Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2012
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Children
Late last month, Children’s Hospital Boston announced the launch of the CLARITY Challenge
From Putting People First
Interaction 12: Keynote by Anthony Dunne
Ciara Taylor was also at Interaction 12 in Dublin and reports on the keynote talk by Anthony Dunne for Core77. “Interaction design and designing interactions… are they the same concept? Anthony Dunne, partner at Dunne and Raby…
From Putting People First
Interaction 12: Day Three
There was magic in the air on the final day of the Interactions 12 conference in Dublin, as a number of speakers drew the connections between magic and design, whether it be electric faeries, having childhood dreams of being…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 6 February 2012
I’m headed to Austin TX today for the Texas Computer Educators Association (TCEA) conference. Hoping to see some old friends and meet some new friends. If you are at TCEA I hope you will stop by the Microsoft booth and find…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Model of Human Health Behavior Change
We worked with Stanford Professor BJ Fogg several times in the enterprise. I am very late to discover this, but he has created a new model of human behavior change. " ... In 2011, the World Economic Forum selected the Fogg…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Gaming for Engagment
In the NYT: Good general piece on gaming for brand engagement. Mentioning the example of Samsung in some detail. " ... Samsung is embracing a business trend called gamification, which takes elements from games and applies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM's Watson Changing Careers
More indications that artificial intelligence, much promoted in the late 80s, is back again. Based on the same kinds of rule-based, certainty quantification methods we used then to prototype AI in the enterprise. An now…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Taps a Join the Dots Panel
Had not heard of this before, but from Research Live: Unilever is recruiting a new panel of shoppers to help 'shape the future' of its family of brands.
From Wild WebMink
? Help OSI Transform
As I explained at FOSDEM (blog post coming!), the Open Source Initiative is switching to a member-led governance. For that, it will need members. The OSI Board would be very grateful if you would complete the totally anonymous…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Home Robotics and the Mint Claner
I was involved with several projects in the enterprise that dealt about how cleaning products could be used in conjunction with home robotics. We got some early experience with in-office robotics that moved mail around. IniRobot…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Microsoft Research Unveils
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Eric Horvitz, Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research and member of the CCC Council, and Peter Lee, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Redmond. On the occasion…
From Putting People First
Information overload is not unique to Digital Age
It is a constant complaint: We’re choking on information. The flood of data on the Web has reached mind boggling proportions, and it shows no signs of stopping. But wait, says Harvard professor Ann Blair in an NPR radio program…
From Putting People First
The human factor in service design
McKinsey’s John DeVine, Shyam Lal, and Michael Zea write that businesses ought to focus on the human side of customer service to make it psychologically savvy, economically sound, and easier to scale. “Some organizations are…
From Putting People First
Interactions 12: Day Two
Vicky Teinaki and Louise Taylor continue their coverage of the Interactions conference in Dublin. In this long article, they report on the presentations by Jonas L
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Just Working Isn
I wrote a tic tac toe game for my Windows Phone today. It works just fine. I’m just not happy with it. I loaded a screen shot of it to the left. Oh it is obvious that the graphics are not so hot. Graphic design and UI design…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Problem with Students Who Won't Problem Solve
This semester I am teaching two sections of Web Page Design. This is the third year that I have taught the class at the high school level, but I still struggle with some of the same issues.
The two sections of the class are …From The Noisy Channel
Social Wisdom in Seattle
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Analytic Resources
Good post on the topic. I find many groups are uncertain about how to manage the process of working with analytics. And they are also unclear about how to deal with the results discovered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Size and Complexity of Data
In the Atlantic: In an edited excerpt from his new book, Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains how the massive amounts of data necessary to deal with complex phenomena exceed any single brain's ability to grasp, yet networked…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Report Emphasizes Importance of Health IT
The Bipartisan Policy Center released a report last Friday — Transforming Health Care: The Role of Health IT – emphasizing the critically important role that health information technology plays “in supporting new models of care…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Clothing that Keeps an Exercise Journal
It's called Squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
The Problems of Too Much Information Sharing
Funny. Fake, but funny.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practicing for the Super Bowl Ads
Sands Research sends along an item and commentary pointing to an article in the WSJ on how Super Bowl ad companies use neuromarketing methods to test modifications of ads to see which work best. A good example of how neuro…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Performance Management from SAP
Good post by Laura Mikovsky on Enterprise Performance management from SAP. A classic need for the enterprise. A typical dashboard BI application. How are various parts of my enterprise performing, and how do I normalizeMy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Lion Shares Demand Data
In a move to consumer driven demand, Food Lion shares data: " ... Food Lion is working on changing the way CPG vendors such as PepsiCo replenish its distribution centers and stores by offering them visibility into current…
From Schneier on Security
VeriSign Hacked, Successfully and Repeatedly, in 2010
Reuters discovered the information:
The VeriSign attacks were revealed in a quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing in October that followed new guidelines on reporting security breaches to investors. It was…From Putting People First
Interactions 12: Day One
Dublin
From Putting People First
Ethnography of mobile phone use in remote Mexican village
Tricia Wang of UCSD’s Department of Sociology and Barry Brown of the Mobile Life VINN Excellence Center Stockholm presented the paper “Ethnography of the telephone: Changing uses of communication technology in village life” at…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP Studying Benefits of Video Games
USA TODAY is out this week with an interesting article