Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2010
From Putting People First
Machiavelli 2.0
Alexander Schellong, a senior consultant with CSC
From Putting People First
Pope Benedict: people at the centre of the web
According to the Repubblica newspaper, the head of the Catholic Church has been arguing today for the centrality of the person on the web. We agree, but are surprised that this man who is in charge of an institution with some…
From Putting People First
Psychology, climate change and sustainable behaviour
Alexa Spence and Nick Pidgeon of Cardiff University write in Environment Magazine that meeting existing and future climate change targets will require rapid social transformations that economics and technology alone cannot induce…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-04-24
Final version of Procurement and Open Source Software Guideline published The European Commission's specialist open source unit, OSOR, has finally produced an official version of the procurement guidelines that Rishab Ghosh and…
From Putting People First
User experience in eGovernment
Stepan Doubrava and Jakub Franc of ExperienceU (Czech Republic), argues on the Global User Research blog for the proper use of user-centred design principles in eGovernment projects. “eGovernment, or the transfer of government…
From Putting People First
Challenging the limits of open society
Anand Giridharadas is one of my favourite writers at the New York Times and this time his reflection on the merits of open societies is particularly thought provoking. “A stunning idea has entered respectable American discourse…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simplicity in Packaging
A look at why complex times need simpler packaging.-
From Putting People First
IDEO on mobile and human-centered design
The Mobile Behavior blog interviewed Robert Suarez, a senior portfolio lead in the Consumer Experience design (CXd) group at IDEO. With a background in User experience design and human factors research, he has experience working…
From Putting People First
The BBC
The BBC UX&D team has published a global experience language for the BBC’s digital service: The GVL 3.0 guidelines are a reference point for all designers creating BBC websites (future iterations will also incorporate mobile…
From BLOG@CACM
Consumerization of IT and Research
When a corporate, government, or university IT department of the 1970s debated an upgrade to its IBM S/370 mainframes, it is doubtful that the IT director was in any way influenced by the computing experiences or opinions of …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Opening Night US Imagine Cup Finals
The competitors have arrived in Washington DC (OK technically Chevy Chase MD) for the US Imagine Cup finals. Tonight started with a light dinner, some social time, and then some welcoming remarks and discussion of logistics for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Neuroscience Tapes
A number of interviews with neuroscientists as show on the Charlie Rose show are now online, an overview is posted at the Mindhacks Site. I have happened to see only one of these, but they appear to be a good introduction to…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: SquidSquid.com
From Wild WebMink
? Explaining Freedom
Is satire a better tool than explanation for getting digital liberty issues onto the nation's political agenda?
From Schneier on Security
Video Interviews with Me
Mike Mimoso interviewed me at the RSA Conference last month.
From Schneier on Security
Two Security Cartoons
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Preparing Future Elementary Teachers to Teach Computing
This term, I am teaching an Education course to University of Oregon undergraduates entitled, Teachers as Cyborgs. Most of my students are juniors who intend to eventually pursue teacher certificates and Masters' degrees in …
From Computational Complexity
A Post on the Post Post
On Monday Richard Lipton wrote a nice piece on the work of Emil Post, a famous logician who had great results and even greater questions in the early days of recursion theory. I have a few comments and thought I would follow …
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Tesco as a New Measurement
In the BBC: UK retailer positions the Tesco as a new unit of measurement.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Google and Facebook are Using R
The techniques described are not new, but very much worthwhile for anyone hoping to do predictive analytics.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Display Concept
What seems like an outrageous new concept: What's next after a flat display? Something completely different:
" ... Designer Julia Tsao presented a seemingly outlandish yet provocative idea for a futuristic display at this week
From Schneier on SecurityThe Doghouse: Lock My PC
Lock My PC 4 has a master password.
From BLOG@CACMTurns out That Brain Training Games Don't Work
A brief article pointing to a new large scale study published in Nature about the effect of brain training games.
From The Eponymous PickleDelta: An Unworkable Consumer Model
Doug Lautzenheiser posts about a recent experience he had with up-charges by Delta Airlines. I have now flown out of Cincinnati for thirty-three years. Traveling all over the globe with them or affiliates. After I retired I was…
From The Eponymous PickleThe Thought Bank
Just brought to my attention via Steve King: The Thought Bank:' ... Our mission is to help companies become more effective thought leaders and increase their visibility and client engagement in the world as corporate social citizens…
From The Eponymous PickleMore to Networking than Social Networking
Social networking has taken off in many forms over the past few years. It works in the sense that connections that were difficult in the past can now be made and nurtured. Yet it is inefficient thing, where you have to wade through…
From My Biased CoinRandom Links for the Day
FemaleScienceProfessor tells an Evil Reviewer story. The CRA blog tells us that DARPA is back, in terms of funding university research. Ed Lazowska has related posts here and here at the CCC blog.If you think deciding authorship…
From Schneier on SecurityBooby-trapping a PDF File
From Putting People FirstA new age of user-repaired devices
iFixit launched today today a
From Putting People FirstBetter tech docs through social networking
The social networking phenomenon has ushered in a shift in mindset that, in turn, has driven people to become actively engaged in generating their own content and sharing it with an international audience on the Web, in contrast…