Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2012
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Centricity
We worked with Professor Peter Fader of Wharton in the enterprise. His book on Customer centricity essentials is now out in its second edition. " ... Despite what the tired old adage says, the customer is not always right…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charmin App Improved
Charmin App Updated: " ... Procter & Gamble brand Charmin has introduced the SitOrSquat: Restroom Finder application for mobile devices, which lets users rate public bathrooms. Charmin launched a similar application in 2008,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Data Breadth of the Supply Chain
Today I gave an invited talk "End-to-End Supply Chain: Innovation, Design and Development" at the University of Cincinnati. I emphasized the integration of Big Data methods and Analytical capabilities. From Marketing to the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solving a Data Science Problem
Vincent Granville on ways to solve a data science problem. An interesting case study that uses a number of common analytic methods. Well described: " .... Here we discuss four approaches to solve the following marketing problem…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS and Teradata
On SAS and Teradata joining forces. More appliances: " ... Over the years SAS has worked with many data warehousing vendors. In particular, in the recent past it has collaborated with a number of database vendors to support…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Databases
A recent piece by Mark Montgomery led me to Philip Howard in Bloor on Graph Databases. An introduction. Which led me to the WP article on the same. Obvious application of directed labeled graphs, which has a long history in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reviewing the Buying Brain
An interesting review of The Buying Brain. Very positive. Overdone I think, there are aspects of neuromarketing methods that although useful in conjunction with classical methods, remain unproven.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Google Releases Data Set for Research
From Google’s
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scalp Massager
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Python vs. Processing as a First Language
When I asked my social networks what they thought was the best language to learn to program with, most said Python. I've always heard great things about this as a first language, so I went along with it. But one person said…
From My Biased Coin
That Time of Year : Annual NSF Reports
I received my notice a few weeks back that it's time to fill out my annual grant reports for NSF.I'd like to complain about it; it's a pretty boring process, and their interface isn't that great.But, really, I can't complain…
From Wild WebMink
What Next After GPL and Apache?
My article on InfoWorld today looks at the arc of software licensing trends and predicts commercial open source will eventually swing back to the centre and favour MPLv2.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Funding Research Infrastructure for the CISE Community
At last week’s meeting of the Advisory Committee (AC) for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
From Schneier on Security
Kip Hawley Reviews <i>Liars and Outliers</i>
In his blog:
I think the most important security issues going forward center around identity and trust. Before knowing I would soon encounter Bruce again in the media, I bought and read his new book Liars & Outliers and it is…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Be What
Grace Hopper used to tell her audiences that if they ever used
From Wild WebMink
UK Open Consultation Update
The final round-table for the government’s Open Standards Consultation is now open for booking – consider attending as much is at stake for UK ICT procurement. Read more on ComputerWorldUK today.
From The Noisy Channel
Data Science at LinkedIn: My Team
Lots of people ask me what it’s like to be a data scientist at LinkedIn. The short answer: it’s awesome. Folks like Pete Skomoroch
From My Biased Coin
A Little Truly Offensive Bragging (On Behalf of Harvard CS)
So which US school was the only one in the top ten for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest this year?No, not MIT, Princeton, or Carnegie Mellon (tied for 18th), nor Stanford (good effort!, tied for 13th) - but…
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThreeJoy
Via David E Goldberg Who we worked with in the enterprise on genetic algorithm methods.ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. is a leadership coaching firm and change consultancy established to serve individual and organizational clients…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is in-Memory Analytics?
Bill Franks provides a good overview. Read the whole piece, well put. " There
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Localizing Stores
Wal-Mart is Localizing its stores with Facebook. I recall this general idea proposed during the early days of web sites being commonly available. Long before Facebook. A very good idea to promote local ties to stores. This…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tasting Jams and Dating Sites
Match making online. Head versus heart. A dated WSJ article which led me back to some of our matching work for many other purposes. But does it work for matching of products and needs? Or products and associated products…
From Schneier on Security
Cybersecurity at the Doctor's Office
I like this essay because it nicely illustrates the security mindset.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoD Announces Robotics Grants
Last fall, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for its Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), which “augments current university capabilities or develops new university…
From Computational Complexity
Meetings/Conferences/Workshops/Seminars- whats in a name?
In June 11-14 will be a new workshop: Algorithmic Frontiers. How many venues do we have for meetings? What the call themselves: Meetings (e.g., MATHFEST), Conferences (e.g., STOC), Workshops (Barriers), Seminars (e.g., Dagstuhl)…
From Putting People First
Researchers glean deep UI lessons from a haptic steering wheel
According to a new driving study, conducted by Professor SeungJun Kim at Carnegie Mellon
From The Eponymous Pickle
Texting Increases Truth
A study seems to show texting increase truthfulness. Less shading of the truth. I wonder if this is caused by the limitation of the size of the message? Less ability to shade the truth. Less time required, and thus the ability…
From Schneier on Security
<i>Rules for Radicals</i>
It was written in 1971, but this still seems like a cool book:
For an elementary illustration of tactics, take parts of your face as the point of reference; your eyes, your ears, and your nose. First the eyes: if you have organized…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
KDD Workshop on Sustainability Calling for Papers
The organizers for this year’s second KDD workshop on Data Mining Applications in Sustainability (SustKDD 2012)
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What should the High School CS curriculum look like?
I get asked questions like this a lot