Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2010
From Putting People First
Open positions at Experientia
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
COMPETES Act Reauthorization Takes First Step Through Congress
Last Wednesday at the end of a long markup session, the House Science and Technology Committee approved a bill that would reauthorize the American COMPETES Act, passed in 2007. That bill covered many things, most prominently…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 3 May 2010
Last week was a struggle for me both blogging and otherwise. A lot of stuff going on at work and at home. Plus of course I spent a lot of my blogging energy on the Imagine Cup. I loved being at and blogging about the ImagineWindows…
From Schneier on Security
Security Analysis of India's Electronic Voting Machines
They're vulnerable to fraud.
From Computational Complexity
Guest Post on Robin Milner who passed away recently
Robin Milner died on March 20, 2010. For obits see here and here. A review of his most recent book will be in a future SIGACT NEWS book review column; however, you can read it here.
This is a guest post by Rance Cleaveland…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 3
May 5
Hearing:
The Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn Building…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Toward Data-driven Science
Science and business, so far, has being mostly model driven. That is, you collect a few data points, just enough to fit your model. Then you proceed from your model. However, things have changed:
old new
Manually take samples…From My Biased Coin
The Computer Science Ecosystem
Inspired a bit by some inspirational, high-level talks I've seen the last few days (see Matt's take on Ed Lazowska's talk at Harvard here), I've been thinking about what I'll call the computer science ecosystem. The inspirational…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Way to Measure WOM
A new way to measure word-of-mouth marketing from McKinsey that includes exposure and impact.
From Putting People First
Book: Storytelling for User Experience
Storytelling for User Experience – Crafting Stories for Better Design By Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks Rosenfeld Media April 2010 Availability: Paperback + PDF We all tell stories. It
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuromarketing List
A new neuromarketing Twitter list being constructed #neuromarketing Online here. Looks to have some useful follows.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frugal and Bandit Innovation
Sammy Haroon in the Global Cognition Blog on Frugal and Bandit Innovation.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moile Acts Differently in Store
An intriguing idea at Barnes & Noble. This also can cause people to enter the store, a loyalty play: In StoreFrontBacktalk: " ... For this experiment, Barnes & Noble
From The Noisy Channel
Thoughts About Online Reputation
Sorry for the long delay between posts. Fortunately the blogosphere has been providing ample reading material about the saga of the lost iPhone and the war of words between Apple and Adobe. I’ve been doing some reading myself…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Computational Knowledge Summit
From the Wolfram Blog, a London Computational Knowledge Summit, being held on June 9. Some interesting topics covered:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rhymes for Our Times
A long time advertising expert colleague of mine, Norm Levy, who pioneered a number of marketing techniques used broadly in an enterprise I was entrenched in, has published a book called Rhymes for our Times. I had seen himSee…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining and Infection Control
A piece from the ACM on infection control using data mining, we were also involved in a project that addressed a similar problem. Good description. ' ... According to Chun Wong, chief executive officer of Asolva , a developer…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
South Africa
I recently had the opportunity to travel to South Africa to talk with teachers and computer science education faculty about the computing curriculum in South African and the United States. They are concerned with low numbers…
From Michael Nielsen
Introduction to the Polymath Project and
In January of 2009, Tim Gowers initiated an experiment in massively collaborative mathematics, the Polymath Project. The initial stage of this project was extremely successful, and led to two scientific papers:…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-01
Red Hat Prevails Against Patent Trolls in Federal District Court Given the warnings from Steve Jobs about the gathering attack on open source, this has the feeling of the first surge against Helms Deep, but it's still gratifying…
From Putting People First
RIM
A Canadian article about Canada’s most important technology company, Research in Motion (the makers of the Blackberry), is always worth delving into. “RIM captured boardrooms by reinventing business communication. Now it faces…
From Putting People First
UX book reviews: May 2010
The folks at Johnny Holland have published reviews on no less than four UX related books: Beyond the Usability Lab Authors: Bill Albert, Donna Tedesco, Thomas Tullis Publishers: Morgan Kaufman [Companion website - Amazon] User…