Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2010
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-06
Woot calls out Associated Press for plagiarism Lovely Woot piece today, pointing out that if Woot quoted AP the way AP quoted Woot, they would demand payment. AP's position is ridiculous becuase it assumes AP is in some way a…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Five Most Important Algorithms?
Bernhard Koutschan posted a compilation of the most important algorithms. The goal is to determine the 5 most important algorithms. Out of his list, I would select the following five algorithms: Binary search is the first non…
From Schneier on Security
Research Report on Cyberattack Capabilities
From the National Academies in 2009: Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities. It's 390 pages.
From BLOG@CACM
Interface Design For New Mothers
Why is there so little research into interface design for new mothers? Interface designers—hear my cry! Here are some pointers for designing interfaces for mothers and babies.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Provide input to the PCAST review of the NITRD program!
Congress mandates periodic assessments of the federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program — the program under which 14 federal agencies coordinate their investments in order to maintain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accelerating Artificial Intelligence
A redesigned Kurzweil AI site is up, and also an associated blog. We know Ray Kurzweil for his work on intelligence and singularity. Worth watching for tracking the edges of possibility in artificial intelligence. Recently aAlice…
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Will Pay for IPhone Ads
AT&T's switch from unlimited data to a tiered data payment program means that you may start paying for seeing complex ads on your IPhone. It will make sense to make sure that you are connected to Wifi before you indulge in ad…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Old Light
From the BBC, a stunning picture of ancient cosmic light. Microwave radiation on to the infrared. Gathering data and assembling it into a visualization. A bit beyond the normal topics of this blog, but astrophysics is my training…
From Computational Complexity
Jobs- who ended up where? You tell us!
Within CS theory who ended up at what jobs? Neither Lance nor I knows this. But YOU do--- collectively! So, I ask you, the readers, to leave comments about who ended up where. Please include name, where they came from, where …
From Schneier on Security
Tracking Location Based on Water Isotope Ratios
...water molecules differ slightly in their isotope ratios depending on the minerals at their source. ...researchers found that water samples from 33 cities across the United State could be reliably traced back
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Making Institute Launched
The move to non conscious elements of decision making as opposed to rational processes is interesting and getting more common. Worth following. : Draftfcb opens Institute of Decision Makingfrom Research - Latest newsUS
From The Eponymous Pickle
TagWhat
In ReadWriteWeb, just examined: ' ... Tagwhat, an augmented reality creation and distribution system, publicly launched this week bringing the world of augmented reality into the realm of Web 2.0. While other augmented realtiy…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-05
Groklaw – Open Core and OSI Pamela picks up both my article and Mark's and asks the obvious question. For the record, Mark is wrong to assert that I think only copyleft licenses are proper open source licenses. As for the "what…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links July 5 2010
Did you have a good Fourth of July weekend? technically a holiday for me today as the real day come on the Sunday. I understand it was a bit of a holiday in Norway as well
From My Biased Coin
(n)On Vacation
Despite appearance, the blog hasn't yet disappeared. I was on family vacation somewhere tropical. Even though I was on vacation, it didn't always feel like vacation. With a consulting engagement that required a full-day phone…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reflecting on Business Independence
David Sibbet reflects on his own business independence and outlines the excellent work that he does. We used his consulting for years and it always inspired me to think visually about the process. Thanks David! I see he now has…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Web Book
Algorithms of the Intelligent Web, by Haralambos Marmanis and Dmitry Babenko. Now a year old, but a fairly good introduction that has given me cause to look at it a few times. The Amazon link has a 'look inside' feature, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
An interesting book download on Multimedia data mining and knowledge discovery.
From The Eponymous Pickle
EEG, Eye-tracking and Purchasing
Neuromarketing in the realm of virtual Shopping:Virtual shopping company Nimbus has added neuromarketing capabilities to its 3D virtual reality research tool.The firm said the virtual shopping system already contains eye-tracking…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-04
Video Prison: Why Patents Might Threaten Free Online Video | NewAmerica.net Important explanation of why the patent thicket around video formats on the internet is a threat to both democracy and innovation. Worth your time to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Impersonation Problems with Check-in Services
Evan Schuman posts on security problems for check-in servces like FourSquare."Check-In Services Glitches Allow Customer ImpersonationJune 17th, 2010The increasingly popular check-in services, where users let friends know where…
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Store Marketing Expo
Steve Frenda sends this along, looks like lots of interesting views of technology and directions of change. Will try to make it this year. See also Steve's in-store marketing blog." ... The Shopper Marketing Expo brochure is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ownership Issues Behind Social Networks
On the legal issues behind social networking. I have thought about this when I look at the list in my Linkedin network. Who owns these when I collected many through relationships at a former employer? Who owns our networks? Expect…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Benefits
Wal-mart Benefits local Farmers and Suppliers.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
One of the Greatest Perks of Teaching
I have always thought that one of the greatest perks of teaching is being able to revise and start over again. This seems to energize me and give me a new outlook on my students and my curriculum topics. I don't think I have …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Obama highlights computer science
In his major address on immigration policy on July 1, President Barack Obama noted: “And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Robots
Two of them; one was blogged about last year.
From Putting People First
More videos from The Web And Beyond
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Reco Engine
ReadwriteWeb posts about the newly released Facebook recommendation engine. Have not looked at it yet. I have never had good experience with reco engines. They either suggest things I know already or don't provide the level of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality You Can Touch
From CACM: Continuing developments in the science of haptics: Virtual Reality You Can Reach Out and TouchA team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported real objects through cyberspace, touched things in virtual reality…