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
Data Interaction in Organizational Systems
This paper in Data Science Central relates to a number of previous projects, and proposals for enterprise work ongoing. An underlying goal, but still underachieved aspect of PG's Business Sphere. How do we get task focused…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moving from Simulation to the Holodeck
Looking at beginnings of the Holodeck. How does this related to virtual reality in general? Again I think this should always be connected to virtual reality. In general simulation is underused in computing technology. Consider…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Types of Math Culture from Computers
In the ACM: More on a new type of math. With some interesting visuals. In the early days of common computing we saw indications that computing would support mathematics, as opposed to just doing arithmetic. " ... Computers…
From Putting People First
Swedish inspirations on design for public policy
The Forum for Social Innovation Sweden is a meeting place for academia, industry, government, civic society and non-profit organisations in Sweden striving to develop social innovation and social entrepreneurship. As part of…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Codes Meet Numbers
Results and problems about primes that make us think of coding theory Cropped from source. Zhi-Wei Sun is a professor in Mathematics at Nanjing University in China. He is the Editor in Chief of the recently-founded Journal of…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Codes Meet Numbers
Results and problems about primes that make us think of coding theory Cropped from source. Zhi-Wei Sun is a professor in Mathematics at Nanjing University in China. He is the Editor in Chief of the recently-founded Journal of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Wins at Sochi
In Knowledge@Wharton. A detailed look at Procter's brand development with the Sochi Olympics. " ... Along with athletes, brand marketers also competed for attention at the recent winter Olympic Games in Sochi — and by many…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Running a Simple Classifier
Been following Machine Learning Mastery, by Jason Brownlee. He posted an item about a free classifier in Weka that I had not seen before. He includes a step by step approach that is worth a look Getting more tools to the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Millennial Work Ethics
In CLO Mag: An interview with Ian Wolfe. president of Success Performance Solutions. " ... It’s no secret that today’s workforce isn’t into working 9 to 5, coming to a physical office each day. But I was shocked when I read…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeting with Mobile: Coupons are Moving
In Forbes: Good overall view of how promotion couponing is moving to mobile:" ... Those coupons that used to be available from red dispensers on grocery store shelves and have moved more recently to offers printed at checkout…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Curious Calculations by Wolfram Alpha
Been a while since I looked at Wolfram Alpha. Here is an example page of questions that WA can solve when asked. Just click on each question on the link. As you might expect, most of the questions here are data and calculation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Major Snack Maker Digitizes and Socializes
More moves in ad socialization, in Ad Age:" ... Snack Maker's Media Chief Says 'It's About Digitizing Our Entire Approach to Communications' .. Master best practices for integrated marketing communications between advertising…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Any Monkey Can Learn To Code
One never knows where something is going to go on Twitter. I recently tweeted a link to a post by Garth Flint titled Teaching programming is not getting easier and had an interesting response on Twitter. @alfredtwo This is…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Launches Search for Division Director of Computer and Network Systems
Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation(NSF) for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has sent the following Letter to the Computing Community: Dear Colleagues…
From Putting People First
The Great Convergence
Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path argues that the constellations in the user experience field are shifting and that we are experiencing some sort of collision of three different “galaxies”: “The customer experience community…
From Putting People First
Search results on travel sites: examples and best practices
Search results pages on travel sites should help customers to find the best deal for them without having to work too hard. Graham Charlton of Econsultancy looked at a range of search tools from travel websites, which highlighted…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the State of Virtual Reality
In Technology Review: A review of the state of a technology, now some thirty years old, and how new startups are hoping to take it mainstream. The problem may well be that the early attempts were too complex. We started with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
You are Being Watched by a Algorithm
In Schneier on Security: You are being watched by algorithms. With the advent of methods that use Big Data to track, adapt and interact based on online sensors. Broad, but very true statement. An algorithm describes a system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Omnipresent Robots says Google
Bloomberg: Google’s Schmidt Sees Robots Omnipresent ‘in a Good Way’. " .. Google is pushing ahead with products beyond its core search business for new sources of user traffic and revenue in areas such as mobile and online video…
From Wild WebMink
Bitcoin exchanges need to get their act together
Originally posted on Meshed Insights & Knowledge:Sometimes it seems as though bitcoin is a required fixture in the news. The recent collapse of Mt Gox is just the latest in a string of headlines that may have you wondering why…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Expands Cyber-Physical Systems Program to Include DHS, DOT
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Keith Marzullo, division director for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS). Yesterday, the National Science Foundation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mentee Outreach
As part of an informal personal mentee outreach program I will be experimenting with the use of this blog and associated social media. All of these people are young students or practitioners of Analytics. Which I broadly define…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Famous Women in Computing Infographic
Very nice Famous Women in Computing Infographic from the Anita Borg Institute.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Wins GEO Award for Outsourcing Innovation
The 2014 awards. See in particular the complete case study. Nicely done by my former colleagues, congratulations. " ... Global Business Services: The Beginning of the Genesis to Drive Innovation in Outsourcing ... In 1999…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Firms Merge
Have worked with Sands, unexpected. More movement on understanding of non conscious marketing. In Neuromarketing: " ... Neuromarketing Consolidation: Sands Research and Neurons, Inc. Merge .... In a possible sign that the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Touchscreen Design
New ingenious touchscreen user interfaces. Suitable for navigation and other tasks that support and augment driving?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Based Enterprise
On the analytics based enterprise. " ... Analytics-based Enterprise and Risk Performance Management. Enterprise performance management (EPM) is the integration of multiple managerial methods to improve an organization's strategic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visibility and Predictive Supply Chain Analytics
In Digital Supply Chain: True, we have known for a long time. Devil is in the precise details of data gathered, decisions being influenced and analytics used." ... In our new world of distributed supply chains – where companies…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
When Knowing The Syntax Is Not Enough
This week has been hectic for a lot of reasons. Getting my grades and comments in for progress reports has just been part of it. I haven’t had the time or energy to write much at all other than comments for progress reports.CODING…
From Putting People First
How collaborating with patients improves hospital care
The Guardian reports on how a new UK project where patients and NHS staff work together to improve services shows that even small changes can have a big impact on the quality of care. The project, with an impossibly long name…