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 Putting People First
Radical UX focus created a $1 billion company
Kim-Mai Cutler writes in TechCrunch how a radical UX focus was Instagram’s secret ingredient to success: “With their UX skills, Krieger and Systrom refined Instagram to require as few actions as possible. Unlike the original…
From Wild WebMink
Eco Mower
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Eco Mower, a photo by webmink on Flickr. Cows are respected as a symbolic spiritual presence in India. They roam the streets freely and are described as “sacred”. I took this photograph on the…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Do Magic and Computer Science Have in Common?
Industrial Light and Magic has got to be one of the coolest company names I have ever heard. It doesn
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThinkVine Links with KBM Group
Press release. A good example of analytic and knowledge management in key marketing applications: ".... KBM Group, the global leader in knowledge-based marketing solutions, has entered a strategic partnership with ThinkVine…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Dept. of Education Releases Learning Analytics Issue Brief
The Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Educational Technology today released a draft issue brief — Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conceptual Modeling
Thoughts on the application and value of conceptual modeling for Big Data Applications.
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Free Sustainability Analysis Tool
P&G is making a spreadsheet based sustainability tool freely available. More here. " ... The Excel-based tool, launched last year, enables companies to measure and interpret key environmental sustainability metrics across their…
From Putting People First
Meet Google
James Temple of the San Francisco Chronicle profiles Daniel Russell (video), Google’s search scientist (or as he calls it “search anthropologist”). “About four years after forming, Google came to realise it needed human insights…
From My Biased Coin
Talk at Hearst Mining....
Giorgos is on a west coast tour this week. Today he's speaking at the Berkeley EconCS seminar on our work on Groupon and Yelp. 12:30, 410 Hearst Mining. Info here. If you're around, go to the talk and tell him I sent you. …
From Schneier on Security
Teenagers and Privacy
Good article debunking the myth that young people don't care about privacy on the Intenet.
Most kids are well aware of risks, and make "fairly sophisticated" decisions about privacy settings based on advice and information from…From Computational Complexity
I'll be on that list until the day I die. Or later.
How hard is it to get OFF of lists? Univ of MD at College Park (UMCP) Professor Carl Smith was an editor for JCSS before his death in 2004. I put together a memorial issue of JCSS in his honor that appeared in 2008. SO HOW…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Opportunities for Retail
In Progressive Grocer: An engagement study is previewed;Print and online circulars are almost neck and neck in helpfulness, but recipes and apps are driving more consumers online to engage grocers, according to a new report…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Overview
In the Atlantic: A good, very non-technical overview of data mining. Lots of people are asking these days. " ... Big data is everywhere we look these days. Businesses are falling all over themselves to hire 'data scientists…
From The Eponymous Pickle
FlexTime and TeleWork Leading to Better Knowledge Management
I have been working in recent days with a company on how collaboration can be improved. Here an article on TeleWork. Saving money, and also leading to better knowledge management. More to follow.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP Announces Grand Challenges Conference;CCC Seeking Your Topic Ideas
Yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
dream.build.play reminder
The dream.build.play challenge is still wide open for people looking to take their Windows Phone or Xbox 360 game to the next level and win some big prizes.
Create a Game & Bring Your Ideas to Life
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From Wild WebMinkA New Kind Of
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 The Computing Community Consortium BlogCRA
The Computing Research Association (CRA)
From The Female Perspective of Computer ScienceWhat Double Fine Adventure Means to Me
The very first feature-length games I played were point and click adventures. I have particularly fond memories of King's Quest and Day of the Tentacle. But those memories were just about lost to me as that genre of games became…
From Computer Science Teachers AssociationA Plea for the Return of Affirmative Action Programs
A bit of a shaggy dog story....in the summer of 1975 I participated in the Bell Laboratories summer program for women and minorities. I spent the summer evaluating Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) programs, making a recommendation…
From The Eponymous PickleCreative Machines Overtaking Man
What happens when creative machines overtake us? Can machines be creative? We examined this for the product development context. It did not lead to anything substantial at the time, but I am convinced the possibilities were…
From Putting People FirstFrom banker to service designer
Olga Morawczysnki, project Manager of Grameen Foundation
From The Computing Community Consortium BlogDARPA to Issue New Grand Challenge
Word surfaced last week of a new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge, expected to be issued shortly. First reported by
From Schneier on SecurityLaptops and the TSA
The New York Times tries to make sense of the TSA's policies on computers. Why do you have to take your tiny laptop out of your bag, but not your iPad? Their conclusion: security theater.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred ThompsonInteresting Links Post 9 April 2012
I need a favor. A small favor. I need people to click this link and go vote for the Imagine Cup People
From The Eponymous PickleSupermarkets Taking to Tablets
Phil Lempert on how, Supermarket blogger who often has interesting insights, on how retailers are taking to tablets. I have only seen a tablet used once in physical retail, but they can increase purchases from home.
From Wild WebMinkEaster Message
Who said this? “The Church in its own bubble has become, at best the guardian of the value system of the nation
From The Eponymous PickleUltra Precise Location, Indoors and Outdoors
Location capabilities are a long time interest of mine, based on work in retail innovation centers and with several startups with differing accuracy needs and goals. In Technology Review: "... Broadcom has just rolled out…
From The Eponymous PickleData Modeling Mistakes
A slide show. I post about this here because the slide show images have no relationship to the content. They add no insight. Another example of the infographic influence trend where images are the driving force, as in social…
From The Eponymous PickleConversable Economist
Newly pointed to by M. Perry's Carpe Diem.: The blog: The Conversable Economist. In particular a post about changes in prices of simple commodities over very long periods. Discussed is the price of nails used in building.…