Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2010
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Sexing Squid
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computing and the Common Core
K-12 computer science education might get a boost from a recently released document called the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). This initiative is historic for the United States. For the first time forty-eightin…
From Schneier on Security
Schneier Blogging Template
Eerily accurate:
Catchy one-liner ("interesting," with link): In this part of the blog post, Bruce quotes something from the article he links to in the catchy phrase. It might be the abstract to an academic article, or the…From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computing and the Common Core
K-12 computer science education might get a boost from a recently released document called the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). This initiative is historic for the United States. For the first time forty-eight…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Write Good Papers: My Slides
I agreed to give a talk to graduate students on how to write good research papers. I have posted the slides of my talk online. They are mostly taken out of my web page on this topic. What annoys you about research papers? How…
From Schneier on Security
Hard Drives in Photocopy Machines
Modern photocopy machines contain hard drives that often have scans of old documents.
This matters when an office disposes of an old copier. It also matters if you make your copies at a commercial copy center like Kinko's.
…From Computational Complexity
Turning down a Fields Medal is eccentric, turning down the Millennium Prize is INSANE!
NEWS on Poincare Conjecture:
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Carleton Celebration of Women in Science and Engineering
Ever since I attended my first Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2008, I've dreamt of having a celebration of our own. Today I released a schedule of talks and started working on media announcements for the realization…
From Schneier on Security
Side-Channel Attacks on Encrypted Web Traffic
Nice paper: "Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications: a Reality Today, a Challenge Tomorrow," by Shuo Chen, Rui Wang, XiaoFeng Wang, and Kehuan Zhang.
Abstract. With software-as-a-service becoming mainstream, more and more applications…From Wild WebMink
? Monkey Business
Microsoft and FOSS, Behind the scenes ACTA, Android & less-than-free, new music and new copyright.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Tablets
Considering adaptive text: '... What if the words you're reading were watching you? Some fear for the demise of reading real books and magazines, but some tech could breathe new life into the written word and the act of reading…
From BLOG@CACM
Computing and the Common Core
Computer science education gets a boost from an historic document released by governors and education leaders in the United States and you can show your support for this effort.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Where does Computer Science Belong?
To some extent Computer Science is the red headed step child of K-12 education. It just doesn
From The Eponymous Pickle
Micro Industries Retail Signage Blog
Micro Industries, who contributed advanced digital signage to our innovation centers, has just added a blog to their site. A number of posts have been made, including the latest, a report by John Curran from the recent Digital…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Things Tweet
Twitter is starting to animate things in the evolving 'Internet of Things'. Seems like a very trivial way to talk about interaction of people and things. Some interesting examples given. Simple starts.-
From Schneier on Security
I'll be in Second Life Tonight
James Fallows and I are being interviewed in Second Life tonight, 9:00 PM Eastern Time.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheap e-Book Reading Devices
It's not unexpected, relatively inexpensive uni purpose e-book reading devices emerging. Not unlike the very inexpensive calculators that also emerged in the 1980s. Shall we expect throwaway digital readers soon?
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Do Contests Promote Computer Science?
I am just coming off the spring local programming contest circuit, as many of the nearby universities held their contest during their spring break. Unfortunately, that meant that two of these contests also fell during our spring…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP proposes initiative for student-led innovations in broadband apps
The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy seeks comments on a proposed initiative for student-led innovations in broadband applications. In doing so, OSTP leads with CCC’s “Landmark Contributions by Students in Computer…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Curriculum, Companies, Cooperation and Conflict
Where does curriculum come from? Where should it come from? What involvement should industry in general have in creating curriculum? These are all questions suggested by some comments Garth left on my blog post last week on New…
From Schneier on Security
How to Become a Nuclear Power
Sarcastic, yet a bit too close to the truth.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy in the Era of DIgital Glass Houses
In CACM: ' ... As the boundaries for privacy have been redrawn by the connected world, the social norms and legal support structure that we count on to preserve privacy have shown more and bigger gaps. These awkward openings…
From Wild WebMink
? OSI Opposes BBC DRM
OSI joins the Open Rights Group in opposing the introduction of DRM to UK broadcast TV.
From Schneier on Security
Natural Language Shellcode
Nice:
In this paper we revisit the assumption that shellcode need be fundamentally different in structure than non-executable data. Specifically, we elucidate how one can use natural language generation techniques to produce…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at Metcalfe's Law
A look at long quoted Metcale'e law, about how value grows as networks grow. It has been the 'rule' of Web 2.0, in GigaOm:' ... Networks
From Wild WebMink
? Broken Democracy
Italian democracy, citizen surveillance, DRM from the BBC and even the BCS rejecting a petition. May I get depressed?
From Putting People First
Africa Calling: can mobile phones make a miracle?
Africa Calling: Can Mobile Phones Make a Miracle? is the title of a long article by Jenny C. Aker (Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School) and Isaac M. Mbiti (Assistant Professor, SMU), published in the March/April 2010 edition…
From Putting People First
Book: Ubiquitous computing user experience design
At Lift France 09, Mike Kuniavsky spoke about Changing Things: Fab Labs, towards decentralized design and production of material products (link to 25 min. video). Kuniavsky’s new book on ubiquitous computing user experience…
From Putting People First
Successful service design
Successful Service Design: Turning Innovation Into Practice is a website created by the UK’s Cabinet Office that provides a robust guide to service design. The site, that also contains an extensive library, offers “a stage by…
From Computational Complexity
Laci Babai Turns 60
I'm at Ohio State for the Combinatorics, Groups, Algorithms, and Complexity Conference in honor of Laci Babai's 60th birthday. An incredible turn out with 74 talks. I've never seen a birthday conference with parallel sessions…