Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2012
From Schneier on Security
Fear and the Attention Economy
danah boyd is thinking about -- in a draft essay, and as a recording of a presentation -- fear and the attention economy. Basically, she is making the argument that the attention economy magnifies the culture of fear because…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visionaries Spot the Future
In Wired: Several notable visionaries describe how they spot the future. Including several we worked with. It is always about a context. Notably Paul Saffo: " ... A longtime technology forecaster, Saffo is a managing director…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
The House Will Engage With Cybersecurity Legislation This Week
While Congress has tried to pass major cybersecurity legislation for the last few years, this week marks what could be a major step forward in finally getting a bill to the President’s desk. The House leadership has scheduled…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cray Urika
Taking a look at Cray Computer. Years ago, in 1996, when they had just combined with Silicon Graphics, also an early platform we used, I gave a talk to their executive group at a retreat outlining enterprise uses of their…
From Wild WebMink
Random Memes
Plenty on my mind this week, so to focus I’ve written a quick post on ComputerWorldUK listing some of the things I’m thinking about. A bit random; I’d be interested in feedback on this approach.
From The Eponymous Pickle
If You Like Will You Buy?
From the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative:Intriguing data and behavior analysis opportunity:IF YOU "LIKE" WILL YOU BUY? NEW DATA ON SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSURE AND PURCHASE BEHAVIORA WCAI Research Opportunity Sponsored by a Multinational…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF, SRC Partner on Failure-Resistant Systems
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From Schneier on Security
Amazing Round of "Split or Steal"
In Liars and Outliers, I use the metaphor of the Prisoner's Dilemma to exemplify the conflict between group interest and self-interest. There are a gazillion academic papers on the Prisoner's Dilemma from a good dozen different…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Care Supply Chain Solutions
Just had an enlightening discussion with Dave Swart, of Health Chain Solutions Ltd. They address the question of how you utilize increasingly available health care data to improve the system, from the provider to the patient…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fujitsu enters Big Data
In a recent interesting development, Japanese hardware and software giant has proposed a software suite that addresses big data. " ... The company announced server software aimed at handling large, diverse file systems, quickly…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
One-on-One With Watson Creator David Ferrucci
David Ferrucci, the IBM
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
US Imagine Cup Winners 2012
The 2012 Imagine Cup is now history for most teams. A few are still involved as they are on their way to Sydney Australia for the world wide finals this July. So far that includes FlashFood who will be representing the US in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology and Its Use Continue to Speed up
A graph displays the penetration of many common technologies into US households. Source at the link and larger graph at the link. See the comments in the link for some remarks on how this kind of data has natural biases. …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Transforming the Front End of Innovation
Intriguing webinar case study of work by Kimberly-Clark. I plan to attend. The idea of using concept development is something we are using effectively to this day." ... Join Cor Bosselaar, Portfolio Leader at Kimberly-Clark…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why I
This month, in UCLA
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why I
This month, in UCLA
From My Biased Coin
Thanks, Yale Daily News!
Harvard's CS50 class is nicely lauded -- by a column in the Yale Daily News. First, the Harvard-centric stuff:
The good news is that there
From The Eponymous PickleIntroverts and Innovation
In the HBR Blogs: Although Myers Briggs tests are not technically meant to label introvert-extrovert, we did experiment with it broadly to help people understand styles of both customers and colleagues. It was commonly thought…
From The Eponymous PickleSocial Media Advertising Exploding
In AdAge: A good opinion piece predicting the continuing increase of using social media to engage. Suggestion is that a battle will ensue between digital media and social media enabled agencies. Its all about advertising…
From The Eponymous PickleDissolvable Packaging
An experimental topic for some time. It always requires a second protective layer for making sure that encounters with water or high moisture don't cause problems. It can improve the cleanliness or simplicity of the introduction…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACMHill Tech Happenings, Week of April 23
The House is expected to consider four cybersecurity bills on Thursday and Friday, April 26 and 27. April 24 Hearing: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the migration of video viewing…
From The Computing Community Consortium BlogNASA Holds International Space Apps Challenge;Preliminary Results Posted
Last October, we noted that
From Computational ComplexityCS in the Sunshine State
As many of you've heard the Dean of Engineering at the University of Florida is planning deep cuts to the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department (CISE) and focusing its mission solely on teaching. Here is…
From The Computing Community Consortium BlogNSF Issues IGERT Solicitation Focused on Big Data
The National Science Foundation (NSF) last week issued a new solicitation under its
From Schneier on SecurityAlan Turing Cryptanalysis Papers
GCHQ, the UK government's communications headquarters, has released two new -- well, 70 years old, but new to us -- cryptanalysis documents by Alan Turing.
The papers, one entitled The Applications of Probability to Crypt, and…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred ThompsonInteresting Links 23 April 2012
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From The Eponymous PickleFuture of Data Visualization
From the Tableau Software Blog: On the future of data visualization. Well put, but in addition being able to interact with a visualization so it can fit both a changing environment and the needs of the user will be key capabilities…
From Putting People FirstWhether the digital era improves society is up to its users
Social media in particular has inexorably changed the world, driving openness and fear
From Putting People FirstThe flight from conversation
Sherry Turkle is a psychologist and professor at M.I.T., says we use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just right: the Goldilocks effect. “Over the past 15 years, I
From Putting People FirstRise of smart mobile services
Saar Gur, general partner at Charles River Ventures, discusses a new generation of smart mobile services, which provide user information in the background to make accurate predictions around real-time user intention and will…