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 Putting People First
Intel launches new interaction and experience research division
At the Intel Labs’ annual Research at Intel media event, Intel Corporation Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner announced a new research division, called Interaction and Experience Research (IXR), that is focused on defining…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holistic Framework for Knowledge Management
An interesting paper recently discovered. Often an issue for the enterprise.-
From Putting People First
Smart meters not smart enough for consumers
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy on Tuesday released results of a survey finding that energy use feedback tools are more important than smart meters in reducing consumers’ energy use. Analyzing 57 residential…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Team USA Heads to Poland to Compete in the Imagine Cup
Well the USA may be out of the World Cup but that
From Schneier on Security
Secret Stash
Hiding objects in everyday objects.
From Computational Complexity
Theory Happenings
FOCS accepts, abstracts and PDFs. The conference itself will be held October 23-26 in Las Vegas. There is a proposed TCS version of Math Overflow, a Q&A site to let the crowd help your research. The site needs your commitments…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Reflection on ISTE 2010
Well I
From Putting People First
Glen Cove conference on strategic design and public policy
Ever keen to expand the boundaries of their practices, design professionals have been moving in the direction of public policy for some years, writes Lucy Kimbell (blog). But what designers, or multi-disciplinary teams using
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Career Outlook for CS Students
The CACM web site has an interesting interview with Joel Adams (Joel Adams Discusses the Career Outlook for CS Students) Joel Adams
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wharton Studies World Cup Access
Wharton WIMI studies how fans access the World Cup via ESPN: " ... ESPN, which is televising the World Cup, is using the soccer tournament as a living laboratory to test how people consume sports. Do they watch it on TV? Listen…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm, Mattel Push Augmented Reality
It makes sense for a toy manufacturer to look at this. it is well known that some smartphone game Apps are very big profit makers for well known toy companies. So why not embrace the rest of reality into your game? These developments…
From Schneier on Security
Vigilant Citizens: Then vs. Now
This is from Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself, published in 1950:
Of course, millions of us will go through our lives never seeing a spy or a saboteur going about his business. Thousands of us may, at one time or another…From The Eponymous Pickle
Temporal Analytics Engine
Wim Van de Velde points me the Recorded Future Site, which I had missed. What they call a temporal analytics engine. Not descriptive enough as a title. Just exploring. It has many possible applications, but having been involved…
From Schneier on Security
Cryptography Failure Story
By Russian spies:
Ricci said the steganographic program was activated by pressing control-alt-E and then typing in a 27-character password, which the FBI found written down on a piece of paper during one of its searches.
From Putting People First
Beyond findability
The Spring 2010 issue of the Journal of Information Architecture is now available. In one of the articles “Beyond Findability“, Luigi Spagnolo, Davide Bolchini, Paolo Paolini and Nicoletta Di Blas introduce Search-Enhanced Information…
From Computational Complexity
Is this solution cheating?
Consider the following problem:
A hole is drilled through the center of a sphere. The cylinder-with-caps is removed. The length of the removed cylinder (it also has caps on it which do not count for the length) is 6 inches…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-07-01
Project Harmony looks to improve contribution agreements I hope to be able to participate in this activity, if only to ensure that it does not become a validation for the practice of using "contributor agreements" by corporations…
From BLOG@CACM
2010 Edition of Campus Party Colombia
A quick look at this special event in Colombia at which people breathe, eat, and sweat technology.
From Putting People First
A Transumer Manifesto
From cars to designer clothes to children
From Putting People First
Kuniavsky designing read-write web-created things
This fast approaching era of desktop manufacturing via advanced MakerBots and other 3D printers is in part why ThingM co-founder Mike Kuniavsky runs an annual conference called Sketching in Hardware. The event aims to “bring…
From Putting People First
The cities we need
The Grattan Institute, an Australian independent public policy think-tank, has published a new report, entitled “The Cities We Need“, that aims to set an agenda for thinking about the future of Australia’s cities. It asks how…
From Putting People First
Why social experience is the future of online content
“For all of the attention on social networking, there are few social media experiences that match the fun of hanging out together with friends in person,” writes Jon Goldman, CEO of the multiuser content-sharing platform Qlipso…
From Putting People First
Design research at LIFT conference
At the beginning of May, frog design partnered with the Lift conference in Geneva to conduct design research on the conference itself to understand what was working well and not so well about the conference. The organisers wanted…
From Putting People First
The product of a healthy relationship
The relationship between researchers and product designers can be a rocky one. Paul Golden looks at how market research can make sure it promotes creative thinking rather than obstructs it. “When handled properly, [the initial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Acquires Woot
In a cool move Amazon has bought the geeky surplus store Woot. Will operate as an independent subsidiary. Although I have not been there for a while Woot was known for its cheeky, self-deprecating copy that was by itself a fun…