Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2012
From The Eponymous Pickle
Argus Insights
Buzz impact landscapes for the new iPad Launch. First time I have looked at Argus Insights methodology to understand delight for new products. I like the visualizations that address the impact in a category of product, like…
From Computational Complexity
Intel Science Talent Search
Last week I went to the Intel Science Talent Search Awards Ceremony in DC, probably the most prestigious math and science competition for American high school students. I mentored one of the finalists, Adam Kalinich, of theappeared…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OMB, OSTP Seeking Input on Grants, Cooperative Agreements
Late last month, the
From Schneier on Security
Australian Security Theater
I like the quote at the end of this excerpt:
Aviation officials have questioned the need for such a strong permanent police presence at airports, suggesting they were there simply "to make the government look tough on terror"…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 March 2012
Have you gotten the free software tools to develop for Windows Phone 7.5 and Xbox LIVE Indie Games Please take a look at these great resources. By the way I have added a new list to this blog of Useful Download Resources you…
From Putting People First
Donald A. Norman and Roberto Verganti on incremental vs radical innovation
Donald A. Norman (of the Nielsen Norman Group) and Roberto Verganti (Politecnico di Milano) have jointly published a paper entitled “Incremental and Radical Innovation: Design Research versus Technology and Meaning Change“, based…
From Putting People First
User experience vision for startups
In a TechCrunch guest post by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple, outlines how he came to the conclusion that there
From Putting People First
Four new chapters on interaction-design.org
Four new chapters of the interaction-design.org resource are now available: Requirements Engineering from an HCI Perspective by Alistair G. Sutcliffe The chapter is structured in six sections. In the section 13.1, the Requirements…
From The Noisy Channel
Facing Prosopagnosia
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What has caught my attention lately:Videos showing Windows 8 is horribly painful for most people, looks likely to be another Windows Vista-like flop. Really worth watching the videos or trying it yourself (videos [1] [2], try…
From Writing
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Scala, Day 2
After a bumpy start with Scala on Day 1, I've moved onto the second day of Scala in Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.Scala, Day 2: ThoughtsThe second Scala chapter shifts gears to functional programming. Unfortunately, I was impatient…
From Wild WebMink
? Making Google+ Work
I sometimes see complaints by people that Google+ is not as exciting and/or useful as a social media service they are already using, like Twitter or Facebook. They both looked just as perplexingly dull when you started using…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What's the State of (CS Ed in) Your State?
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Illusory Superiority
A cognitive bias called the Dunning-Kruger effect. " ... In short, a person
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Does a Big Enterprise Deliver Data?
How does a big enterprise like Procter & Gamble securely deliver data in near real time to its decision makers? By using a system like Business Sphere, an internally developed method of data acquisition and delivery. HowMetaphor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interest Graphs
I love the idea of using graphs to understand connectivity. We experimented with it many times using enterprise data. Walter Riker sends along a link from GigaOM on using interest graphs to create a personalized Web. Based…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Integrated Analytics
While I was at P&G and Teradata was still part of NCR, we had NCR sales registers as part of our environment. I had the opportunity to work with some Teradata analytics systems, but have not been back there for quite some time…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Translations Retain Sound of Your Voice
From Microsoft Research:" ... Research software from Microsoft synthesizes speech in a foreign language, but in a voice that sounds like yours. ... Researchers at Microsoft have made software that can learn the sound of your…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science at the World Economic Forum
The following is a special contribution to the CCC Blog by Stephanie Forrest, professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico — and until recently, a member of the CCC Council. Stephanie attended the World Economic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pre-Thinking vs Scenario Planning
In Innovation Excellence: Forecasting is a long term interest. I have taught it and implemented it in corporate systems. There are many styles, from using numerical modeling, to means of generally mapping the broad possibilities…
From Writing
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: Scala, Day 1
It's time for a new chapter in the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks series: today, I take a crack at Scala.Scala, Day 1: ThoughtsAfter using Java for years, I was curious to try out Scala, which has often been described as theafter…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
From yesterday’s New York Times: What
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ChronoZoom
Microsoft Research announced a new project a couple of days ago called ChronoZoom - An Infinite Canvas in Time and you can get full information at that link but the intro paragraph below is a bit of an idea of what this is about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taming Data
There are lots of new ways to gather data, are we, or will be be overwhelmed? Some useful thoughts about how to think about gathering and using it.
From Putting People First
BOOMERANG, death by gadget: the mobile phone
BOOMERANG, death by gadget : the mobile phone
From Putting People First
The origin of futurism
Bruce Sterling, the celebrated science fiction writer and author of Tomorrow Now, explains why you don’t need to be clairvoyant to predict the future. The article is part of the Futurism series in Smithsonian Magazine. “The fifth…
From Putting People First
An update on the use of e-readers in Africa
What does it take to introduce e-books and e-readers into communities in low income countries — and is this a good idea, asks Michael Trucano on EduTech, a World Bank blog on ICT in education. “Judging by the increasing number…
From Putting People First
On the relationship between socio-economic factors and cell phone usage
The ubiquitous presence of cell phones in emerging economies has brought about a wide range of cell phone-based services for low-income groups. Often times, the success of such technologies highly depends on its adaptation to…
From Putting People First
Cognition and the intrinsic user experience
Over the past few years there’s been a lot of discussion around whether an experience can be designed. But it seems, writes Jordan Julien in UX Magazine, like everyone’s just getting hung up on semantics; an experience can be…
From Putting People First
Exploring mobile-only Internet use (South Africa)
Exploring mobile-only Internet use: results of a training study in urban South Africa Using an ethnographic action research approach, the study by Jonathan Donner (Microsoft Research India) and Shikoh Gitau and Gary Marsden (University…