Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Important News For Imagine Cup Game Teams - 2011
I know that a lot of you have been working hard on games. I know that many of you who read this blog have students of teams who have been working very hard of games as well. I have some awesome news. If you submit your Gamewww…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Gems
Roger Martin of the Rotman School writes in the HBR about hidden gems in your business model. With some instructive recent examples.
From Computational Complexity
Aaron Sterling starts his own blog!
Aaron Sterling recently had an AWESOME guest post about Cheminformatics. That got such a great response that he has started his own blog Nanoexplanations. It shot to the TOP of our blogroll because we list thing alphabetically…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Unlocking the Clubhouse for Women in Computing
I spoke at the most recent book club session put on by Carleton's IEEE-WIE, WIL, and CU-WISE. At these sessions, attendees don't need to have read the book; rather, the presenter discusses what a particular book was about and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Brain Blogs
Just brought to my attention: 20 Cool Brain Blogs every Marketer Should Read. A good set of links, a number of which I had not heard of before. Will examine and report on them further here, .
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flocking Science
The natural organization of animals and people, in a number of settings has been studied for purposes of evacuation, ecology and even the arrangement of retail shelves. We examined some of the latter in the laboratory, and for…
From Schneier on Security
Terrorist-Catching Con Man
Interesting story about a con man who conned the U.S. government, and how the government is trying to hide its dealings with him.
For eight years, government officials turned to Dennis Montgomery, a California computer programmer…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching, Learning and the Job Interview
I was reading a blog post by a college professor the other day (Preparing CS students for programming interviews from day one) that starts off talking about how interviews for programming jobs are run. Typically one is asked…
From Wild WebMink
? Why You Need Document Freedom
It seems everything has a special day. Among all the various red letter days, you may not have run into Document Freedom Day, which this year is being celebrated on March 30th. Don’t for a second underestimate the importance…
From My Biased Coin
Spring Semester Update
I see it's been two months since my last post. I must admit, there are times I miss blogging. I've often felt I have something interesting to post about, but then I let the feeling pass, and I find I feel no worse the wearClaire…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking the Internet
In the Stanford News: A father knows best: Vint Cerf re-thinks the Internet in Stanford talk" .... He helped develop the Internet in the 1970s while at Stanford. Now, Vint Cerf is thinking about how to improve his creation…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Video games
Some interesting news items in the past week: “The Art of Video Games” The Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum will debut on March 16 an exhibition titled
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Election Data and Socially Relevant Computing
There is a fair bit of discussion these days about "socially relevant computing" and how connecting computing to current issues might make it more interesting to our students. I have been involved in a project with the League…
From Computational Complexity
Lincoln's Dog-Tail question (in honor of Presidents Day)
(Posted in Honor of Presidents Day.)
The following is NOT a trick question; however, I have heard two different answers for it.
How many legs would a dog have if we called the dog's tail a leg?The answer is clearly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Senior Execs Should Know What Metadata Means
Good piece in SASCom Voices (Read it all at the link): ' ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Reopens Egypt Plants
Good to see them reopening, after being closed for two weeks, they supply other demand in the middle east. More.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Video Carts
A report on the use of a video cart that amuses children with videos while pitching products to the shopper based on their location. We looked at this idea briefly. Worth recording as a location aware idea. I agree that this…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 21 February 2011
I spent several days in New York City as part of the program committee for CSTA
From Wild WebMink
? Is GNOME Open-By-Rule?
Dave Neary has kindly agreed to supply data for an Open-By-Rule evaluation of the GNOME Project, which develops and maintains one of the two open source graphic desktop environments most widely used on UNIX and Linux systems…
From Computational Complexity
CCC 2011 papers- you heard it here first
The complexity papers for CCC 2011 are posted HERE. (They might not be at the official CCC site yet; however, I have permission to post here.)
Kudos to Omer Reingold- the notifications were sent out on TUESDAY, three days Tuesday…From The Eponymous Pickle
New in Electronic Shelf Labels
The Venture Lab reports on funding work they are doing with an Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) startup called Tagnetics. I had worked with the predecessor of this firm in our innovation labs. I have also worked with the concept…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dan Ariely in Praise of the Handshake
Good piece by Dan Ariely formerly posted in the HBR. The implications of contracts versus handshakes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bias Against Creatives
Is there a bias against the quirkily creative, diversity in thinking, innovation because it does not fit into the enterprise narrative? I have seen it. More from Knowledge at Wharton.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skill Sets for Information Worker
In Information Management: An evolving set of skills for the information worker. In today
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hummingbirds
A fully operational, hummingbird-like operational aircraft.: " ... The hand-made prototype aircraft has a wingspan of 16 centimeters (6.5 inches) tip-to-tip and has a total flying weight of 19 grams (2/3 ounce), which is less…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Sponsors
As we’ve blogged in this space before, the CCC has sponsored a series of “research visions” sessions at computing research conferences over the past year — hoping to provide venues for sharing and discussing forward-looking,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Watson the the Human Brain
Short, but mostly non technical CW article on the Jeopardy-Watson IBM supercomputer, comparing at least its organizational and logical size to the human brain. Still not similar in it's micro structure, but we are starting…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-19
ForgeRock Shines on Sun's Legacy Identity – InternetNews.com Lovely overview of ForgeRock's first year in this interview with me from last week. (tags: ForgeRock Business Identity OpenSource OpenSSO OpenDS OpenAM OpenDJ OpenIDM…
From BLOG@CACM
The Wonderful World of Cooking Interfaces
This is an article describing some recent (and bizarre) interfaces to support cooking. The intersection of computer science and culinary art is not as small as you might think.
From Putting People First
Book: Make It So
Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction A book in progress by Nathan Shedroff & Chris Noessel Publisher: Rosenfeld Media Anticipated publication date: 2012 Science fiction has remained a pastime for designers…