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 The Eponymous Pickle
Procter's Green Scorecard
Procter & Gamble has established a green scorecard for advertising agencies.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Demise of the Land Line
Good piece in GigOM about the demise of the landline. Includes some useful statistics about how more people are using mobile as their only phone. We are getting closer to that, but the driving force is that there is much less…
From The Eponymous Pickle
About Your Web Site
Paul Gillin has a nice post on Seven Questions to Ask About Your Web Site.Good overview for people setting up their first site, but also a useful checklist if you are reviewing a site for a redesign. I also get many people asking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media a Fad?
If you have not seen this yet, worth a look. Video regarding Socialnomics. Via Duncan Berry.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Business Intelligence
In BeyeNetwork: A podcast on the power of mobile business intelligence.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The 2010 CSTA Elections
For the first time, CSTA used on-line voting for determining its representatives to the Board of Directors. I'd first like to start by congratulating the winners of the contested elections:
Duncan Buell: University Representative…From Computational Complexity
Knowledge is Power!
In my last post I gave and asked for examples of people who didn't know things that they really ought to know. A commenter named Josh said posted the following:
Bill's question seems to generate a lot of nonpositive responses…From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-05-13
KEI statement on possible WTO disputes against the EU seizures of goods in transit Very important issue here: Should goods in transit from A to B be subject to seizure in the places they simply pass through rather? Saying "yes"…
From Schneier on Security
Worst-Case Thinking
At a security conference recently, the moderator asked the panel of distinguished cybersecurity leaders what their nightmare scenario was. The answers were the predictable array of large-scale attacks: against our communications…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Assessment And Computer Science
I was reading the CSTA blog the other day and there is an article called Assessment by Joanna Goode that got me thinking. Good blog posts are like that
From The Noisy Channel
Slides from Enterprise Search Summit Keynotes
Here are the slides from Marti Hearst’s and Peter Morville’s keynote presentations at the Enterprise Search Summit: Designing Search For Humans
Search & Discovery Patterns
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Says it Failed at Social
In an unusual revelation, Google has admitted that it has not done very well delivering social media solutions. Most notable is their most recent solution, attached to GMail, called Buzz. I have used Buzz now for a few months…
From The Noisy Channel
Something Different from Google New York
Earlier this week, I mentioned that my colleagues here at Google New York were working cool stuff. Today some of them officially blogged about it! Check out today’s official Google blog post about “Understanding the web to find…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Education Policy Committee and USACM Offer Support for COMPETES Reauthorization Bill
The House Science and Technology Committee recently marked up a bill to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act. In recognition of this effort, the ACM Education Policy Committee and the U.S. Public Policy Council of ACM sent the…
From Computational Complexity
What did he know and when did he know it?
Sometimes you learn a theorem in your academic career far later than you should have. Here are some examples. I didn't know the classic upper bounds on the higher Ramsey Numbers until 2 months ago (note that I have been studying…
From The Noisy Channel
Peter Morville
This morning’s Enterprise Search Summit keynote was by Peter Morville, who has written a number of best-selling books about information architecture. I’ve known Peter for a while and had the pleasure of serving as a reviewer…
From Putting People First
The future of news
The Spring 2010 issue of D
From The Eponymous Pickle
Measuring Likes in Facebook
A curious piece in AdAge about measurement of affinities to products in Facebook. Does liking this, or liking that create an obvious connection for targeted advertisement? Reminds me of work we did long ago in content analysis…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sands Research Reports EEG Breakthrough
An intriguing development that includes both speed and coverage, remains to be seen what this implies for data that can drive neuromarketing conclusions from Sands ResearchSands Research Acheives Neuromarketing Breakthrough Captures…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Braincast
Jerry Michalski, who we often had in at the enterprise, does his first braincast. We explored some of his methods of retrieving information using a method called PersonalBrain a few years ago. He has been using this method for…
From Schneier on Security
"If You See Something, Say Something"
That slogan is owned by New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (the MTA).
Since obtaining the trademark in 2007, the authority has granted permission to use the phrase in public awareness campaigns to 54 organizations in …From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Join the Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12 2010
Things are a little scary in Washington DC these days. From the ISTE Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech
The 2011 federal budget eliminates funding for Enhancing Education Through Technology, or EETT, which is the only dedicated…From The Eponymous Pickle
Mass Customization
Upcoming Mass Customization event at MIT. And more on mass customization.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Connecting Computer Science
I taught the first lecture of my first undergrad course last night. As I've mentioned before, it's a class called Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences, and it's not a required course, though many students use…
From The Noisy Channel
Marti Hearst
The Enterprise Search Summit is taking place in New York this week, and I was lucky to be able to attend Marti Hearst’s opening keynote this morning about designing search for humans. If you’ve read her book or heard her present…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IdeaLab
Steve Rubel visits Idealab and discusses Tweetup.' ... TweetUp combines sophisticated relevance algorithms with a bidding system to raise your best tweets to the top of search results and make it easy for you to acquire new followers…
From My Biased Coin
Complexity of Distributed Systems, Market Crash Style
Apparently, the stock market crash of 5/6/10 was not, as originally thought, due to a "standard" human/computer error where someone meant to sell a million shared but instead entered billion. (Although, heck, that's an interesting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Atlas Category Management
More on TNS's Atlas Category simulation tool, Unique in its ability to predict the results of key merchandising decisions. I have discussed Atlas here a number of times. ' ... This report introduces Atlas, a model that accurately…
From Schneier on Security
Biometric Wallet
Cool idea, or dumb idea?
Its features include:
- Fingerprint access only
- Bluetooth enabled for notification alerts
From Wild WebMinkApache
The Apache Software Foundation’s radical and exceptional transparency provides a lesson all organisations need to learn. Read about it on Simon Says…