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 Putting People First
Meet the 2020 Chinese consumer
By 2020, Chinese consumers will join the ranks of the world
From Putting People First
“Anthropology, Development and ICTs: Slums, Youth and the Mobile Internet in Urban India” is the title of a research paper by Nimmi Rangaswamy and Edward Cutrell of Microsoft Research India. Abstract In this paper we present…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Economics of Emoton
On the economics of emotion. " ... Doesn
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Shaped USB Drive
It looks great.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification in a Productive Role
More on gamification. Also known as serious play, a means to use the dynamics of games to get things done more quickly or efficiently, or to even get them done at all. We experimented with the idea within the enterprise a number…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Navy Announces
Earlier today at a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
From Schneier on Security
BitCoin Security Musings
Jon Callas talks about BitCoin's security model, and how susceptible it would be to a Goldfinger-style attack (destroy everyone else's BitCoins).
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ARPA-E
Earlier this month, the Advanced Projects Research Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) released a $150 million funding opportunity open to all breakthrough energy technologies. Individual awards under the Open FOA will range between $250,000…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Retailing
An interview about where cyberspace meets retail. The interaction is getting more common, and amount being sold online is challenging many assumptions.
From Wild WebMink
Why Cuban Hates Patents
Why does a successful entrepreneur like Mark Cuban hate software patents so much? Surely they are just the sort of business tool he would value? I explain why in my Friday column on InfoWorld today.
From Computational Complexity
Judea Pearl wins Turing Award
(In this age of lightenting fast communication I suspect you all already know that Judea Pearl won the Turing Award. Even so, it is worth posting about.)
Judea Pearl has won the 2011 Turing award (given in 2012). (see here…
From Schneier on Security
Non-Lethal Heat Ray
The U.S. military has a non-lethal heat ray. No details on what "non-lethal" means in this context.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pex4fun, an online lab for APCS
Are you teaching Advanced Placement Computer Science? Are you looking for supplemental exercises that may help you students with the concepts? If so this announcement may be of interest to you. Pex for Fun has been around for…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Literacy: Not Just for English Class Anymore
Do you remember the "writing across the curriculum" push? If you've been teaching for more than about eight years, I'm sure you do - in addition to everything else we have to do, teachers across all curriculum were going to teach…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Judea Pearl is the 2011 A.M. Turing Award Recipient
The Association for Computing Machinery has awarded the 2011 A.M. Turing Award, considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in Computing, to Judea Pearl, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Locately Shopper Intercept
Locately on DemandTec. I was recently pointed to this path-to-purchase approach that I had not heard of before, another example of an instrumented component, or sensor, that can be attached to shopper behavior. Leading to…
From Schneier on Security
Assorted Schneier News Stories
I have several stories in the news (and one podcast), mostly surrounding the talks I gave at the RSA Conference last month.
From ACM News
Judea Pearl Wins 2011 ACM Turing Award
Judea Pearl, professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the winner of the 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bricklin on the Tablet Revolution
Dan Bricklin, inventor of the Visicalc spreadsheet, provides some insight into the tablet revolution. There are some clear similarities and striking differences between the two revolutions. What is the same is the way corporate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Empowering IT
Tips on empowering IT from the Coca-Cola Company. Their " ... CIO wants to ensure that IT managers are viewed as 'business engineers' and 'true peers,' not pushovers ... " . Bravo
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
ACM Names Judea Pearl 2011 Turing Award Winner
Hot off the press
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers Shutting Facebook Stores
The curious example of retailers shutting their Facebook stores. " ... A Bloomberg report this weekend pointed out that Gap, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom and GameStop have all opened and closed shops on Facebook within the past year…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
REMINDER: NSF/CISE Running a CAREER Workshop
As we noted in this space last month, the
From Schneier on Security
More "Liars and Outliers" Links
First, five new reviews of the book.
Second, four new AV interviews about the book.
Third, I take the Page 99 Test.
From Putting People First
The consumerisation of IT
In November last year, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) published the short (free) report “The consumerization of IT- The next-generation CIO“. The
From Wild WebMink
FLOSS Weekly 204
Randal and I interviewed David Lutterkort
From The Eponymous Pickle
Encarta Killed Britannica
I well remember when Encarta became available on Windows. The simple encyclopedia was bought by Microsoft and we installed it for tests in some admin offices and fed the results back to MS. It was good, but not as complete…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Magazine
The March April Analytics Magazine. Lots of background and how-to information. Sports,marketing, public sector, supply chain and more.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Buckeye Top Fifty
Communication is an important part of every aspect of our lives, especially when choosing a career. Recently, Kelly Flowers, guidance counsellor at West Muskingum High School in Zanesville, OH, sent out an email communicating…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Battling for the Wal-Mart Shelf
4000 new products battle for the Wal-Mart Shelf. Interesting stats in CGT. Is this why online ultimately wins? Though you can see and feel and touch the items in the physical aisle, which you cannot do online. So is it the…