloaders to the highest bidder with the cloud equivalent of adware is an abuse of the trust of the open source communities creating the software. Read more over on ComputerWorldUK.
From Schneier on Security
Robbing a Bank as Part of a Penetration Test
A funny story.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping Carts Tracking Every Move
A piece by Martin Lindstrom on the dynamic activation of shopping carts to track the movement of shoppers. The idea is not new, we utilized the basic idea as far back as 2000. Primarily in experimental retail places. The…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Kudos to the New RCMP Commissioner
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, our federal police force, recently had its 23rd commissioner formally installed. There have been problems with the previous commissioners, but from what I'm hearing so far from Bob Paulson,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Subliminal Sound Ads on Your Phone
In Engadget: Ads to be triggered on you phone based on subliminal sound at a given location. This is a little like augmented reality, which can be triggered by GPS location. Opt-in I would assume.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Technology Driven World
In Forbes: How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimistic Time: A Techonomy Manifesto .. The conference mentioned is now over, but the thoughts are interesting: " ... Despite all our optimism, tech is no panacea. There are real…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tricks of Holiday Marketing
Martin Lindstrom is interviewed in Bloomberg on the complexity of holiday retail marketing. " ... In an interview with Bloomberg.com