Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2014
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Do Your Students Still Surprise You?
As my year concluded I was reflecting on the students, my courses, and the changes I need to make for next year. I was thinking about what students surprised me and which I thought could have done more. That led to me thinking…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Remembering Ann Yasuhara
Ann will be missed Ann Yasuhara was a mathematician and a complexity theorist, who passed away this June 11th. She lived over half of her 82 years in Princeton, and was a member of the faculty of computer science at Rutgers since…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Remembering Ann Yasuhara
Ann will be missed Ann Yasuhara was a mathematician and a complexity theorist, who passed away this June 11th. She lived over half of her 82 years in Princeton, and was a member of the faculty of computer science at Rutgers since…
From Schneier on Security
How Traffic Shaping Can Help the NSA Evade Legal Oversight
New research paper on how the NSA can evade legal prohibitions against collecting Internet data and metadata on Americans by forcing domestic traffic to leave and return to the US. The general technique is called "traffic shaping…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Seeks Members for Cloud Computing Working Groups
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is looking for individuals from industry, government, and academia to participate in three new cloud computing public working groups: (1)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Scene Modeling
In the CACM: This tool looks very similar to work we did with a large technology company around 2000. How do you take normally flat surveillance footage from multiple cameras and turn it into a 3D model of a scene? We were…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Age of Context: Sensors, Data and Privacy
Starting to read, very good so far, more coverage later.Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy Paperbackby Robert Scoble and Shel Israel: " ... They report what they have learned from interviewing more…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Don't Panic
I originally wrote this (for the CSTA blog) near the start of the last school year. I have to say though that as this year ends and I am fired up about preparing for the next year is seems relevant to me now.The cover of the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Staples and the Future Home
In ReadwriteWeb: Staples not an expected participant in the idea, but have been in the past been impressed by their forward orientation. Have not examined yet in any depth. " ... Staples wants to appeal to both mainstream…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Obvious Patents
Evan Schuman on patenting the obvious. He says the Supreme Court did not go far enough, but this gives judges the opportunity to do the right thing.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC and CRA Add New Members
Today, July 1, new talents were added to the ranks of both the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council and the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors. The CCC welcomes five new members to its Council and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
FleetRisk Advisors for Predictive Risk
At the recent Big Data and Analytics Summit I attended a talk and had a chat with Vikas Jain of FleetRisk Advisors. I had worked some similar projects with several enterprises, so I knew the problem. Using predictive analytics…