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
Where Does this Blog Come From?
This blog was originally established to communicate to visitors at Procter & Gamble's Innovation Centers. I was asked during many visits that major retailers and technology vendors had at the Center: How do I keep up to date@franzd…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Video Ubiquity
I had thought that video had become as prevasive as it could be. Good GigaOm article on how falling prices are driving it much further. Will introduce new challenges for storing and analyzing video, and big implications for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report on Spam Content of the Web
An analysis of some recent Websense stats point to the finding that " ... 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam ... " . Not sure what the specific definition of these classifications are, but my…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Bliink Web Design Competition for Texas High School Students
The Microsoft Corporation, NASA, the Texas Business & Education Coalition, and the State of Texas would like to invite you and your students to participate in the bliink web design competition exclusively for Texas High School…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Ways to Manage Knowledge
Good piece on the subject, they relate some of the same problems we saw in the enterprise regarding institutionalizing knowledge ... and implementing a solution. Note that they have looked into gaming environments for insight…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
K-12 Events at SIGCSE
I'd like to let everyone know that the early registration deadline for SIGCSE 2010 is coming up at the end of January. While SIGCSE runs from March 11-13, there is a special K-12 teachers day on Friday March 12 (and a cheaper…
From Putting People First
Live at Interaction
Niklas Wolkert & Brad Nunnally provide their second report on Johnnyy Holland on the Interaction10 conference in Savannah, Georgia – this time focused on the second day. “After a night of some great parties, and even better conversation…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Beginning to Rethink CS Education at NSF
The President released his $3.8 trillion budget on Monday setting off a flurry of activity in the Nation's Capital. The budget sets the Administration's priorities for the big stuff -- like how much he wants to spend on education…
From Schneier on Security
New Attack on Threefish
At FSE 2010 this week, Dmitry Khovratovich and Ivica Nikolic presented a paper where they cryptanalyze ARX algorithms (algorithms that use only addition, rotation, and exclusive-OR operations): "Rotational Cryptanalysis of ARX…
From BLOG@CACM
Beginning to Rethink CS Education at NSF
NSF overalls key computer science education programs.
From Wild WebMink
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From The Noisy ChannelVacation
Just letting readers know that I’ll be on vacation for the next week. If you are starved for reading materials, check out some of the blogs I read.
From The Computing Community Consortium BlogNominations Sought for Extraordinary Student Stories Award
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is sponsoring an award for K-12, undergraduate,
From The Noisy ChannelWSDM 2010: Day 3
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM.
Today is the last day of
From The Eponymous PickleHyperlocal Coupons
Hyperlocal mobile coupons for the IPhone: Mobiqpons. Tested, well done, it should further locate you when you redeem them for loyalty measures.
From The Eponymous PickleOn Associative Memory
Good overview on associative memories. We tested these during our AI days and talked to a number of vendors. The hope was that they could include some of the structure of the knowledge in the memory itself. Plus to utilize…
From BLOG@CACMWSDM 2010: Day 3
Third day of WSDM 2010.
From BLOG@CACMThe Impact of Open Source on Computing Education
Open source provides a large collection of valuable software to the world. There may be downsides to open source for computing education, especially for the goal of broadening participation in computing.
From The Eponymous PicklePaid vs Free Content
An interview with Professors Peter Fader and Stepen Kobrin of Wharton on these and other recent topics in Knowledge@Wharton
From BLOG@CACMComputer Science Student Recruitment Tips
Some thoughts on effective student recruitment strategies for boosting numbers to CS degrees.
From Putting People FirstLive at Interaction
Niklas Wolkert & Brad Nunnally report on Johnnyy Holland on the first day of the Interaction10 conference in Savannah, Georgia. “If one thing had to describe the overall theme of the first day it would be the importance of providing…
From The Noisy ChannelWSDM 2010: Day 2
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Unfortunately, I woke up this morning rather under the weather, so I’m having to resort to remotely reporting on the second day of
From My Biased CoinGuest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 2
Day two of WSDM was highlighted by two great presentations which I enjoyed for different reasons. I think the strong features of both could be incorporated in almost any talk.Carlos Castillo did a fine job of presenting "An Optimization…
From Schneier on SecurityFriday Squid Blogging: Squid Cookie
I wonder if it's tasty.
From Schneier on Security10 Cartoons about Airport Security
A slide show.
From The Eponymous PickleProcter Buys Doctor Network
In BizJournals: " ... Procter & Gamble has purchased the remaining shares of the doctors network that it acquired a minority stake in three years ago. The 350 doctors in the network provide enhanced services, on the theory that…
From The Eponymous PickleConnecting the Dots in your Business
Tom Davenport in HBR blogs: How to "Connect the Dots" in Your Business, one of a series of interesting posts that examine integrating data. " ... In this post, I'll describe what needs to happen if you want to connect disparate…
From Schneier on SecurityScaring the Senate Intelligence Committee
At Tuesday's hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked Mr. Blair [the Director of National Intelligence] to assess the possibility…
From BLOG@CACMWSDM 2010: Day 1
Report on first day of WSDM 2010 conference.
From BLOG@CACMWSDM 2010: Day 2
Report on 2nd day of WSDM 2010.