Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2009
From Putting People First
Paper: Mobile phone access and usage in Africa
Research ICT Africa!, a network of universities and research institutions from 19 African countries, has a site with some interesting research papers and presentations: Mobile telephony access and usage in Africa (2009) Chabossou…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-19
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My favourite poet has released another collection of poems - only in the US though. On order.
From CSDiary
A Bumper Crop of New PhD Students
This is CMU’s Spring Carnival weekend, the biggest annual student event of the year, traditionally the “real” homecoming for alumni. As a racing fan, I love watching the weekend’s buggy races. A “buggy” is a kind of wagon driven…
From insideHPC
Debugging whitepaper from
Chris Gottbrath from TotalView Technologies has just posted a new whitepaper [PDF] up at the TotalView site, “Deterministically Troubleshooting Network Distributed Applications.” This paper will look at three different ways to…
From The Noisy Channel
Is Differentiated Content Enough To Save Newspapers?
The Guardian headline sums it up: “Big newspaper sites ‘erode value of news’, says Sly Bailey“. Sly Bailey is the
From The Noisy Channel
Is Differentiated Content Enough To Save Newspapers?
The Guardian headline sums it up: “Big newspaper sites ‘erode value of news’, says Sly Bailey“. Sly Bailey is the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Marketing Needed
Consider agile marketing." ... Though an overwhelming majority (88%) of global executives believe that organizational agility is important to business success, 27% say their company is at a competitive disadvantage because it…
From BLOG@CACM
'There's an App For That,' and You Could Write It
The challenge of computing education today is convincing students that not every application is done and available for download.
From Putting People First
Let them eat tweets
Virginia Heffernan writes in the New York Times Magazine on why Twitter is a trap. “These worries started to surface for me last month, when Bruce Sterling, the cyberpunk writer, proposed at the South by Southwest tech conference…
From The Noisy Channel
Plan to Attend SIGIR
SIGIR 2009 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and at Northeastern University. The conference will run from July 19-23, 2009. Even if you are not a researcher and shy away from academic conferences…
From The Noisy Channel
Plan to Attend SIGIR
SIGIR 2009 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and at Northeastern University. The conference will run from July 19-23, 2009. Even if you are not a researcher and shy away from academic conferences…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-17
From insideHPC
Sun to IBM,
Various people are pointing to this, but I found it courtesy of Joe Landman. Evidently Bloomberg has people on the inside. From their most recent update Sun Microsystems Inc. would be willing to resume acquisition talks if International…
From The Noisy Channel
AmazonFail = TaxonomyFail?
By now, #amazonfail seems like old news (yesterday’s detwitus?), though apparently Amazon’s PR folks are still doing damage control. But what intrigues me was something in Clay Shirky’s nostra culpa post comparing the collective…
From The Noisy Channel
Booking it to the Finish Line
To my delight–not to mention the delight of my family, colleagues, and publisher–I’m almost done with the book! I went into this project suspecting that book writing wouldn’t be quite like blogging, and that suspicion is now…
From The Noisy Channel
Booking it to the Finish Line
To my delight–not to mention the delight of my family, colleagues, and publisher–I’m almost done with the book! I went into this project suspecting that book writing wouldn’t be quite like blogging, and that suspicion is now…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality for Research
In Brandweek: A good overview of work that is underway in a number of companies. These methods " ... are now standard for the larger packaged goods firms like Procter & Gamble, Frito-Lay, ConAgra and Intel, which have been using…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM New Intelligence Video : Analytics
The IBM Smarter Planet program has a short video: New Intelligence, which is a good promotional piece for analytical methods. They seem to imply they invented analytics and created 'service science'. Their site provides more…
From Wild WebMink
Friday links on April 17
If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality Well yes. This is the reason why, no matter how cool it may be to buy electronic books, the Kindle (and other DRM-in-a-sexy-box schemes) are to be avoided at all…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Shelf Labels, Again
More on Electronic Shelf Labels. I studied the issue of electronic shelf labels (ESL) nearly a decade ago and participated in several tests. If you have not looked at this, it is a tiny LCD label that replaces the printed price…
From CSDiary
Dave Andersen
It is now well-known that power is a big problem for operating large data centers. Companies pay huge amounts of money for the energy to power and cool their server clusters, and the negative impact on the environment caused…
From Putting People First
Global usability organisation embraces design
In December last year, the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) organised its first European conference in Turin, Italy, with a focus on the connection between usability and design. The very successful conference, which…
From Putting People First
Persuasive design for sustainability
Jeremy Faludi has compiled — in an article for Core77 00 a synthesis of the work of Stanford lecturer and researcher BJ Fogg on the field of persuasive design, and applies his insights to the field of sustainability: “Persuasion…
From Putting People First
Three environmental discourses in human-computer interaction
Elizabeth Goodman of the UC Berkeley School of Information made a presentation on the past and future of environmental issues and HCI at the recent CHI conference: A review of the past decade of human-computer interaction relating…
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2009-04-16 [del.icio.us]
From insideHPC
Is Parallel Programming
Dr. Guy Blelloch of Carnegie Mellon University has written an article for the folks at CilkArts analyzing why parallel programming seems to be more difficult than sequential programming.
From insideHPC
Timeline-O-Bo
Douglas Eadline at Linux Magazine has written up an interesting summary of news posts regarding the recent history of Silicon Graphics’ CEO, Bo Ewald.
From The Noisy Channel
Enterprise Search is Green
While I’m all for eco-friendly goods and services, I don’t usually think of my work as helping to save the environment. But this post from Vivisimo Chief Scientist Jerome Presenti about “Recycling the Information Wastelands”…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smells Like in a Billion Bucks
In Fast Company. A teaser of an insider's look into Procter and what it takes to be a billion dollar brand. Check out the bizarre Old Spice site, it's not your old sailor anymore.
From The Noisy Channel
The Craft of Exploratory Search
Posts like this one from Gene Golovchinsky make me feel sad that I didn’t actually attend CHI, though I’m glad I did get to hang out with the exploratory search clique that Wednesday evening. As I’m helping get the HCIR ‘09 workshop…