The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following letter to the community describing Monday’s FY16 budget rollout…
In SiliconAngle: Notable to me is the speech to text capability. But the added analytics are also good directons. I am in the midst of working with startups to evaluate Watson services. So far these capabilities look very…
In Retailwire: " ... According to Boston Retail Partners' 2015 POS/Customer Engagement Benchmarking Survey, payment security ranked among the top three priorities by retailers for 2015 for the first time in 16 years. More than…
In the latest article based on the Snowden documents, the Intercept is reporting that the NSA and GCHQ are piggy-backing on the work of hackers: In some cases, the surveillance agencies are obtaining the content of emails by…
In February IEEE Computing Now:Achieving Dynamic Capabilities with Cloud ComputingHear how senior IT executives are maximizing their organizations’ dynamic adaptability through new and innovative uses of cloud computing. ...…
Werner Koch, who has been maintaining the GPG email encryption program since 1997, is going broke and considering quitting. Updates to the article say that, because of the article, he has received substantial contributions to…
In CIO Mag: Showing that despite all the bad press and ridicule it has its place in focused applications.
The following is a guest blog post by Sharoda Paul, former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) CI Fellow now Collaboration Researcher at GE Global Research. In 2011, GE embarked on a multibillion-dollar initiative called…
Professor Wayne Gray of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute gave an excellent talk today at the Cognitive Systems Institute Thursday talk series: Expert is not good enough! Asymptotes, Plateaus, and Limits to Everyday Human Performance…
If we explore the logic behind the Seattle coaching decision near the end of Superbowl XLIX with computational thinking, we'll see it was the correct decision.
Long piece, lots of interesting thoughts. I have been involved in many parts of these efforts, not all successful. Though the tech is fictionalized, it did happen and continues to evolve: In McKinsey:" ... Marketers are boosting…
Very interesting project. We examined a number of ways to make people more visually creative, including training groups to improve their ability to sketch. Many conversations with graphics recording artist David Sibbet onKen…
We did much work with electronic shelf labels (ESL). See the link below for much more. Quite natural to connect them to the beacon idea as part of retail infrastructure. Combines visual and data transmission.. In the RFID…
Entertainment Weekly proclaimed 2015 the year that artificial intelligence will rule the (movie) world with talk of the Terminator reboot, the new Avengers movie Age of Ultron, where Ultron is an attempt at a good AI robot turned…
What has caught my attention lately:
In the CACM: Work is going ahead on security concerns for the Internet of Things. This sounds simple, but I wonder that it won't be easy to unravel." ... The main problem involves finding a way to share necessary information…
In the News, concept cars designed for a driverless future. In a previous post I pointed to a simulation study that indicated that driverless cars could increase congestion. Contrary to expectations. Now Retailware startshow…
Strap. Brought to my attention. A local startup of interest. More to follow. " ... The only platform that goes everywear ... " ...." ... Strap is a software and analytics platform that unleashes the potential of wearables…
Being agile. " ... It is a misconception that in an agile organization all teams would use agile methods. There are many different methods, teams have to apply what works for them and adapt it to their situation. Organizations…
A topic that has come up a number of times in discussions about the construction of Big Data solutions. Is it a test bench system or a fundamental part of a company's infrastructure. Governance and risk need to be considered…
Interesting paper: "There's No Free Lunch, Even Using Bitcoin: Tracking the Popularity and Profits of Virtual Currency Scams," by Marie Vasek and Tyler Moore. Abstract: We present the first empirical analysis of Bitcoin-based…
In Datamag: Really some very classic issues about the limitations of long term forecasting in general. " ... From a statistical analysis standpoint, modeling natural disasters as black swan risk-mitigation scenarios is better…
Have brought up this method a number of times for minimizing costs. Now new methods include a novel visualization supporting search to find better, cheaper, procurement solutions. They describe it: " ... Vinimaya, Inc., a leader…
Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France A. Córdova outlined President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2016 budget request to Congress for NSF. The FY16 request calls for $7.7 billion for NSF, an increase of…
Looks like these opportunities are in New York, Detroit and San Francisco.
In McKinsey:"Leading thinkers on how to maintain economic growth and prosperity .... What is the single biggest opportunity we can act on now to sustain rising prosperity for the long term? ... "
Announcement of a webinar February 18, on BPM and Cognitive AI. By colleague Peter Fingar. As a practioner of both technologies, this interaction is a favorite topic of mine. More details here. " .... Webinar: The Next…
Have ordered an Amazon Echo. This is the Amazon always-on microphone/speaker. Which claims an AI voice recognition and task enablement system. It is Beta, but a friend who is using it now says it works fairly well. Similar…
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) is pleased to announce the release of a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Deployment Program, Phase 1: Concept Development. From the solicitation…
Scott Alexander wrote a series of great posts on genetic determinism. He recounts how he believes he learned English without any effort but could not learn Calculus. He explains that a 7-feet-tall healthy individual is almost…