Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2010
From The Eponymous Pickle
Networks of Innovation
Mark Montgomery of Kyield posts on networks of innovation lectures by Andrew Haradon given at the Santa Fe Institute. Links to the lectures included. This also reminds me of SFI's resources on the web, which are useful. Mark…
From Michael Nielsen
From Waterloo to Seattle
I’m deeply engrossed in finishing my book at the moment, but wanted to mention two events which readers of this blog might enjoy hearing about, and perhaps attending. The first event is a panel on open source democracy that’s…
From Wild WebMink
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From Putting People FirstAmericans increasingly elevating experiences over things
Quietly but noticeably over the past year, Americans have rejiggered their lives to elevate experiences over things, reports The New York Times. “Because of the Great Recession, a recent New York Times/CBS News poll has found…
From Putting People FirstNicolas Nova: from observing failures to provoking them
The annotated slides from the talk
From The Eponymous PickleIn Context Innovation
In the World Flattener, via Sammy Haroon, a favorite topic of mine. ' ... Prith Banerjee, Director of HP Labs talks about the importance of innovation in-context of the consumer's environmen ... ' -
From The Eponymous PickleReport from Computer Supported Cooperative Work
From CACM: ' ... The papers I have chosen to focus on from each of these sessions revisit longstanding problems in computer science and HCI, ranging from what to do when collaborators lose a network connection to examining the…
From The Eponymous PickleInnovative Online Business Models
A sample of innovative online business models from Openforum. I have seen most of these, but the reminder is useful.
From My Biased CoinNews Roundup
This just in -- computer science students at Stanford cheat! I love this quote: "Historically, the computer science department accounts for between 20 to 60 percent of all honor-code cases, even though the courses represent…
From The Computing Community Consortium BlogComputer Engineer Barbie!
As noted in a previous post, Mattel has been running a web-based contest to choose Barbie’s next career. The results are in!
From Schneier on SecurityRadio Interview
I was interviewed on the New Horizons radio show in Boise.
From Wild WebMinklinks for 2010-02-13
On advertisements online, that is. Really not a surprise, but it does mean that Google falls into the same category as the lottery - a tax on the gullible…
From Computer Science Teachers AssociationBlogroll
Did you know that January is (US) National Clean Up Your Computer month? I didn't manage to clean up my computer, but I did clean up my blog subscriptions, by deleting ones I don't read very often. Here are the computer science…
From The Computing Community Consortium BlogFOSS Workshop Day 3 Wrap-up
The Free/Open Source Software workshop wrapped up today.
From Schneier on SecurityFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Record
I don't know which is more exciting: that someone is trying to break the squid record, or that there is a squid record in the first place.
An Auckland scientist is attempting to break his own world record for rearing deep sea…
From The Eponymous PickleProving Mobile ROI
A good case study in StorefrontBackTalk on the ROI from mobile marketing efforts by Pizza-Hut.-
From The Eponymous PickleSustainability Impact on Supply Chain Workshop
This looks to be very interesting, if you are in the Cincinnati area consider attending: Sixth Annual Workshop on Hot Topics in Supply Chain Analytics, Practice, and TechnologySustainability's Impact On The Supply ChainCome hear…
From Schneier on SecurityCrypto Comic Book
From The Eponymous PickleWhole Foods and Social Media
Case study on Whole Foods using social media. ' ... Even if you
From Schneier on SecurityHomebrew Cryptography
Nice article about a would-be spy and his homebrew pencil-and-paper cryptography.
From Daniel Lemire's BlogThe best software developers are great at Mathematics?
One of the upsides of working for a university are the stimulating academic discussions. Yesterday, a philosopher challenged me a question: Beyond the fact that software is expressed in Mathematics artefacts (bits, algorithms)…
From The Eponymous PickleProgress in Quantum Algorithms
In CACM: Recent Progress in Quantum Algorithms: What quantum algorithms outperform classical computation and how do they do it?. The early parts of this article are a good introduction to this topic, worth reading to get up to…
From The Eponymous PickleSolving Household Problems
In the Enterprise a key goal was intimately understanding the needs of the consumer. It can be done in part by talking to many of them in contextual environments, and it can also be done by talking to others that have workedA…
From Schneier on SecurityCar-Key Copier
This< is neat:
The Impressioner consists of a sensor that goes into the lock and sends information back to a computer via USB about the location of the lock's tumblers
From Wild WebMinklinks for 2010-02-12
Watch the video and see this entirely straightforward attack being carried out. There is clearly a huge issue here, and the fact the banks will claim …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred ThompsonSummer Computer Camps 2010
Last week I posted about some professional development opportunities for teachers this summer. I expect to post most in the days to come. But for now the other big question I get is about summer computer camps for students. Especially…
From BLOG@CACMTop 100 Software Tools For Learning
A brief article about a compiled list of software tools to support learning.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACMAdministration
Earlier this month the Administration released its budget request for the 2011 Fiscal Year, which will start October 1 (whether or not Congress finishes the budget by then). While the President promised a freeze on non-defense…
From The Computing Community Consortium BlogFOSS Workshop, Day 2
The attendees at the CCC-supported workshop on Free/Open Source Software met today at UC Irvine’s Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences to work in break-out groups on a refined classification scheme for open-source…
From Schneier on SecurityMan-in-the-Middle Attack Against Chip and PIN
Nice attack against the EMV -- Eurocard Mastercard Visa -- the "chip and PIN" credit card payment system. The attack allows a criminal to use a stolen card without knowing the PIN.
The flaw is that when you put a card into[…