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
CISE AD Issues Letter to Community on FY 13 Budget Rollout
NSF/CISE Assistant Director
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Brands Grow
I had the need to look at How Brands Grow, by Byron Sharp again. A really great book that inspires me to look at the numbers behind brand growth again. It is rare that I consult a book of this kind more than once. This one…
From Schneier on Security
SSL Traffic Analysis on Google Maps
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Magic Numbers Are Bad
I had my friend Clint Rutkas review some code of mine. Now I have been writing code longer than Clint has been alive but he
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Enhanced Innovation
IBM on how the cloud can drive new, innovative business models. A largely non technical post with some useful thoughts.
From Schneier on Security
Trust Requires Transparency
Adam Shostack explains to Verisign that trust requires transparency.
This is a lesson Path should have learned.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF
The deadline for preliminary proposals to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) next Expeditions in Computing
From Michael Nielsen
How you can help the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) become law
As many of you no doubt know, the Federal
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science e-Book from AnalyticsBridge
A first draft of a data science e-Book available for free from the AnalyticBridge social network for analytics professionals. . From business analytics professionals. Join and review it. Some interesting topics are included…
From My Biased Coin
A Systems Complaint
I think of myself as a person who works both in systems and theory. And I've found that's often a challenging position. I've been vocal before that I think theory conferences, to their detriment, downplay experimental workWhile…
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPads in the Bedroom
A recent survey shows that most tablets are used at home rather than on the road. And in the bedroom, where this post says tablets have become a fixture. (68% of 880+ respondents use them there often) Mostly because they are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Twitter Serious?
David Carr on the implied seriousness of Tweets. He makes some interesting points about the difficulty of considering a communications channel very informal, but then paying the price when it upsets someone. I remember a similar…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SuperBetter Labs
Some game designers have put together a system that lets you join an all star team. SuperBetter is an online, social game designed to help you build up personal resilience.Document your SuperBetter journey for our blog. Get personal…
From Wild WebMink
? Eric Whitacre
Back in December I mentioned that Eric Whitacre’s wonderful choral album “Light and Gold” [Amazon UK | Amazon US] had been nominated for a Grammy award. Well … he won! If you’ve not heard his choral music, I suggest you take…
From Schneier on Security
<i>Liars and Outliers</i> Update
Liars and Outliers is available. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have ben shipping the book since the beginning of the month. Both the Kindle and the Nook versions are available for download. I have received 250 books myself. Everyone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Redefine the employee
With changes in how people communicate, in both social and technical terms, we need to think of new ways to vaul e people. More thoughts in Chief Learning Officer.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Better Shopper Marketing Strategies
In Mediapost: Takes a look at a Booz & Company Study: " ... The big challenge, concluded Booz, is for manufacturers to
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The President
Later this morning, President Obama will unveil his budget request for FY 2013. A number of budget briefings by Federal funding agencies are scheduled throughout the day, including one at 3:30pm EST at the National Science Foundation…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 13
February 16 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act of 2012. 2:30 p.m., 342 Dirksen Building February 17 Hearing: The House Science…
From Computational Complexity
Barney the Evil Dinosaur
This is an old story from before I had a blog, but one of my favorite on when technology goes bad. In the late 90's, the undergraduate CS coordinator at the time, Don Crabb, also wrote a column on technology for the Chicago…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
This Thursday, a Symposium on the Impact of NITRD
Since the dawn of the digital age, fundamental research sponsored by the Federal
From Schneier on Security
What Happens When the Court Demands You Decrypt a Document and You Forget the Key?
Last month, a U.S. court demanded that a defendent surrender the encryption key to a laptop so the police could examine it. Now it seems that she's forgotten the key.
What happens now? It seems as if this excuse would always…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 February 2012
Home again after a week in Texas! Had a great time in Texas both at the TCEA conference and the steering committee meeting for the CS 2013 project. All in all I talked to a lot of people, learned a lot and still managed to get…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Message Mapping
Over the years I have been investigating all sorts of mapping methods. Concept, process and Mind maps are common approaches that I have used in my work for years. now I see there are also message maps, here described by Ed. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Big Data Thoughts
In the NYT Sunday Review: On the impact of big data. Personally I think it is how business analytical methods can be effectivey used against the right amount and form of data that is readily available to solve a problem. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Teaching with Technology
In the Chronicle of Education: A teacher rethinks teaching with technology. Like the solution to any difficult problem, it is never all just about technology.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adaptive Marketing
Adaptive Marketing was a new term to be. Apparently devised by Mindshare to describe consumer focused and data based marketing. It is good to be as adaptive as possible, because your world of context is constantly changing.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A great piece
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE Announces
As part of the
From The Noisy Channel
Enjoying Seattle
My excursion to Seattle was delightful, and I thought I’d share some details with readers. I spent most of Friday at the University of Washington, meeting with graduating PhD students. I’ve always known that UW is a top school…