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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Names Its 2011 Fellows
ACM is out with its 2011 Fellows, 46 of its members
From Computational Complexity
A Great Time to be a Computer Scientist
Ask your friends if they'll be driving an electric car in ten years. The answer: No, cars will be driving us. Today is the 105th anniversary of the birth of computing pioneer Grace Murray Hopper and Computer Science Education…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Can Coding Really Change the World?
Is there any question that technology-based innovations like PCs, the world-wide web, social media and smart phones have fundamentally changed the way we work, communicate, govern, educate and so much more? While Apple and others…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From BLOG@CACM
Planting Seeds in the Field of Knowledge
In these challenging economic times, universities are under great stress--economically, politically, and socially. It is tempting for those of us in computing to ignore these issues but, like agriculture and engineering before…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Acquire DemandTec: Delivers Analytics via the Cloud
I see in a press release that IBM has agreed to acquire DemandTec. Our enterprise retail innovation center was an early evaluator of DemandTec, which brought advanced analytics to key retail and manufacturing processes. I…
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Defense of Gamification
In Gigaom: " ... Gamifications can have a bad rap, admits Gabe Zichermann, CEO of Gamification.Co. He said people think it means turning everything into Angry Birds.... But he said companies are increasingly turning to gamification…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IARPA Seeking Machine Learning Breakthroughs
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is out with a request for information (RFI) this month, seeking input on “a possible future IARPA investment (such as a program or grand challenge)” in automatic machine…
From Apophenia
Opportunities not to miss
Over the last six weeks, I’ve posted various opportunities for students, academics, and other scholars that I’m co-directing/hosting, many of which have deadlines looming. I want to summarize them in one post for those who either…
From Schneier on Security
Lockable USB Hard Drive
Just in time for Christmas, a USB drive housed in a physical combination lock.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why I’m Still Excited about Computer Science
It’s computer science education week and that has me thinking about what I’d like to tell students about computer science. So I decided to record something on the subject.
The short version is that 38 years after the life…From Computer Science Teachers Association
It Is All About the Celebration
CSEdWeek is all about the celebration. We celebrate the teachers who share the challenge and the excitement of the discipline with their students, we celebrate the students who, through their study of computer science, are transitioning…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NY Times Keeps Talking Computing
In addition to Tuesday’s special Science Times describing the future of computing, The New York Times
From Schneier on Security
DARPA Unshredding Contest
DARPA held an unshredding contest, and there's a winner:
"Lots of experts were skeptical that a solution could be produced at all let alone within the short time frame," said Dan Kaufman, director, DARPA Information Innovation…From Putting People First
Why service design is the next big thing in cultural innovation
Rohan Gunatillake, the lead producer of festivalslab (the Edinburgh Festival Innovations Lab) gives four reasons why new thinking and tools can produce better experiences. “Here at the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab, we explore…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Education Blog Roll
I’m a firm believer that blogs are a great way for teachers to share ideas and builds community. Supporting that sort of community is why I have many blogs listed on the side of this blog’s home page. But that format is limited…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Higher Education Bubble
I have been hearing this term used more and more. It has a Wikipedia entry. I am still old school on this, but can see some of the symptoms. It is likely better to focus education better than it has been done before.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Siri Changing Education
Received, interesting thoughts. " ... We at Onlinecollege.org recently came across your blog and were excited to share with you an article
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking the Funnel
A very good article on the innovation funnel. We actively used the concept in new business development efforts to think about work planned and underway. I like these new thoughts about the metaphor. Worth a read.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
About to Get Nutty Around Here
Things are about to get really nutty, and I expect I won't be able to post to the blog too much in the next 6-8 weeks (though I will still try to get some content here!). So here's a quick update to keep you going.I've beenWebster…
From Schneier on Security
Skype Security Flaw
Just announced:
The researchers found several properties of Skype that can track not only users' locations over time, but also their peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing activity, according to a summary of the findings on the NYU…From Computer Science Teachers Association
Getting Students to Think Beyond the Classroom in CS Ed Week
During CS Ed Week I thought I would find some things that may not be what I normally "teach" in CS. I thought I would find things that would make my students think about the world, think about things bigger than themselves, …
From Computational Complexity
What is a Breakthrough?
The recent discussion on Matrix Mult inspires the general question of WHAT IS A BREAKTHROUGH? Last year I tried to get an intelligent discussion on this topic but I failed. After saying what some criteria were I applied them …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Supply Chain Visibility
Video in CGT: How Amway achieved global supply chain visibility.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Temperature
So what does the concept of 'data temperature' mean? Summarized here, with links to more detail:- Hot = accessed all the time, or extremely important data requiring sub-second response times- Medium = is data accessed most-…
From Apophenia
What is the Role of Technology in Human Trafficking?
Networked technologies
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NY Times
If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the Science Times in yesterday’s
From Schneier on Security
Tagging People with Invisible Ink
In Montreal, police marked protesters with invisible ink to be able to identify them later. The next step is going to be a spray that marks people surreptitiously, maybe with SmartWater.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Could You Pass the AP Computer Science Exam?
There is an article in the Washington Post about a school board member who took a standardized test for 10th grade students. To say he didn’t do well would be an understatement. This got me to wondering – how would professional…
From Putting People First
Homesense final report
Homesense was a research project that looked at how we might design smart homes from the bottom up, in an environment of open innovation. Using open source tools Homesense brings the open collaboration methods of online communities…