Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2013
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Value Stories
Some stories about the value of data in GigaOM.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Informs Analytics
Upcoming Informs Analytics meeting in San Antonio in early April. I have attended many, hosted a few, written speeches for them, presented at many, even received an few awards there. A good conference, like many of them are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Planning
Something we did for thirty plus years. Under all sorts of regimes and priorities. Among what the article suggests, to be ready for chaos. Be agile. Be ready embrace new ideas and technologies without getting buried in their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking Product Form for 3D Printing
An interesting view. I am still skeptical about the general use of 3D printing for manufacturing. But there are some broadening thoughts here. The designs have to be considered, of course." ... 3D printing has already changed…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: WTF, Evolution?
WTF, Evolution? is a great blog, and they finally mentioned squid.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
K-8 Take Aways from SIGCSE
I just returned from my first SIGCSE conference inspired and renewed. After listening to Dr. Margolis' closing keynote session, where she confirmed that computer science education is truly for all students and that early exposure…
From Wild WebMink
Google, VP8 and Codec Standards
The politics around codecs are complex and the incumbents are prone to deceptive feints, like in 2010 when MPEG-LA claimed that H.264 was available “free” for web uses (but content owners probably still paid multiple fees in…
From Schneier on Security
xkcd on PGP
How security interacts with users.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
This Year's Grace Hopper Submissions
Tonight is the deadline for the 2013 edition of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing's Call for Participation. Although I wasn't sure I was going to submit anything this year, I ended up submitting twice! HereGram…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Robotics Roadmap Presentation to Congress March 20
On Wednesday, March 20, a new Robotics roadmap will be presented to the Congressional Caucus on Robotics. The presentation program will include: • Overview – Henrik Christensen • Manufacturing – Rethink Robotics – Rodney Brooks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter and Verix Partnership
More on the Procter - Verix partnership , from CEO magazine. Delivering easier to apply Business Intelligence: " ... After a year of intensive teamwork between Verix and P&G, we have developed in-depth CPG domain expertise…
From Computational Complexity
Goodbye Old Friends
We had two terrible losses this week. Not people but websites, Intrade and Google Reader.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing the Internet
Flowing data describes an App that provides a 3D representation of the infrastructure of the Internet. No specific value, except the knowledge that we are riding on top of something very complex.
From Schneier on Security
Stuxnet is Much Older than We Thought
Symantec has found evidence of Stuxnet variants from way back in 2005. That's much older than the 2009 creation date we originally thought it had. More here and here.
What's impressive is how advanced the cyberattack capabilities…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
TouchDevelop–This is Cool!
I finally decided to get serious about learning TouchDevelop this week. I have sort of toyed with it from time to time and I’ve seen the development team do demos several times. But I never really focused my attention on learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standards in the CPG and Retail Industry
An interesting report via GS1 from CapGemini on the future of standards there. These are key issues to make these spaces more efficient. " ... Capgemini has released a report entitled "The Future of Standards in the Consumer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Reader Gone
Google reader RSS is scheduled to be gone in 70 days. I have used it since it first arrived. It is a simple way to do information feeds. Very popular from what I can see. From the complaints I see the speculation is thatThere…
From Writing
What my grandfather taught me about happiness
| Boris K.1919-2013 |
From The Eponymous Pickle
Glass as Newton as Vision
A colleague sends along this view in Quartz, of Google Glass as something akin to the Apple Newton, visionary in direction, but something that will pave the way for future applications and players in this space. I repeat too…
From Schneier on Security
On Secrecy
Interesting law paper: "The Implausibility of Secrecy," by Mark Fenster.
Abstract: Government secrecy frequently fails. Despite the executive branch’s obsessive hoarding of certain kinds of documents and its constitutional…From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheap Gene Machines
Simpler, cheaper gene analysis could revolutionize medicine. In IEEE Spectrum. " ... Soon, Rothberg says, everybody will be sequenced—probably as infants—and will be able to make diet, lifestyle, and medical choices based
…From Putting People First
Book: Present Shock – When Everything Happens Now
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff Current Hardcover March 2013, 216 pages [Amazon] Abstract This is the moment we’ve been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but we…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever's Dove is Mobile
In Mobile Marketer, how Unilever is using mobile and video to promote their Dove brand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Promotions and Impulse Buys
In Progressive Grocer: Perhaps a non intuitive linkage? " ... Research published by the American Marketing Association shows that shoppers make more unplanned purchases when prompted by promotions through a mobile device. "Retailers…
From Putting People First
UK Government Service Design Manual
The UK Government Service Design Manual provides a (draft) digital by default service standard, as well as guidance and tools for building world-class digital services. The Government Digital Strategy set an ambitious target…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Real Life Is …
One of my favorite sayings is that “real life is an open book test.” I don’t remember where or when I first heard it but it is something I repeat rather regularly. I was thinking about this and other things that the real world…
From Schneier on Security
Nationalism on the Internet
For technology that was supposed to ignore borders, bring the world closer together, and sidestep the influence of national governments the Internet is fostering an awful lot of nationalism right now. We've started to see increased…
From BLOG@CACM
What Does 'Big Data' Mean (Part 4)?
The "big variety" use case is examined, in this fourth post in a series on big data.
From My Biased Coin
But I Haven't Thought of You Lately At All....
I realize the times they-are-a-changing, and so maybe I shouldn't find this unusual, but...Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas put up a Kickstarter campaign to raise 2 million to make a Veronica Mars movie.* They gave the project 30…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Again: D-Wave
Now a number of years ago I met with some former colleagues to pose appropriately difficult problems for their recently constructed quantum computer D-Wave. The relationship of quantum computing to computationally complexNew…