Communications of the ACM
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June 2010
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Centric Analytics Advances
In AdAge:' ...A Prescription for Resuscitating Growth for CPG CompaniesAdvances in Data, Insights, Analytics and Technology Enable a Personalized Shopper-Marketing Experienceby Robert Holston ... ' Good article with some prescriptive…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mypaint: Drawing With No Talent
A newly discovered drawing system called Mypaint for freehand images, does not make you a graphics artist, but a nice start. Via Downloadsquad.
From Schneier on Security
Bletchley Park Archives to Go Online
This is good:
Simon Greenish, chief executive officer of the Bletchley Park Trust, said the plan was for the centre's entire archive to be digitised.[...]
He said since the archive is so big nobody knows exactly what each…From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone in Trouble?
Is the IPhone in trouble because its business model is not open enough? You can build some clever things that win at first, but will they survive when challenged by more adaptive solutions?
From My Biased Coin
STOC 2010, and Some Business Meeting Notes
STOC 2010 appears to be running quite smoothly. I've been popping in and out -- the problem with being a local is that I actually have to go home at reasonable times (and stop by the office quickly). While nominally (thanks…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Auctioning Lincoln History
This blog has a number of times covered auction technologies. This resulted from a number of studies of auction processes inside the enterprise. Recently I have had some conversations with the impressive local Cowan's Auctions…
From BLOG@CACM
Laptops in the Classroom
Thoughts about using laptops in higher education classes, relating to a recent journal article about what students actually do with their laptops in class while pretending to study.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digitizing the First Moment of Truth
Former P&Ger Randall Beard in his Marketing with Impact Blog about digitization of the first-moment-of-truth, the interaction of shopper and store at the shelf. Also known as merchandising. The topic is a frequent one in this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Initiatives via Google and Bing
An intriguing race between major search engine providers, using health data:Bing, Google Offering Dueling
From Putting People First
Keynotes from The Web and Beyond
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-07
Top 10 Questions To Ask At The Microsoft TechEd/STB Analyst Summit Here's a view I'd not considered: "Just less than 3 years ago, Microsoft was still perceived as part of the
From Schneier on Security
How to Spot a CIA Officer
How to spot a CIA officer, at least in the mid 1970s.
The reason the CIA office was located in the embassy -- as it is in most of the other countries in the world -- is that by presidential order the State Department is responsible…From Putting People First
Hooked on gadgets, and paying a mental price
From Putting People First
On user researchers and behavioural economics
UX Matters has again published a couple of great articles: So, you want to do user research: characteristics of great researchers By Demetrius Madrigal and Bryan McClain (Metric Lab) “One of the best things about user research…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 June 2010
I tried to take most of last week off. Well I guess I actually did officially take most of the week off but somehow I spent more time than I should have on email and Twitter. Perhaps I have a problem. :-) But I didn
From Wild WebMink
? BCS Faces No-Confidence Vote Crisis
I just received notice of an Emergency General Meeting at the British Computer Society – some members think the current leadership want to
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ready for Mobile Video Chat?
How much does the ready and easy availability of video chat add to the value of business communications? Some rumors about that this will be the new ingredient in the IPhone hardware and operating system. A Computerworld debate…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Authentic Curriculum; Authentic Assessment
As I was browsing the CSTA Blog recently, I was intrigued by Joanna Goode's post on Assessment in Computer Science. Since assessment is an integral part of my job at the state level, I have long been a proponent of authentic…
From My Biased Coin
Conference Attendance : How to Keep it Strong?
In honor of the STOC business meeting coming up shortly: STOC, CCC, and EC are all apparently poised to have very strong attendance this year -- from what I understand, greatly improving over previous years. Why?I suggest two…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of the Replicators
We met MIT's Neil Gershenfeld and read his book: When Things Start to Think. Much enjoyed, but I did wonder about how hard it would be to implement what he was suggesting. Remote manufacturing perhaps, but machine replication…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reporting vs Blogging
Walter Riker writes about Reporting vs Blogging in his Ease of Blogging blog. Walter's blog is a great resource in this space, and he is also a first rate teacher if you are new to starting a blog. We often talk about related…
From My Biased Coin
Announcement: Matt Welsh Tenured
I'm very, very pleased to announce that Matt Welsh's Harvard tenure case has been successful. There's a number of wonderful things I could say about Matt and his work, but I'll limit myself to two highlights. Matt is wellthe…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-06
MPEG LA – The Standard for Standards – Want to Form a Pool? To be clear, MPEG-LA is a parasite using standards bodies as its host, whether they want it or not. This page makes it clear that the parasite is looking for new hosts…
From BLOG@CACM
Research Summers
Research challenges us to pose new questions, choose exploratory avenues carefully, and be frugal and wise stewards of the financial trust invested in us.
From Apophenia
i can haz housesitting tool pls?
Dear enterprising developers of the world, I have a request: I travel a lot. I prefer staying in apartments to staying in hotels. But I hate imposing on friends and, frankly, crashing on couches isn’t as fun as it used to be.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony Lifelogging Glasses
Via Walter Riker: Sony demonstrates lifelogging glasses. Have been looking at eyetracking approaches lately. In the Enterprise we examined related methods for delivering key knowledge to people as they performed support requiring…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Publishing
From IEEE Inteligent Systems: The Semantic Web: From Proteins to Fairytales: Directions in Semantic PublishingAnita de WaardIf computers are to help us process mountains of scientific information, we must build platforms for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus on the Objectives of Business Intelligence
Richard Herschel looks at the various definitions of BI and tries to make sense of how it relates to the objectives we should be seeking. Well done. He proposes a general definition: ' ... Business intelligence is the application…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Links as a Distraction
A discussion of whether including links in writing is a good idea. Have always thought the very purpose of being on the web is to include links to supporting material. But does it distract you from the point being made?
From My Biased Coin
SIGCOMM Travel Grants
I was asked by the SIGCOMM program chairs to remind everyone that there are travel grants available, especially for students, postdocs, and junior faculty. Since the conference is far away this year (India), they've tried to…