Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2009
From insideHPC
SC makes top trade show ranking second year in a
A little inside baseball, but you may be interested to know that SC has been listed on the annual ranking of the 200 largest US tradeshows for the second year running (shows are ranked by square feet of exhibit space) SC, the…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How peer review is supposed to help you!
Malicious authors know how to get past peer review without effort:
Pretend to have run extensive experiments supporting your theories. When the experiments contradict you or are merely difficult to explain, clean them out conveniently…From The Eponymous Pickle
Google, P&G and New Customers
A Harvard Business conversation starter piece: How P&G and Google approach new customers. Also includes some useful comments on the topic. The obvious is stated: proactively understanding your customers before expanding to…
From Putting People First
Tim Brown on the participation economy
Nokia’s IdeasProject site features a video interview with Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, where he argues that that communications technology is leading us back to the kind of participation economy that existed before the industrial…
From CSDiary
Venkat Guruswami to Join CMU Faculty
I am truly pleased to announce that Venkatesan Guruswami will be joining the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department, effective July 1, 2009. One of the most important researchers in theoretical computer science…
From Wild WebMink
? The Music of the Spheres, and URI Integrity
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From The Eponymous PickleWhat Good are Mashups Anyway?
Interesting piece on the nature of mashups. Oddly I have seen less about the idea of late, but think its a good concept. " ... A new breed of Web-based data integration applications is laying its foundation across the Internet…
From The Eponymous PickleCorporate Avatars?
When I first read this piece I was confused. Is a visual representation of a person OK to represent a company? I had read Byron Reeves: Media Equation .... which seemed to say that people are more likely to respond honestly…
From Putting People FirstLiving and learning with social media
danah boyd (blog), a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, was one of the featured speakers at the April 18 Penn State Symposium for Teaching…
From Wild WebMinklinks for 2009-05-02
Unrest in the Eclipse community. I wonder if the Board over there will entertain this sort of discussion? Good test.(tags: Eclipse Governance…
From insideHPCTake the
We've had a couple surveys over the years here at insideHPC -- we've done shirt surveys and asked you what we could change to make things better -- but as we were kicking back here at world HQ the other day we realized we had…
From Putting People FirstPutting people first: working together with user-led organisations
This document from the UK Department for Health outlines the benefits that local authorities, and their residents, enjoy when they work with user-led organisations. Benefits range from helping local authorities deliver greater…
From Putting People FirstOn engineering and design: an open letter
Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton calls for engineers and user-experience designers to learn to appreciate one another: “End-user satisfaction and quality of experience need to be the fundamental pillars of any…
From The Eponymous PickleBusiness Intelligence in Downturns
CapGemini recording on the value of BI in business downturns. Notable mentions of operational optimization using BI and allied analytical methods. By Stephen D. Harris.
From The Eponymous PickleCACM Launches Website
I have reported on this a number of times during its test, but now The Communications of the ACM has formally launched their new web site. The Press release here. Includes a number of new venues and blogs, including this one…
From Apophenia"Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data"
In mid-April, journalists heard about a student poster at the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting called "A Description of Facebook Use and Academic Performance Among Undergraduate and Graduate Students…
From Putting People FirstACM rolls out new Communications website, which features Putting People First
From The Noisy ChannelSIGIR
You can now register for SIGIR 2009! Here are the details from the registration page: Registration fees for ACM members are as follows:
$695 for the main three-day conference, including the conference banquet; $395 for students…
From The Noisy ChannelSIGIR
You can now register for SIGIR 2009! Here are the details from the registration page: Registration fees for ACM members are as follows:
$695 for the main three-day conference, including the conference banquet; $395 for students…
From insideHPCApple Secretly Securing Silicon
Following our coverage of Apple’s recent hiring of Bob Drebin, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal [print addition] that elaborated a bit on Apple’s recent hiring practices.
From Wild WebMinklinks for 2009-05-01
"The Copyright Act was written in the pre-internet age, and does not address any of the complexities surrounding file sharing, format shifting,…
From The Noisy ChannelConferences, Conferences, Conferences!
Apologies for the lull in blogging this week, but it’s been a busy week in what looks to be a busy spring (and summer!) of conferences related to information access. This week, I was in Boston, presenting at the Infonortics Search…
From The Noisy ChannelConferences, Conferences, Conferences!
Apologies for the lull in blogging this week, but it’s been a busy week in what looks to be a busy spring (and summer!) of conferences related to information access. This week, I was in Boston, presenting at the Infonortics Search…
From The Eponymous PickleTwittering With Mathematica
The latest Wolfram blog post is Twittering with Mathematica. Would you have expected a mathematics and visualization package to be able to interact with the API's of a social media package? A large set of case studies about…
From insideHPCEadline on
Douglas Eadline has a piece at Linux Journal this about frameworks that allow users to create HPC applications without MPI. He outlines a spectrum of implementation options that starts with MPI, moves to languages like CUDA and…
From BLOG@CACMCommon Problems of Se Students in Latin America, Part 2
Second part of this analysis of common problems faced by SE students in Latin America.
From insideHPCOfficial Release: Rackable Systems Receives Court Approval to Purchase Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics has released an official statement regarding the recent filing and subsequent purchase by Rackable.