Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2009
From BLOG@CACM
Framing the Right Problem For Water Fowl
U.S. Geological Survey scientists describe their work, outlining complexity.
From BLOG@CACM
HPC: Making a Small Fortune
There is an old joke in the high-performance computing community that begins with a question, “How do you make a small fortune in high-performance computing?” There are several variations on the joke, but they all end with the…
From Putting People First
Efficiency or ambient intimacy?
The latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine is all about a new era of human interaction that is marked by perpetual conversations and perpetual info drip-feed, as enabled by the umbilical of the mobile. Two new contributions…
From Putting People First
Physically digital
Mac Funamizu explores on Johnny Holland what digital devices with physically changing displays might look like and how their interface language might be conceived: “We all know how great a touch screen is
From Putting People First
How designers can influence behavior
Robert Fabricant wrote about the role of the designer in behavioural change and describes three new design strategies: persuasion design, catalyst design and performance design. “Instead of aspiring to influence user behavior…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Leadership Cohort Update from Washington (State)
As a member of the CSTA Leadership cohort, I have had an exciting year in Washington. A group of very dedicated educators and business members have been working since January 2009 in the formation of a chapter of the Computer…
From BLOG@CACM
Scientists Convene at First Computational Sustainability Meeting
Keynote Address at the First Computational Sustainability Meeting by Carla Gomes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Relations 2.0 Examined
Good detailed article in PR 2.0 by Brian Solis: The State of PR, Marketing, and Communications: You are the Future. ' ... Contrary to popular belief, Social Media isn
From Apophenia
Gender Gap in Perception of Computer Science
"New Image for Computing" recently released a report in their first wave to understand the image of computing among youth. Funded by WGBH and ACM, this report examines both race/ethnicity and sex-based differences in perceptions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart on Marketing
In AdAge: Wal-Mart on their increasingly sophisticated methods of marketing and associated research. Also an increasingly strong approach to merchandising in their stores.
From Wild WebMink
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From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACMHill Tech Happenings, Week of June 8
June 10
Hearing: The Research and Science Education subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on research and development in cybersecurity. 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn Building
From BLOG@CACMThe Future of Applications?
With the Web delivering richer content to our desktops, why don't today's applications let us seamlessly create that content?
From The Eponymous PickleThe Evolution of Private Label
Q&A: Nielsen Industry Insight Director Details Evolution of Private Label, National Brands
' ... Nielsen Co. director of industry insights Tom Pirovano noted that, after many years, it
From The Eponymous PickleDemise of the University
Don Tapscott in the Edge on the demise of the University. Universities like MIT are posting their coursework online. Libraries are online. Wikis allow knowledge to be gathered and tailored in new ways. I don't think the demise…
From Wild WebMinklinks for 2009-06-07
Currently reading the copy of The Geek Atlas that O'Reilly kindly sent me and I'm enjoying it. It covers places a geek would …
From BLOG@CACMWindmills in the Water
A call to the computer science community for what a research agenda might look like for the role of information and communications technologies in energy, the environment, climate science, and more broadly, sustainability.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
On March 25th, the Computing Community Consortium organized a spectacular daylong symposium at the Library of Congress:
From The Eponymous PickleMirror Neurons and the Social Web
Matt Bamford-Bowes muses about Mirror Neurons and the Social Web. ' I think social web activity is one which is a reflection of Mirror Neurons at work ... ' . Interesting thought.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACMPolicy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - May 2008 (Vol. 52, No. 5)
Here are some items in the May issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. Remember, much of the material in CACM is considered premium content, and what may be free content during the month of the issue might…
From The Noisy ChannelThose Who Give Twitter *Get* Twitter
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb wrote a post arguing that the people working at Twitter aren’t using the service the way its power users do, and that this bodes ill for Twitter. His main arguments:
Twitter’s employees don’t…
From Putting People FirstThe limits of user-generated contents, as demonstrated by a North-Korean case
About four weeks ago, I wrote a post denouncing Current TV for their hypocrisy: encouraging user-generated content when it is not threatening, but actively censoring when it involves their very well-being (i.e. the fate of two…
From Wild WebMinklinks for 2009-06-06
After 18 years, the world's best developer conference closes the shutters after seeing a huge fall in registrations. I have a decade of the very best memories…
From BLOG@CACME-Government in Latin America
According to wikipedia: e-Government is a diffused neologism used to refer to the use of information and communication technology to provide and improve government services, transactions and interactions with citizens, businesses…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACMCFP Panel on Voting and the Internet
Yesterday, during the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), USACM coordinated a panel to speak on voting and using the internet. It was chaired by Ed Felten of Princeton, who is also Vice-Chair of USACM. The panelists…
From Wild WebMinkOASIS Protects Open Source Developers From Software Patents
Some of you may remember a fuss that was made a few years ago by some open source people over the copyright and patent policy used by OASIS, the computer protocols standards body1. OASIS seems to have taken it to heart, becuase…
From The Noisy ChannelEnabling Exploration Through Text Analytics
As promised, here are my slides from the recently held Text Analytics Summit. Feel free to download them from SlideShare–some of the animation may not come through in this version (though I try to use such animation sparingly)…
From The Eponymous PickleMobile Coupons at the Dairy Queen
Interesting test which uses stick-on RFID tags at Dairy Queen, by Evan Schuman in Storefrontbacktalk, read the whole thing for other examples of the approach: ' ... For the last two weeks, consumers walking into the Dairy Queen…
From The Eponymous PickleGoogle Wave Talk
Jerry Michalski files a podcast on his recent conference call on Google Wave.. The Google Wave site also has an introduction. ' ... Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this.…
From Putting People FirstThe Economist on sensors, mapping and mobiles
The Economist this week comes with a new edition of its 24-page Technology Quarterly supplement, which contains four articles that are related to the theme of this blog: Taken your medicine? Health care: Mobile phones provide…