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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 April 2012
Later this week I head out to Redmond Washington to take part in the US finals of the Imagine Cup. We have 22 teams coming out there for the event. Twenty one of these teams are from colleges and universities but one of themSpringbrook…
From Wild WebMink
Beware The
As wave after wave of privacy news arrives, it’s easy to believe that public postings on social media sites are the problem. But I believe we are facing an issue caused not by public sharing but by an encounter with a new kind…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Keeping it real
Lee Kolbert wrote a blog post (Dear Will Richardson ) that I see as a real call to action for those of us who promote ourselves as experts working to help teachers do their jobs better. The basic suggestion is that those of us…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Work Force Dropping
In the Atlantic: Why the future of retail doesn't need workers. Partially agree. It still needs workers, just a reapportionment of them. New skills. More innovation. Better engagement tools and skills.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Terry Jones on Breakthrough Innovation
A keynote presentation on regarding breaking through corporate organizational barriers to innovation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Leadership Lessons from Unilever
Global leadership lessons from Unilever:" ... Kruythoff was appointed president of Unilever's North American cluster in September 2011. Based in the United States, the job gives him responsibility for what he believes is his
…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computational Biology,
This week’s Science magazine
From Wild WebMink
Global Mink
My new travel and photo journal, The Global Mink, is already getting plenty of traffic. One lesson I learned long ago is to always publish anything you care about on your own domain, as you can never be sure what will happen…
From Wild WebMink
I Always Wanted A Portico
I Always Wanted A Portico, originally uploaded by webmink. This house in Edinburgh has a grand classical portico – on the roof of the house next door! Never let practicality get in the way of your dreams!
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recording Brain Waves at the Supermarket
Stephen Sands of Sands Research gives a talk at a recent conference: " ... Dr. Stephen Sands focused his presentation on recording brain waves at the super market and about what happens in the brain when people spot an item of…
From The Noisy Channel
Data, Algorithms, and People
One of the highlights of the recent Data 2.0 Summit was a panel featuring: Alexander Gray,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Daily
Just noted, an aggregation of augmented reality news items. A client just reminded me of this topic, so you will see more mentions of it. How can it effectively be connected to more mundane business intelligence data sources…
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Bank Opens Access
I acted as a judge for some World Bank investments, so this announcement is interesting. A good direction for this kid of information. Any structured or unstructured data involved could be useful for economic analysis
From Putting People First
Interactive eBook apps: the reinvention of reading and interactivity
Avi Itzkovitch argues that the experience of interactive eBooks should not be confined to animations based on touch-and-response interaction, or merely flipping the page; when designing these Books one must ask what is the enhanced…
From CERIAS Blog
Panel #3: Securing Mobile Devices (Panel Summary)
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Panel Members:
- Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue
- David Keppler, MITRE
- Jeremy Rasmussen, CACI
Panel summary by Robert Winkworth.
The panel was moderated by Keith Watson, CERIAS, Purdue University.
In light of…From CERIAS Blog
Panel #2: Big Data Analytics (Panel Summary)
Tuesday April 3, 2012
Panel Members:
- William S. Cleveland, Purdue University
- Marc Brooks, MITRE Corporation
- Jamie Van Randwyk, Sandia National Laboratories
- Alok R. Chaturvedi, Professor, Purdue University
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fiction
Great short story in Nature.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing Theory and Practice
A review of a new magazine on Neuromarketing Theory and Practice. Looks to be very interesting but pricey. I see that a favorite consultant of mine in this space, Stephen Sands of Sands Research, has an article in it about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Pentagon and Augmented Reality
And as you might expect, the US DOD is very interested in the idea of hands-free augmented reality displays. They have played in this space in a number of ways in the past, including early heads-up displays in aircraft. In…
From CERIAS Blog
Panel #1: Securing SCADA Systems (Panel Summary)
Tuesday April 3, 2012
Panel Members:
From CERIAS Blog
Opening Keynote: Arthur W. Coviello, Jr. (Keynote Summary)
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Keynote summary by Gaspar Modelo-Howard
The State of Security
Arthur W. Coviello, Jr., Chairman, RSA, The Security Division of EMC
Mr. Coviello opened his keynote with a quote from Nicholas Negroponte…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Tech is Changing Retail
Short interview in AdWeek: With Laura Davis-Taylor. Nothing very new, but reminders of the broad challenge of adoption. I like her ending quote: " ... Whenever you
From Schneier on Security
Me at RSA 2012
This is not a video of my talk at the RSA Conference earlier this year. This is a 16-minute version of that talk -- TED-like -- that the conference filmed the day after for the purpose of putting it on the Internet.
Today's…From Putting People First
Design principles for complex, unpredictable, people oriented systems
InfoDesign alerts us to a well-thought through post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger of IBM on experience and systems: “But, socio-technical systems are oriented toward people and services. While product excellence and competitive…
From Putting People First
Digital differences in the USA
When the Pew Internet Project first began writing about the role of the internet in American life in 2000, there were stark differences between those who were using the internet and those who were not.1 Today, differences in…
From Putting People First
European Commission consults on rules for
The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is a future in which everyday objects such as phones, cars, household appliances, clothes and even food are wirelessly connected to the Internet through smart chips, and can collect and share data…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to manipulate the masses by language alone
George Orwell with novel 1984 popularized the idea that by changing the language, you could change the minds. It is easy to forget that we are routinely victims of this strategy. A fascinating example is the French language itself…
From Putting People First
Prisma kitchen at Eurocucina 2012
A high-tech kitchen and an instant classic, designed by Experientia, for Toncelli kitchens Minimalist design in a high-tech kitchen Experientia is taking part in the Salone del Mobile in Milan this year, with its brand new kitchen…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Craft of Research
"I still don't know what the f**k I'm doing." I was so relieved when recently I heard a superstar researcher, a full professor in computer science, say this about research. I have so much to learn about how to be a good researcher…
From My Biased Coin
In the News this Week...
Our large data sets work on MIC is discussed in Nature Biotechnology. (Funnily, none of the us authors of the paper knew this was coming out. One of us heard from a colleague that it was there.) I'm unused to this format where…