Communications of the ACM
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February 2009
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Growth Animation
In Visualizing Economics, an animation of the growth of Wal-Mart across the US over time. This would be good at shareholders meeting with music in the background. I do not see much insight in this kind of visual.
From insideHPC
Kenworth
When one sees a large commercial truck roll down the highway, aerodynamic efficiency doesn’t usually come to mind.
From Putting People First
How to keep innovating
Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton outlines some counter-propositions to the idea of achieving mastery and the dogged pursuit of excellence:
Always be bad at something that you are passionate about. You can be…From Putting People First
Book: Innovating for and by users
Innovating for and by users Edited by Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer, Eug
From Putting People First
Does UX still matter in tough economic times
“Does UX still matter in tough economic times,” asks Temple University librarian Steven Bell on the blog “Designing Better Libraries”. “Promoting the user experience is still a good strategy - even in recessionary times. And…
From insideHPC
University of Louisville Buys IBM
HPCWire: The University of Louisville has announced the delivery of a new IBM supercomputer.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Presents Research Status on Voting Systems
In response to a request from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted research on six specific areas in connection to voting systems. We posted about that request…
From insideHPC
NMCAC and Dreamworks/Cerelink
The New Mexico Computing Applications Center has announced a collaboration with media firms DreamWorks Animation SKG and Cerelink DMG to explore the development of a cloud computing service for computer generated film rendering…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Secure
Good straightforward piece on helping secure your online presence. Which has been on my mind lately.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self-Employment
Steve King looks at the current state of self-employment.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturers and Word of Mouth
From Consumer Goods Technology: Manufacturers Underestimate Power of Word-of-Mouth. They overview a paper from Colloquy, which publishes research about market loyalty.
From The Eponymous Pickle
DecisionPower
Ken Karakotsios of DecisionPower, a long time correspondent of mine is in the midst of putting together a blog about simulation topics. I will report on that when it is ready.I reviewed the DecisionPower site today and I was…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Ends Promotional Display Tagging
P&G has tested the use of RFID tags to confirm that promotional displays are being deployed. This article discusses their current ending of a test with Wal-Mart to tag promotional displays, while there still seems to be evidence…
From BLOG@CACM
Making the Case For an ACM Fellow
Every year there are surely some qualified candidates for ACM Fellow who are rejected because their nomination and endorsements do not make the case as effectively as possible. Here are some ways to make a strong case.
From insideHPC
Red Hat and Windows to support each others
Timothy Prickett Morgan reports from The Register this week that Red Hat and Microsoft have been coerced by customers into playing nice with each other Operating system suppliers Red Hat, which is the leading commercial Linux…
From insideHPC
Coding in the cloud, Mozilla
Michael Feldman has been reliving his past coding glory (not everyone knows he used to do compiler work for a living), as reflected in a blog post yesterday While a lot of the talk surrounding productivity in the HPC space has…
From insideHPC
TPC video overview of the new energy efficiency
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is working on several new benchmarks this year, one of which is an energy efficiency benchmark. Here’s a link to a YouTube video featuring Mike Nikolaiev from HP (chair of…
From insideHPC
SiCortex hardware supports Virtual
A quick search of past posts verifies that, yes, this is the first pairie-related post here in nearly three thousand news posts. Sure, its a niche record, but I’m counting it. From SiCortex today Researchers at the University…
From insideHPC
SDSC gets grant for cloud computing research on Google
Found at HPCwire, news that researchers at SDSC have gotten a two year grant of $450,000 from the NSF The NSF award focuses on the Cluster Exploratory (CluE), a distributed, large-scale computing resource formed in late 2007…
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup for February 18
Why the UK Directory Enquiries Deregulation Failed "In particular, with limits on information and rationality, it may sometimes be better to limit choice but increase competition to supply that choice." Once again it seems aUniversal…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Solving New and Difficult Theory Problems . . . Without Looping Into Oblivion
Sometimes you decide that you need a specific theoretical result. For example, you may need a closed form formula for a given quantity. Yet, you barely know how to begin. Maybe you end up looping; you keep on revisiting the same…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Show not Tell in Retail
Herb Sorensen of TNS posts another great article about the current cluttered environment in retail and how we need to think more about design that shows as opposed to telling ... and is less about rational cognition. In the"…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
An Effective ELL Strategy for Computer Science Classes
I'm sitting in my office printing out cards to send to students to invite them to enroll in a computer course. I am using the AP Potential list from the College Board provides. It includes the students that the College Board…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Does Neuromarketing Work?
A good video by AK Pradeep CEO of Neurofocus, Does Neuromarketing Work?. Good overview, but not too much actual predictive detail.
From Springenwerk Blog
Future of Web Apps Dublin 2009
Hi fellow nerds. Scotland on Rails was sold out before I could get a ticket, but I'll be at FOWA Dublin next month. The lineup looks great and I'm sure we'll have a blast! Who else is coming? It would be great to meet up.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Volume
Unilever seeks to boost value and volume this year.
From insideHPC
New Mexico Inks Commercial Deals For
The Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, was back at the Intel plant in Rio Rancho yesterday.
From BLOG@CACM
Pipelining, Computing Innovation And Economic Growth
In this economic downturn, as everyone looks with a wary eye at discretionary spending, it is instructive to consider the role of computing technology and innovation in our global economy.
From Putting People First
Whitepaper: Public Media 2.0
The Center for Social Media of the American University in Washington has published a new whitepaper entitled:
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2009-02-17 [del.icio.us]
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