Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2010
From Putting People First
The innovative use of mobile applications in East Africa
From Putting People First
Improving patient safety by user-driven design
From The Eponymous Pickle
Foursquare the Future
The location based location activity-game Foursquare has developed a base of both lovers of the concept and haters. I have tested it for some time now. This CW article gives a good overview of its progress and a number of businesses…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE
Please see the new NSF/CISE FY11 cross-cutting program, Smart Health and Wellbeing, which we announced on Friday, June 11: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10575/nsf10575.htm. We are looking for your great ideas for how advances…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tivo on Getting a Commercial Noticed
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of LED Lightbulbs
Good article from the VentureLab newsletter:Will LEDs Replace Your Standard House Lightbulb? Definitely MaybeNew solutions in the LED space are clearing the way for low-cost, high-efficiency lighting solutions ... '
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Taking on Healthcare: The Time is Now
The Computing Community Consortium recently prepared a white paper titled, “Information Technology Research Challenges for Healthcare: From Discovery to Delivery,” as a follow-on to the Discovery and Innovation in Health IT…
From My Biased Coin
Crimson Article on SEAS
This article from the Crimson on the state of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from a couple of weeks ago serves as a good primer for me on some of the many things I'll be dealing with as Area Dean.
From Putting People First
UX leadership
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Laundry Trends
Ad Age piece on the trends on laundry solutions around the world. An old interest of mine from research within the enterprise.
From Schneier on Security
Protecting Cars with The Club
From the Freakonomics blog:
At some point, the Club was mentioned. The professional thieves laughed and exchanged knowing glances. What we knew was that the Club is a hardened steel device that attaches to the steering wheel…From Computational Complexity
Whats your Game Mr. Bond- The sequel!
(I will post about CCC 2010 later in the week.)
The word Game is used in many different contexts within math and computer science. I list out all that a group of us at last years Dagstuhl thought of:
Duplicator-Spoiler…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Lack of steady trajectories and failure
A common advice given out to young researchers is to find a niche. (See Michael’s Branding Your Research). That is certainly good advice. Instead of being another young researcher, you can be the new guy working on topic X. But…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 14 June 2010
Is school done for the year where you are? Here in the northeast of the US there is another week or two to go. Teachers are finishing up the year, getting their grades done, graduation events are everywhere and I think many teachers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bad Spill Infographics
In Junk Charts: Oil Spills Bring out the Worst. A number of examples that just muddy up the data they are trying to deliver. I get the feeling that news organizations are trying to develop images that can be readily noticed for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Culture and Consumer Choices
Colleague Sammy Haroon posts on Culture and Consumer Choices..
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 14
June 15
Hearing:
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cyberspace as a national asset, with an emphasis on legislation. 3 p.m., 342 Dirksen Building
June 16
Hearing:
The House…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tomorrow, June 15, is GS1 MobileCom Day
Always informative value from GS1. Have worked with them for a number of years and reported on their activities here:Tomorrow (Tuesday 15th June) is GS1 MobileCom Day! Local conferences, workshops and demos are taking placehttp…
From Putting People First
Some CHI papers that we like
From Wild WebMink
? Political Costs Prevent Actual Savings
Proprietary technology is a waste of money, says Kroes The speech by Neelie Kroes last week in Brussels was very carefully constructed and avoided almost all mention of free and open source software. In the spirit of rewarding…
From Schneier on Security
Behavioral Profiling at Airports
There's a long article in Nature on the practice:
It remains unclear what the officers found anomalous about George's behaviour, and why he was detained. The TSA's parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has…From Wild WebMink
? Your Chance To Reform
The Open Source Initiative is ready for a refit, and it needs your help to make it happen.
From Putting People First
Engineering a brighter future
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Permanence of Social Data
How much should social network based strategies depend on data from the behavior of those sites? Evan Schuman writes about this in StoreFrontBacktalk. Most social sites have been around for a relatively short time and they are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Carr vs Pinker
In Slashdot: Another look at the disagreement between the two Harvard associated thinkers Steven Pinker and David Carr. Does the availability of the Internet hurt or help our thinking? And is this also an argument about neuroplasticity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Owns the Data Model?
This topic recently came up in a meeting/ From Information Management.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-06-13
The Onion Sports Introduction To World Cup Soccer Since the World Cup seems to be as inescapable as death and taxes, here's a vital guide to understanding its esoterica. (tags: Sport Humour Onion Football) Textile inspiration…
From Putting People First
Book: Screen Future
From Putting People First
William J. Mitchell (MIT) passed away
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsico Makes a Call for Innovation
In Consumer Goods Technology:" ... A new program welcomes outside innovation into the organization to push its marketing and communications expertise to new levels PepsiCo launched an innovation incubator program called PepsiCo10…