Communications of the ACM
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February 2010
From Computational Complexity
FOCS 2010 CALL FOR PAPES is out!
(Univ of MD at College Park had Monday, Tuesday, Wed, Thursday all off. I've spend most of that time shoveling snow, so I am tired. Hence I am glad to have a SHORT post today- easier on the hands and arms.)
FOCS 2010 call…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Learning Photography with Augmented Reality
This is the first in a three-part series of design proposals for augmented reality learning applications. These are from a paper I wrote in my computers and cognition class. I'll be reworking the main ideas in the paper forOptics…
From BLOG@CACM
Mimi Ito on Amateur Media: Incremental, Experimental
When late night comedy can't retain an audience but a man lipsynching in his chair nets more than 700 million views, we know that something is up. What makes amateur media production tick, what makes it successful, and where…
From My Biased Coin
FOCS 2010 Call for Papers is Up
Luca Trevisan sent me the link for the call for FOCS 2010. Key points: The deadline is April 7. And, in a move that I approve of, there's no page limit on submissions -- instead, "Material other than the abstract, references…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Junk Chart Book
The author of the always interesting Junk Chart Blog, Kaiser Fung, now has a book out. Described in the blog and now available: Numbers Rule Your World: The hidden influence of probability and statistics on everything you do.…
From BLOG@CACM
CSCW Day 3: Homelessness & Technology
As I looked out the window of my plane at the sun setting on the horizon, turning the clouds a deep red, I began piecing my thoughts together for this final blog post on CSCW '10. In Time Travel is Now Possible and Investigating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Site-less Web
Paul Gillin has a good post on the emergence of a site-less web. An evolution is occurring, though I think that there will always have to be anchoring points like web sites. Good read with some excellent examples includings some…
From Schneier on Security
Interview with a Nigerian Internet Scammer
Scam-Detective: How did you find victims for your scams?
John: First you need to understand how the gangs work. At the bottom are the "foot soldiers", kids who spend all of their time online to
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Cell Phone Wallets
In Forbes: Smart phones as payment systems. Considerable implications because smartphone acting as a wallet is also a communications device at the point of sale moment of truth. This can only evolve to new modes of marketing…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-02-11
While Matthew's discussion is good (and the links are very useful), he misses the key point: that communities where one member has significantly more rights than all the …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Contests
In various contexts the subject of programming contests has come up in conversations I have been having with both teachers and friends in industry. There are, to my way of thinking, two sorts of programming contests. I call them…
From BLOG@CACM
Thinking Globally, Thinking Locally: Infrastructures For Collaboration
What does it take for people to collaborate in spite of geographical, disciplinary and cultural differences? This article looks at the work of two researchers who are how technology can play a role in effective collaborations…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
FOSS Workshop Kicks Off: Day 1
Forty-five people met today in Newport Beach, CA for the first day of a three-day workshop supported by the CCC on Free/Open Source Software.
From Apophenia
Testing
Please ignore…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Buzz in Use
I am now signed into Google Buzz and understand generally how it works. I have also attached this blog to Buzz to see how that works. It also integrates location knowledge. Join up and follow if you would like to join in my experiment…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Open Sourcing your software hurts your competitiveness as a researcher?
Almost all software I write for my research is open sourced. Some fellow researcher argued today that I risk reducing the gap between and my pursuers. Similarly, I should keep my data to myself (and avoid listing good sources…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overcome Media Fragmentation with Next-Generation Marketing Planning Tools
Upcoming webinar of interest, given on March 18, 2010, click through for more information, times and registration:Program: Consumer Goods Technology webCONNECTIONseries Panelist(s) Info: Moderator: Kara Romanow, Executive Editor…
From Schneier on Security
Terrorists Prohibited from Using iTunes
The iTunes Store Terms and Conditions prohibits it:
Notice, as I read this clause not only are terrorists -- or at least those on terrorist watch lists -- prohibited from using iTunes to manufacture WMD, they are also prohibited…From The Eponymous Pickle
SNCR Research Briefing
' ... Please join the Society for New Communications Research, Middleberg Communications and Marketwire for a complimentary research briefing on February 25th at 10:00 am ET / 1:00pm PT. During this briefing, SNCR founder and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Poka-Yoke
We often spoke about Poka-Yoke in the enterprise. Also known as fail-safing. Designing the process so it is impossible or much harder to make big errors. Despite recent errors in car accelerator design, the Japanese pioneered…
From Putting People First
The future of reading
Josh Quittner of Fortune Magazine reflects on how tables will change magazines, books and newspapers. “In fact, for the past year I’ve been pushing the theory that the Age of Tablets will give print media one last bite at the…
From Computational Complexity
STOC and More
From Schneier on Security
Dahlia Lithwick on Terrorism Derangement Syndrome
In Slate.
From Wild WebMink
? Testing Times
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Small Basic 0.8 Now with Silverlight
There is a new version of Small Basic out this week. More details about it on the Small Basic blog but briefly:
This release features:
Addition of details about your published programs.
From Putting People First
Dan Ariely: hidden forces that shape our decisions
In an interview on the website of Forbes India, the renowned behavioural economist Dan Ariely talks about some of the hidden forces that shape our decisions. “For years, my colleagues and I have been conducting experiments about…
From Putting People First
Some ditch social networks to reclaim time, privacy
As the social networking train gathers momentum, some riders are getting off. USA Today reports. “Their reasons run the gamut from being besieged by online “friends” who aren’t really friends to lingering concerns over where…
From Putting People First
Reflecting on the Interaction10 conference
Both Jon Kolko (frog design) and Rob Tannen (Bresslergroup) reflect on their experience at the Interaction10 conference that took place last weekend in Savannah, Georgia. Jon’s thoughtful analysis starts with a reflection on…
From Putting People First
Live at Interaction
Niklas Wolkert & Brad Nunnally round up their reporting on Johnnyy Holland on the Interaction10 conference in Savannah, Georgia – this time focused on the third and final day. This review covers presentations by Jeffery Blais…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why do People Share Information?
A topic we studied in the enterprise. This NYTimes article presents some non-obvious answers. Because we wrote our own e-mail system in the 70s, we had lots of experience in the dynamic of how people communicate. Later, we understood…