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
Organizing Your Business for Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: A favorite topic, when added to constructing innovation rich contexts. " ... Innovation is the process of linking an invention to satisfy a specific need in a business or social context. The people…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
An article published in Nature
From Schneier on Security
USB Drives and Wax Seals
Need some pre-industrial security for your USB drive? How about a wax seal? Neat, but I recommend combining it with encryption for even more security!
From Computational Complexity
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The ACM announced the 2012 G
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Employee Magazine
IQ by Intel is a Flipboard like design, with bright graphics, using social measures to promote the Intel brand to younger demographics. More in Adage.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearing Health Devices
In Technology Review: On wearing small health devices. Small monitors have been around for a long time. The challenge may be how to deal with the data and the analytics needed to provide value.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute
Byron Sharp, professor at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, University of South Australia, has been a long term correspondent. My former enterprise is a major sponsor. So I continue to get his mailings. Note in particular his…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recapping Last Week
The following is a special contribution to this blog from Mario Berg
From Schneier on Security
Security Vulnerabilities in Airport Full-Body Scanners
According to a report from the DHS Office of Inspector General:
Federal investigators "identified vulnerabilities in the screening process" at domestic airports using so-called "full body scanners," according to a classified…From The Eponymous Pickle
International Institute for Analytics
Bill Franks has a number of interesting posts at the International Institute for Analytics blog. Like a recent post on in-memory analytics. " ... At IIA, we study how leading enterprises use analytics to dominate their industries…
From My Biased Coin
Grading, Correlation vs. Causation
Final grades are finally in, thank goodnees. With 100+ students, even entering the grades is non-trivial. Once again, freshman in my undergraduate Algorithms and Data Structures class receive A's at a substantially higher rate…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF, NIH Holding Second Big Data Webinar May 21st
For those who missed last Tuesday’s webinar about the
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Please Don
I am a late convert to the idea of computer science education for everyone. Or pretty close to everyone. A lot of people still don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hadoop Education for Big Data Analytics
A good view of the need for specialized training and experience for the use of the package Hadoop for Big data problems. I recently saw an overview of this approach, and I agree. Think of Hadoop as a data preparation and batch…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Mini-Course 2012: Another Successful Year
Last week marked the fifth year I've run my mini-course, Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls! This was a special year because of our study, and because it was my first taste of working full time away from the baby. While…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Digital Marketing Solutions
In AdAge: it is becoming clear that the problem is becoming too big. And Agencies themselves are looking to build out their own solutions. It is clear though that they will need help to do this. Accenture is a recent example…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Revolutionizing Trade Strategy: Science and Shopper
I recently happened on an article by DemandTec on trade strategy. Five ways to revolutionize your trade strategy. A well put set of suggestions that emphasize the analytical aspects of addressing strategy. Notable in particular…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE Seeking
As part of its recently announced SunShot Initiative — “a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy cost competitive with other forms of energy by the end of the decade” — the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office…
From Schneier on Security
U.S. Exports Terrorism Fears
To New Zealand:
United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has warned the New Zealand Government about the latest terrorist threat known as "body bombers."[...]
"Do we have specific credible evidence of…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Student Implemented SharePoint Solutions
