Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2009
From CERIAS Blog
This time, the Senate
On March 19, I had an opportunity to testify before the Senate Committee on on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The hearing was entitled Cybersecurity – Assessing Our Vulnerabilities and Developing An Effective Defense.
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Inside the Mind of the Shopper
Herb Sorensen has a book coming out in May: Inside the Mind of the Shopper: The Science of Retailing, from Wharton School Publishing. I am now reading it in preprint. Very good so far, covers lots of the domain we worked with…
From Putting People First
Scratching the Surface
Jack Schofield of The Guardian has published a nice short story about the user experience of interacting with the Microsoft surface: “Microsoft was using a shallow pool as the “attract mode”, and the screen image looks and behaves…
From Putting People First
Seeing Tomorrow
Adaptive Path organised a panel on service design yesterday. Panellists were Shelley Evenson (CMU), Robert Glushko (UC Berkeley), and Christi Zuber (Kaiser Permanente). No matter where the economy heads, one thing is certain:…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Mystic Arts of Emergency Informatics
Rescue Robots at the Cologne Germany Building Collapse I finished The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston just before the City Archives collapsed in Cologne, Germany, on March 3. I soon found myself at…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThinkVine Named Cool Vendor
Thinkvine, a local advanced analytics vendor that I have met with a number of times:Gartner Names ThinkVine 1 of 4
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Research productivity: some paths less travelled
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From Putting People First
Sensing context in mobile design
Gabriel White, interaction design director at Punchcut in San Francisco, affirmed context as king in the design of mobile and location-aware computing at Australia’s 4 day Web Directions South conference in September last year…
From Putting People First
Tish Shute interviews Mike Kuniavsky on things as services
Tish Shute’s UgoTrade website is quickly becoming one of the prime sites in the field. In the last months she interviewed Andy Stanford-Clark (IBM Master Inventor), Robert Rice (CEO of Neogence), Usman Haque (architect and director…
From Putting People First
The future of shopping
The monthly business magazine Cond
From Putting People First
The Economist on the end of the
The Economist argues that the demise of a popular but unsustainable business model now seems inevitable: The idea that you can give things away online, and hope that advertising revenue will somehow materialise later on, undoubtedly…
From Putting People First
Phone designers to improve reality
Rik Myslewski of The Register reports on augmented reality on mobile devices: Future phones will recognize buildings and people by sight and replace reality with something better. They’ll also have roll-out HD displays. Or projectors…
From Putting People First
Good design at Metropolis
The March issue of Metropolis is focused on products with the theme of Good Design. Several articles are fitting quite well with the topic of this blog: What is good design? By Peter Hall The 20th-century definition of
From Putting People First
In a Q&A, user experience director Irene Au explains to Business Week how Google can manage design and consistency in its traditionally bottoms-up culture “As Google products proliferate beyond search, design decisions become…
From Putting People First
Social networking
Two-thirds of the world
From Putting People First
Mobile phones: the silver bullet to bridge the digital divide?
In a long post Roxanna Samii reports on her blog on the role of the mobile phone in developing countries, and more in particular on the Gash Barka region in Eritrea. Read full story
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Educating NITRD
As far as obscure government acronyms go, NITRD is a pretty good one. It stands for the National Information Technology Research and Development program. This program cuts across numerous federal agencies to carry out and coordinate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Reinventing Online Storytelling
Nice AdAge piece about the topic. I think that this can be taken further than just making data accessible, but also making it more valuable by making it interactive. Some Business Intelligence vendors are helping, but moreData…
From insideHPC
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Hello everyone. We’ve been busy as beavers here at insideHPC HQ, and we’ve got a lot of things coming for you in the next few months. A facelift, some new content features, and other tweaks that I hope will make you rely on insideHPC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and WPP Fund Neuromarketing Work
The post includes other links and brings up ethical concerns. They have been working on eyetracking for years. Have seen impressive presentations on that work. " ... Among the research efforts given funds are projects that…
From BLOG@CACM
The Importance of Programming in Introductory Computing Courses
Why not teach introductory courses without programming? Here are three good reasons to use programming to introduce computing.
From insideHPC
Fault tolerance workshop getting underway
Dan Katz at Louisiana State University sent me a note this morning letting us know that the TeraGrid’s 2009 Fault Tolerance Workshop, “Fault Tolerance for Extreme-Scale Computing” started this morning in Albuquerque. From the…
From insideHPC
Sun sells new systems in Australia, billed as southern hemisphere
insideHPC’s man down under sent us a note today letting us know that winner in the competition for new supers at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University has been announced. From Australian…
From insideHPC
Platform Computing Announces New Cluster Management
Platform Computing has announced the latest addition to its cluster management tool chain.
From insideHPC
University of Manitoba Announces HPC
The University of Manitoba has announced that they will build a new high performance computing facility.
From insideHPC
Rackable ready to run hot, innovates on power
Rackable has announced a new scale out computing solution that runs at temps up to 104 degrees F, and moves to per-cabinet (instead of per-server or per-blade) power supplies. The CloudRack 2
From The Eponymous Pickle
Outline of Predictably Irrational
An outline of Dan Ariely's book: Predictably Irrational, which I previously reviewed. Via the Noisy Channel. Nicely done.
From insideHPC
SC09 announces suite of focus
This week SC09 announced (warning, PDF) the focus areas for its technical program. This year the conference is placing special emphasis on biocomputing, sustainability, and the 3D internet
From insideHPC
Cray launches new XT5m midrange
At a workshop today co-hosted by Cray and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) in Stuttgart, Cray announced a new midrange line of supercomputers based on its flagship petascale machine “The new Cray XT5m product…
From CSDiary
What Makes a Top-10 CS Department?
I’ve just returned from a visit to KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in Daejeon, South Korea. As far as “big government bets” go, KAIST has been an unabashed success. KAIST alumni dominate the upper…