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 The Eponymous Pickle
MillionBrains
I am doing some re-exploration of crowd-sourced innovation ideas and I discovered this: Via IdeaConnection: " ... MillionBrains (MB) is a professional social innovation network that facilitates and enables both internal and open…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAE Announces Class of 2011
The National Academy of Engineering has announced the newly-elected Members of the Class of 2011.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-08
mflow music Give this UK-based online music site a try (assuming you can – the usual music industry geographic restriction nonsense applies). It lets you listen to whatever you want just like Spotify does, but without the subscriptions…
From Putting People First
Latest developments on Low2No
A team of international and Finnish designers, including Experientia, announced the current status and latest developments of the Low2No project today, at a sustainable urban development conference organised by Sitra, the Finnish…
From Schneier on Security
Micromorts
I'd never heard the term "micromort" before. It's a probability: a one-in-a-million probability of death. For example, one-micromort activities are "travelling 230 miles (370 km) by car (accident)," and "living 2 days in New…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft Innovative Educator Teacher Professional Development
The Microsoft Innovative Educator program at Microsoft is offering a number of two-day seminars for teacher trainers and technology integration specialists.
These seminars are designed for teacher trainers and those who have…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
China: the new Scientific Superpower?
From my experience, the quality and the quantity of the scientific research articles from China has been increasing dramatically in the last five years. To verify this impression, I crunched some numbers. In the general field…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin as the Login of Choice
In ReadwriteWeb: Short article and infographic about the rise of Linkedin as the Login of choice. Facebook, though also moving toward more of a B2B identity place, is still used by many as a family and friend place. Linkedin…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Get the Data
Nice idea. Questions and anwers about getting data you need in the form you need it in.Every day, more and more data is being published on the web; but trying to get the data you want, in the form you want it, can still beGetTheData…
From Putting People First
Experientia selected for second stage FredericiaC competition in Denmark
A consortium made up of Arup, EFFEKT, Experientia, and consultants from NCC Management Group, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KA), Conceptura, and Ars Electronica Linz GmbH (AEC),* has been announced as one of four finalists…
From Putting People First
Experientia pre-qualifies for FredericiaC competition in Denmark
A consortium made up of Arup, EFFEKT, Experientia, and consultants from NCC Management Group, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (KA), Conceptura, and Ars Electronica Linz GmbH (AEC),* has been announced as one of six finalists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cowans Sells Duveneck Girl Portrait
I have been doing work looking at the use of social networking in the auction world. This past weekend Cowan's Auctions sold Frank Duveneck's portrait of a girl for $42,300. More here on the auction. See Cowan's site for more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is the Cloud Ready Yet?
Hunter Richards asks for the opinion of accountants to see if they think that the cloud is ready yet. Join in the survey and get the results. With some interesting comments on the components involved.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Making the Case for Becoming a Computer Science Teacher
Mark Guzdial asks the question What
From Wild WebMink
? More Ratings Please
Given the interest in my earlier article about a scorecard for open source and my own rough-and-ready benchmark proposal, I’d be interested in seeing how well the benchmark works at rating a variety of open source projects. If…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CS and Science Fairs
"We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair and that success is not a function of fame or PR, but of hard work and discipline." …
From Computational Complexity
The Theory Postdoc Culture
FOCS Call for Papers posted. Deadline April 13. The CRA organized a committee that put together on a white paper on whether postdocs are healthy for Computer Science. They are looking from thoughts and comments from the CS community…
From Schneier on Security
Scareware: How Crime Pays
Scareware is fraudulent software that uses deceptive advertising to trick users into believing they're infected with some variety of malware, then convinces them to pay money to protect themselves. The infection isn't real, …
From Putting People First
Passive magic, design of delightful experience
Stefan Klocek, principal designer at Cooper, reflects on what it means to design for wonder and delight in the user experience: “Why is Google Maps on a mobile device so amazing and delightful? Why does Word Lens feel so mind…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 7
February 10
Hearing:
The Immigration Policy and Enforcement Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the E-Verify program, an electronic employment eligibility verification system. 10 a.m., 2141 …From Putting People First
Reflecting on usability and user-centred design
Two new articles have been published on the UX Matters site: Why don
From Putting People First
SEE conference looks at Europe
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken will be heading to his home country of Belgium in March 2011, to chair the SEE conference on integrating design into regional and national policies. The SEE project has been running since…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 February 2011
I spent the weekend in Miami for a meeting of a joint ACM and IEEE committee working on a new/updated set of curriculum recommendations for four-year college computer science programs. It was a great meeting with a lot of learning…
From Wild WebMink
Governance Benchmark Available
My article establishing an open-by-rule benchmark for checking the governance of open source communities is now available in the Essays section.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cyber War Rules of Engagement
In the BBC: On a proposal for a cyber war rules of engagement. This deserves thinking about much more than it has been. We now depend much on the Internet and need to be ready for the event of it being attacked. The no-nothing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytic Bridge on Facebook
The AnalyticBridge social network now has a presence on Facebook. It has been a useful space to be part of.
From BLOG@CACM
Design, Functionality, and Diffusion of Innovations
What's the relationship between functionality and design? What kinds of factors influence whether people do or don't adopt a technology?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pitch for Semantic Web in the Enterprise
A quick video pitch by Mark Montgomery of KYield for semantic technologies in the enterprise. Heard about semantic technologies but did not know why you should care? Here is a start.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics at the Stanford/MIT Venture Lab
This is an interesting upcoming session at the Stanford Venture lab on predictive analytics on February 15. The speaker participants seem to be an interesting group. It is unclear if this can be connected to remotely, but will…
From Wild WebMink
? FOSDEM Java
The Free Java DevRoom at FOSDEM was packed with people all day yesterday. At the beginning, Mark Reinhold (from Sun and now Oracle, the chief Java engineer) hoped to speak briefly about the new OpenJDK governance draft but faced…