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
The most dangerous
…from a computer program, as a professor at my alma mater used to say, is an answer that looks “about right.” Dan Reed has an interesting post on his blog right now on accuracy in scientific applications The parallel application…
From Putting People First
Gemalto, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips team up to advance
At the Future of the Internet conference in Prague today, Gemalto, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips announced a new initiative that will address the fundamental societal issue of trust in new and emerging digital services. The initiative…
From CSDiary
Back from Qatar
In a week it will be commencement weekend at Carnegie Mellon. The ceremony will hold special interest for the School of Computer Science, since Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be the keynote speaker. But in fact, we’ve already had…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asymmetric Following
O'Reilly on asymmetric following. This is an aspect of social media I had been thinking about since being introduced to them. He has some excellent points here. Complete symmetry is unscalable. You cannot effectively experience…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza Links with eHarmony
Another interesting application of advanced data warehousing capabilities. With other applications matching consumers and retailers:" ... Online dating service eHarmony has tapped data warehouse and business analytics company…
From Putting People First
Book: Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing
Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction J.D. Lasica The Aspen Institute, 2009 Smart Mobs reports: “Recently, The Aspen Institute has published…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The End of Voice Mail
Now that I am using systems like Google Voice I thought about the ultimate demise of voice mail. Yet that system does not always provide a good transcription of the audio, and there always has to be some sort of backup. And…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-10
Fascinating, and now it's discovered so obvious you wonder why no-one else has observed it before. I wonder if this has any implications for prime-based cryptography…
From Putting People First
Journal of Business Strategy on design innovation
A special issue of Journal of Business Strategy on
From The Noisy Channel
Designing for Faceted Search
While I was inundated with conferences a couple of weeks ago, I missed s a nice article by Stephanie Lemieux at User Interface Engineering (a site I recommend in general) entitled “Designing for Faceted Search“. It briefly explains…
From The Noisy Channel
Designing for Faceted Search
While I was inundated with conferences a couple of weeks ago, I missed s a nice article by Stephanie Lemieux at User Interface Engineering (a site I recommend in general) entitled “Designing for Faceted Search“. It briefly explains…
From insideHPC
Shareholders file suit to block Oracle purchase, Sun fears it bribed foreign
Sun gave the SEC some bad news on Friday. Computerworld is reporting that in a recent SEC filing Sun reveals that 3 different lawsuits have been filed by shareholders to block the sale. All three actions are aimed at blocking…
From The Noisy Channel
The Twouble with Twitter Search
There has been a flurry of reports about Twitter search–whether about Twitter’s plans to improve their search functionality or about alternative ways to search Twitter. But Danny Sullivan makes a great point in a recent post…
From The Noisy Channel
The Twouble with Twitter Search
There has been a flurry of reports about Twitter search–whether about Twitter’s plans to improve their search functionality or about alternative ways to search Twitter. But Danny Sullivan makes a great point in a recent post…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Experience with WolframAlpha
Yesterday I finally got early access to WolframAlpha. I understand it will be coming out publicly in the coming week(s). It is being positioned as '... Making the world's knowledge computable ... '. I have also seen two demonstrations…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Student Speaks Out About Computer Science Curriculum
CSTA has spent the last several years arguing for rigorous computer science courses in high school, for emphasizing critical, computational thinking skills, and for standards-based curriculum. Many teachers have told us of their…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dating Sites and Smell
In Discovery. An approach that makes sense, but without a practical aroma interface, difficult to implement: " ... Two companies, Basisnote and Scientific Match, are developing technology to match couples based on the genetic…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-09
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From Putting People FirstDesign and ethnography at a ubiquitous computing conference
One of the sessions at UbiComp 2008, the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous computing (Seoul, Korea), was devoted to design and ethnography. The four papers are all in the proceedings, but (except for the first one)…
From The Noisy ChannelWhat Should I Say About Social Search?
I’ll be at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York next week, participating on a panel Tuesday morning to discuss “Emergent Social Search Experience”. Our game plan as a panel is to discuss what social search is, why it matters…
From The Noisy ChannelWhat Should I Say About Social Search?
I’ll be at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York next week, participating on a panel Tuesday morning to discuss “Emergent Social Search Experience”. Our game plan as a panel is to discuss what social search is, why it matters…
From The Noisy ChannelMore Thoughts on Image Retrieval
After my recent posts about Google’s similarity browsing for images, a colleague reached out to me to educate me about some of the recent advances in image retrieval. This colleague is involved with an image retrieval startup…
From The Noisy ChannelMore Thoughts on Image Retrieval
After my recent posts about Google’s similarity browsing for images, a colleague reached out to me to educate me about some of the recent advances in image retrieval. This colleague is involved with an image retrieval startup…
From BLOG@CACMVisibility Matters: Why You Need a Professional Web Page
If you do research in computer science, you need to have a professional web page summarizing your research career. Let me tell you why it matters, and what information you should have on the web. Then, if you don't have one…
From The Eponymous PickleShoppers need Deadlines
In the Atlantic: Shoppers need Deadlines too, on promotions and gift-cards and related research.
From The Eponymous PickleGood Twitter Overview
Karel Vredenburg of IBM provides a good adult overview of Twitter behavior. What it is, how people are using it, and what they think about it. He got most of these insights by running surveys on Twitter. These are interesting…
From The Eponymous PickleAmazon Mechanical Turk Resource Center
After hearing little from Amazon's Mechanical Turk system for some time, I just received a note that they were establishing a resource center. This is an attempt to connect human and machine intelligence which I always thought…
From Wild WebMinklinks for 2009-05-08
"In a speech to the NESTA / UNESCO Public Service Media 2009 Conference the Minister announced plans for an overhaul of Crown Copyright rules…
From BLOG@CACMEnjoying Reading Research
If you find reading research papers unpleasant, difficult, and boring, maybe it is time to try doing it differently.
From insideHPCFirst week
Hey kids, we have a winner! Kevin B., a long time (like, from the very beginning) insideHPC reader got selected at random from the pool of people who have completed the survey in it’s first week. I’m still waiting to hear from…