Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2011
From The Eponymous Pickle
CrowdScanner
Brought to my attention for a potential client:The CrowdScanner: Turning networking into people discovery:a fun, serendipitous, interactive experience.See also their blog.
From My Biased Coin
2012 PCs
In an effort to return to normalcy, I find myself agreeing to serve on PCs again this year. NSDI 2012 call for papers is up. Dina Katabi and Steve Gribble went with the old "The PC meeting will be in Boston" ploy -- very clever…
From Computational Complexity
New Complexity Vidcasts
The newly renamed Computational Complexity Channel features two new vidcasts Bill and I hosted last Thursday from San Jose.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Platform Cost of Ownership
Interesting charts. Though I think there are a number of indirect costs as well. Serves as a good starting point. From the Tableau blog, and they fare well on ease of use and development.
From Wild WebMink
British BBQ
Ever wondered why barbecues aren’t the staple of summer life for the British that they are for Californians? It’s because any time you try to plan one (like we have today, with a decent number of guests), the weather does this…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Sock Monkey and the CSTA Chapter Liaison
While in Atlanta for an AP Computer Science meeting, Sock Monkey had a chance to meet Fran Trees, CSTA's Chapter Liaison. Fran helps volunteers through the chapter application and formation process. Thanks to Fran, CSTA's list…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
US Ignite & GigU Workshops:
I’m just back from a great workshop on
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson as Physicians Assistant
IBM's Jeopardy expert Watson moves forward and is now working as a physicians assistant. Medical diagnosis was an early application of artificial intelligence.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
There’s a great
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-11
Statement on OpenOffice.org's move to Apache
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evernote Creates a Peeking Self Test App
A Clever idea. The Evernote note-taking system, which I use, has created a free app which uses the smart cover of the iPad to let you test yourself on information in Evernote. It is called Peek. It depends on the smart cover,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Database Management Systems
The following excellent Forrester technical report on agile BI methods: The Dawning of the Age of BI DBMS, by Boris Evelson.For Business Process Professionals May 27, 2011Does an excellent job at looking at a number of many…
From The Eponymous Pickle
People Widget
Google Gmail People widget . Gives you background information about people you are interacting with. It's always good to have relevant context when you are communicating. Being rolled out over the next few weeks. I have many…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon
From Michael Nielsen
Quantum computing for the determined
I’ve posted to YouTube a series of 22 short videos giving an introduction to quantum computing. Here’s the first video: Below I list the remaining 21 videos, which cover subjects including the basic model of quantum computing…
From Schneier on Security
Two Good Rants
Patrick Gray on why we secretly love LulzSec, and Robert Cringely on why we openly hate RSA.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Institute for Mobile Markets Research
Just introduced to immr, the Institute for Mobile Markets Research. See their site for more: " .... immr is a research and consulting firm providing research and advisory services to leading companies in mobile, technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial Micro Expression Decoder
Swiss startup rolls out this effort. Another example of determining true reactions of consumers in context. Experiments have shown these methods useful when allied with others.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
IBM Researchers Create High-Speed Graphene Circuits
From a story published on The New York Times‘ website late yesterday: IBM researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications, from…
From Computational Complexity
Talks I Missed
The Complexity conference comes to a close today and I head back to Chicago. I tend to go to few talks, preferring hallway conversations, but occasionally I hear about a few great talks that in retrospect I wish I attended. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Tries Facebook Commerce
Another push forward for Facebook, and Procter gives an indication that Facebook can be a serious place for business. Includes 'shop' and 'shop now' buttons to provide new direct channels.In Adage: P&G Tries Facebook Commerce…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-06-10
Music and film industries split over pirates My own conversations of late suggest that wiser minds (or rather, minds that can make the reptile see the difference between food and fear) are starting to prevail in the various publishing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Akamai Chief Scientist Talks Theory
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been
From Schneier on Security
New Airport Scanning Technology
Iscon's patented, thermo-conductive technology combines infrared (IR) and heat transfer, for high-resolution imaging without using any radiation. The core of this is state of the art imaging which detects and processes…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is Digital Literacy? And is it enough?
Someone on twitter sent out a link to an article/video from the BBC called Are children becoming 'digitally illiterate'? that got me thinking. What does it mean to be digitally literate? Are our children digitally literate or…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qwiki
Took a quick look at the new NYT supported iPad app magazine Qwiki. An overview. A simple location based magazine designed for easy consumption on the iPad. Very short articles are read to you with good, but not always great…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Practices for Mobile Business Intelligence
Good piece in the Tableau blog. I would like some more whys rather than just best practices. Still this is a nice start to think about the watch outs. I am just exploring a BI application on an iPad that works fine for…
From Schneier on Security
Spam as a Business
Interesting research: Kirill Levchenko, et al. (2010), "Click Trajectories -- End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2011, Oakland, California, 24 May 2011.
Abstract: Spam-based…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
US Ignite & GigU Plenaries Webcast Today & Tomorrow
The NSF’s CISE Directorate and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are co-sponsoring a pair of workshops on US Ignite and GigU — initiatives we’ve covered in this space before — at Case Western Reserve…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hearst Founds an App Lab
In Mashable: " ... Hearst unveiled its fabled App Lab to members of the press Thursday. The lab is a plush, windowless, gadget-filled room designed to serve as a