Communications of the ACM
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March 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2013 CSTA National Survey on High School Computer Science
The Computer Science Teachers Association is conducting their annual computer science survey right now. CSTA members should have received notice in our email. I hope that all computer science educators will participate however…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Coherent Emergent Stories
My thesis project is moving forward, which I'm thrilled about. Here's a high-level abstract that summarizes the system I am working on.Crafting satisfying narratives while preserving player freedom of action is a longstanding…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Hearings on Litigation Abuses
Two Congressional hearings relevant to patent reforms, which were canceled last week due to “snowquester,” are scheduled for this week. House Hearing on “Examination of Litigation Abuses” Wednesday March 13, 2013, 10 am ET Subcommittee…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blogs Outrank Other Social Media in Influence
This is good to hear. While the number of blogs seems to be decreasing in favor of easier to do media like Twitter, they still influence customers.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Ecosystems
In Mediapost. Good thoughts, rephrasing: All innovation exists within a context, makes sure you and your customers understand it. " ... Certain innovations, such as Instagram or Apple's App Store, open the door for other entrepreneurs…
From Schneier on Security
Dead Drop from the 1870s
Hats:
De Blowitz was staying at the Kaiserhof. Each day his confederate went there for lunch and dinner. The two never acknowledged one another, but they hung their hats on neighboring pegs. At the end of the meal the confederate…From Putting People First
Re-designing (or redefining) UXD
Putting People First rarely plugs conferences (before they happen) but this one seems intriguing: RE:DESIGN/UX Design will take place in Silicon Valley on April 29–30, 2013. The events are capped at 125 attendees and the focus…
From My Biased Coin
Mike Smith Explains, Apologizes
Given the hubbub that arose this weekend over the issue of Harvard examining the e-mail of some of the Resident Deans, it's gratifying (if unsurprising) that this morning Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Mike Smith has…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Current Daylight saving time policies are insane
Daylight saving time (DST) is this insane practice whereas twice a year, clocks are moved forward or backward by an hour. It is still widespread throughout North America and Europe. As a kid, I was told that this was meant to…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 11
March 13 Hearing: The House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s role in cybersecurity of critical infrastructure. 10 a.m., 311 Cannon Building (rescheduled from March 6) The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unified Workspace
Cisco presents the Unified Workspace. General but useful thoughts. " ... Trends such as mobility, virtualization, video, collaboration, knowledge management, and cloud have come to the forefront as companies struggle with how…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Release of Geodata
The Geodata from Wikimedia is being released. Thought this had been done before, very useful for mobile. " ... The WikiMedia Foundation has added a new extension to MediaWiki, the foundation for Wikipedia, that adds geographic…
From Schneier on Security
Is Software Security a Waste of Money?
I worry that comments about the value of software security made at the RSA Conference last week will be taken out of context. John Viega did not say that software security wasn't important. He said:
For large software companies…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 March 2013
It’s Women’s History Month and last week was International Women’s Day. Not surprisingly that there was a lot of talk about women in computer science in particular and women in STEM fields in general last week. In fact let’sI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New P&G Open Innovation Website
In its second decade of running their Connect & Develop approach, P&G has updated their approach and website. See it here. I have worked using it to connect to specific innovators. " ... “As P&G enters its Second Decade of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blog Tags are Here
Starting now you can utilize blog tags here, also called labels. They are found at the bottom of each post. These tags classify the blog post with others that are of related topics. You can click on these at the bottom ofLabel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Pattern with Math
Recognizing PatternsWith today’s powerful data analysis systems, users gather a ton of information—a breakdown of Wal-Mart Stores’ (WMT) sales in the U.S. or things people “like” on Facebook (FB)—in one place and then run queries…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experience in the Data
Apply Your Experience.Saffron Technology wants to put your data to work under a completely new approach to data analytics: Experience Management. The way we see it, countless worlds of Experience are hidden in your data. And…
From My Biased Coin
Harvard Spies on E-mails
A strange offshoot of the Harvard cheating scandal -- a report in the Boston Globe that Harvard administrators decided it was OK to search through Resident Dean e-mails when some information marked confidential had appeared to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improved Check-in
Foursquare checkins become easier, which eases the whole problem of getting loyalty credit, and also makes the implementation of location based games more powerful. This all ends up creating better commercial opportunity,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Personal Brand Will be Googled
Good thoughts in Mashable. It is revealing that some of hints here also use Google to improve your personal brand, regardless you are a regular user of their services. They have it coming and going.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future Preview
Pointer to the advertising future via a video by James C Nelson. from 1967. I remember thinking about adaptive media not long after that, but it seemed the challenges were very great. In IT even the concept of'Notebook'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT Driving Employee Passion
Good IT is a magical thing that can drive employees to do new things. My reaction to the title here. Why else does everyone have a smartphone and/or a tablet, and refers to it constantly?. You could not have imagined old technology…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update Is Back!
After a long hiatus, the ACM Washington Update – a newsletter of computing policy activity published by the ACM Public Policy Office – is back. Yesterday we published a new issue, the second one in this new format. ACM Washington…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Data Brokers Know About You
In Pro Publica A good overview of how personal data is currently being brokered. First time that I had seen this much information about the topic in one place. And addressing the implication for privacy. " .... Data
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Coke Neuromarketing
Roger Dooley provides a number of examples of Coke neuromarketing. I had been sensing that there was a decrease in the use of these technologies to understand market engagement, but this article says otherwise. In part that…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s not lazy – its efficient
Years ago I worked for a company that sold computers, software, terminals and many other things. A terminal salesperson worked out of the same office I did and as a result we of then got the latest and greatest terminals to use…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid/Whale Yin-Yang
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Ross Anderson's <i>Security Engineering</i> Online
The second edition of Ross Anderson's fantastic book, Security Engineering, is now free online. Required reading for any security engineer.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Damsels in Distress
After all the terrible controversy and the failed attempts of sabotaging her Kickstarter campaign, Anita Sarkeesian's first episode of her video series on Tropes VS Women in Video Games is finally online. It's the first instalment…