Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2013
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tiny Robots Solving Problems
One more piece on the use of AI driven robotics to swarm to difficult or dangerous spaces. I repeat, also that there is is the potential to link these with sensors to agent based abstract models.I want to see more about autonomy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mastering the Art of Self Promotion
In FastCompany: A favorite topic. What works. We had a number of sessions on this topic in the enterprise and they were always well attended. Should it be shameless? Or is it shameless like a fox?
From Schneier on Security
SIMON and SPECK: New NSA Encryption Algorithms
The NSA has published some new symmetric algorithms:
Abstract: In this paper we propose two families of block ciphers, SIMON and SPECK, each of which comes in a variety of widths and key sizes. While many lightweight block …From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 1 July 2013
I started a new series I am calling CS Educator Interviews last week. The first two interviews posted are with Kathleen Weaver and Garth Flint. Check them out when you have a minute. I hope to post about two of these a week over…