Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2014
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Looks at Google Glass for Expertise
CACM looks at Google Glass. Another view, positive and negative. Still looking at what I would call 'office' applications that link to embedded intelligence and quant analytics. Leading for rapid integration to corporate…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Teacher Leader Testifies in Illinois
CSTA is now advocating for improvements to computer science education in many states and members of the CSTA Computer Science Advocacy and Leadership Team (CSALT) such as Steve Svetlik of Illinois have been instrumental in …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are You Coming to the 2014 CSTA Conference?
As you may have already heard (especially if you are a regular reader of this blog), the Computer Science Teachers Association is in full swing for our 2014 annual conference. We are very proud of our lineup this year as we have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Networking Your Toothbrush as Over-Design App Included
A step towards an Internet of Everything? Or should everything be just as intelligent as it needs to be? My former enterprise develops a smarter toothbrush. " .... Procter & Gamble’s Oral-B announced the release of its first…
From Schneier on Security
Liveblogging the Financial Cryptography Conference
Ross Anderson liveblogged Financial Cryptography 2014. Interesting stuff....
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Launches Job Board
In the last year CSTA has received an increasing number of requests from schools and organizations looking to find computer science teachers to fill new jobs. At the same time, we've also been receiving requests from teachers…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Planning for Go Code Girl 2014: Python and Pis
Last year's Go Code Girl was a great success. This year, we wanted to build on that as well as try something a bit different. Keeping the same overall format, we're hosting two days of coding fun: the first at University of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
FTC on In-Store Tracking and Data Security
In Retailwire: Key to follow for those that want to gather additional big retail data. " ... Advertising Age recently reported on five expected areas of focus for the Federal Trade Commission this year. All five revolve around…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Presidential Innovation Fellowship for USPTO Patent Quality Initiative
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program invites applications from individuals interested in helping the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) improve patent quality through better prior art identification and evaluation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Light, Efficient Lighting and Sensors
Using light as a means of network construction has existed for some time. It has interesting advantages and constraints. We tested it for very specialized retail conditions. From Radar OReilly: A good overview of players…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Software Partnership Roundtable on Crowdsourcing Prior Art for Software Patents on April 10, 2014
The USPTO will hold a Software Partnership Roundtable on April 10 to discuss crowdsourcing and third-party preissuance submissions to identify prior art for software patents. The roundtable and its webcast will be open to the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Turing’s Theory of Morphogenesis Validated
A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Brandeis University have provided the first experimental evidence that validates Alan Turing’s theory of morphogenesis, more than 60 years after his death. Turing is well…
From Apophenia
Why Snapchat is Valuable: It’s All About Attention
Most people who encounter a link to this post will never read beyond this paragraph. Heck, most people who encountered a link to this post didn’t click on the link to begin with. They simply saw the headline, took note that someone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Data Flow
Agree with the points made here, the topic of lifecycle management is rarely considered seriously. It also goes beyond lifecycle, to better understand the context of the data and decisions that are influenced by that dataWhat…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Changing The View Of Code
The other day I was working on a code project and ran into a frustrating bug. I looked at it for at least an hour and got nowhere with it. I used breakpoints, debugging code, and scanned though the listing again and again. No…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saffron Technology Advances in Associative Memories
New developments from Saffron Technology, often mentioned here, implementer of innovative machine learning techniques. See more about their Natural Intelligence Platform. And current Press release: Previously about Saffron.…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Power Of ACC
Euler’s back-door pass to Gauss sinks a bucket ACC stands for the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is an athletic organization that contains Georgia Tech and fourteen other colleges. In basketball, the top several teams in the…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Power Of ACC
Euler’s back-door pass to Gauss sinks a bucket ACC stands for the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is an athletic organization that contains Georgia Tech and fourteen other colleges. In basketball, the top several teams in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Battlefield: Project Morpheus
I was struck by use of the term virtual battlefield. See Bloomberg article. This was precisely what we did now many years ago. With punch cards and mainframes, and also excellent-for-the-time, game style visualizations. We…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving Data Reveals Routes
How driving data can reveal routes. This has been long known, and has been used in a number of contexts. A good example of analytical method based on sensor data. A Podcast. In the Sciam: " ... Insurance companies have for…
From Computational Complexity
Spring Breaking at Dagstuhl
From The Eponymous Pickle
From Mess to Model Training
On April 17-18, the Center for Business Analytics in the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati will be offering a training course called “From Mess to Model.” This course serves as an introduction to the…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming for the fun of it
Several years ago I was visiting a college and the professor I was meeting with told me he assigned a slot machine project to his students. That struck me a a very fun thing to do. At the time I didn’t have the time or the motivation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever and Mobile Marketing
Unilever Deploys Mobile Marketing PlatformUnilever has become the first company to activate Brandtone’s automated mobile marketing platform and engage directly with mobile phone users in the world’s fastest growing markets.The…
From My Biased Coin
Hashing Summer School in Copenhagen
Of the many, many interesting things happening in Copenhagen this summer (SEA, ICALP) we'd like to add one more: a Hashing Summer School at the University of Copenhagen. Here's the web site. This was the brainchild of Mikkel…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Rep. Elizabeth Esty Gets CS Amendment Passed
Rep. Elizabeth Esty (CT-5) has successfully offered an important amendment to H.R. 4186 to expand a STEM teacher professional development grant under the National Science Foundation to include computer science teachers.
Esty's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson as a Cognitive Technology
Was told that IBM has just refreshed their Watson site. Now positioning it as a cognitive technology. No longer called AI or Expert Systems, which was the common parlance in our day. The positioning is interesting too:" ... Watson…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Cloud Robotics at SXSW
Earlier this month, the SXSW interactive conference held a session on Cloud Robotics: Instant Scalability and Capability. The panel was highlighted in the Wall Street Journal as one of the moments that stood out at the conference…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncertainty Traps
In Knowledge@Wharton: Had not heard the term before, but knowing what you don't know is always a useful thing. And leads to statements like: "If we had this data ... THEN ... we could calculate predict, refine this result…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Leslie Lamport Recognized With 2013 A.M. Turing Award
Leslie Lamport, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, has been named as the recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award. The recognition is for his work in distributed computing systems, as described in the award citation…