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 The Eponymous Pickle
Tableau Research Builds New UX for Data
Always looking for better user interfaces to make the curation and utilization of data more obvious to both the analyst and the decision maker, who need to understand what they have, or may be missing, as it relates to realGigaOM…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality for Smart Watches
From press release today: Implies the integration of a camera in a Smart watch and fast advanced image recognition. " .... , Metaio, today announced the first ever object recognition solution for smart watches. The technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Live, Free Microsoft Research Summit
I plan to tune in for a part of this:Microsoft Research Faculty Summit to Be Streamed Live July 14Join us for a broadcast of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit streamed live from Redmond, Washington on Monday, July 14, from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roles in the Newly Empowered Retail Democracy
In Retailwire: Short piece that takes the idea beyond the typical view of just buying product. The new consumer wants to be a: - Supply chain manager: deciding where to buy, ship, pick up and return orders. - Merchandise-…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Assistant in the Power of Your Hand
Today we completely expect intelligence to be in the palm of our hands. We can get it, but the means at hand now is repeated search. There have been a number of attempts, interesting but hardly complete. I have been reading …
From Schneier on Security
These Pickpocket Secrets Will Make You Cry
Pickpocket tricks explained by neuroscience. So while sleight of hand helps, it's as much about capturing all of somebody's attention with other movements. Street pickpockets also use this effect to their advantage by manufacturing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SmartPhones are Listening
In the WSJ Digits: It is often forgotten that phones can listen in ways other than during the usual call. A good piece that addresses this sensory mode. " ... From chainsaws whirring in rainforests to snoring that sounds like…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Supreme Court Recognizes Technology Matters
Guest blog post written by Mark Rasch, U.S. Public Policy Council member The Supreme Court has always had to consider the impact of new technologies on both individuals’ expectations of privacy and ultimately on their rights…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
True success is more than winning a zero-sum game
Fiction writers used to have to submit their manuscripts to 6 or 7 big corporations. Only these corporations could seriously publish a book. Room on library stacks has always been scarce. Only a tiny number of authors could ever…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Supreme Court Tells Police to “Get a Warrant” for Cellphone Searches
The U.S. Supreme Court recently unanimously ruled that law enforcement need to obtain a warrant to search a cellphone seized incident to an arrest. The decision addressed two separate warrantless cellphone search cases before…
From BLOG@CACM
Python Is Now the Most Popular Introductory Teaching Language at Top U.S. Universities
Eight of the top 10 CS departments in the U.S., and ~70% of the top 40, teach Python in introductory courses.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Program Webinar
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) invites you to attend a webinar to learn more about its recently released solicitation, Computer and Information Science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Explained and Now Socialized
An Engadget view of the US Pentagon's DARPA. With which I have had some connections. As expected it's mostly about the mad science notions. Which gets lots of interest. But no, its mostly about things that are fairly mundane…
From Schneier on Security
The Simple Trick that Will Keep You Secure from Government Spies
Last week, the German government arrested someone and charged him with spying for the US. Buried in one of the stories was a little bit of tradecraft. The US game him an encryption program embedded in a -- presumably common -…
From CERIAS Blog
Why We Don’t Have Secure Systems Yet, Introduction
Over the past couple of months I’ve been giving an evolving talk on why we don’t yet have secure systems, despite over 50 years of work in the field. I first gave this at an NSF futures workshop, and will give it a few more times…
From CERIAS Blog
Why We Don’t Have Secure Systems Yet, Introduction
Over the past couple of months I’ve been giving an evolving talk on why we don’t yet have secure systems, despite over 50 years of work in the field. I first gave this at an NSF futures workshop, and will give it a few more times…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
FCC Workshop on Accessible Social Media on July 17
The FCC’s Accessibility and Innovation Initiative will host an all-day workshop on “Accessing Social Media,” on Thursday, July 17, 2014, from 9 am to 4 PM. The workshop will foster discussion on how to make social media apps,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Accelerator Chooses Choremonster
The ChoreMonster system, founded by a former colleague, has been mentioned here a number of times. Now they have been chosen by the Disney Accelerator. The premise: " ... What if your kids begged you to do their chores?…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Better Shared Marketing Decision Methods
In the HBR Blogs:" ... Marketing increasingly must work across boundaries with other functions such as IT, sales, and finance to execute shared decisions. But it is at these seams that communication most often breaks down and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Loyalty Apps
Retailwire: 3D Loyalty Apps." ... Walgreens has partnered with its loyalty-app partner, Aisle411, to test Google's virtual indoor 3-D mapping technology, Project Tango. The combined technologies enable shoppers to search andSince…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson and Health Process Visualization Using Sankey Diagrams
On the topic of Watson + Visualization, Watson paths is a good example. A research project. " WatsonPaths is a new cognitive computing project that enables more natural interaction between physicians, data and electronic medical…
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Compressing the Local Lemma
Not only did Moser give a near optimal construction, but he did so in my favorite STOC talk of the decade.
From Schneier on Security
NSA Employee Flees to Hong Kong -- You Won't Believe What Happens Next
The latest story from the Snowden documents analyzes a large cache of intercepted conversations -- actual operational data -- and concludes that 90% of the individuals eavesdropped on were not the targets of the surveillance.…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 7 July 2014
Did you notice that there wasn’t an interesting links post last week? I’ve been on a real vacation with five days of Walt Disney World after ISTE. I spent a lot less time on the Internet than usual. Last week’s posts after ISTE…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotional Marketing Headline Analyzer
You plug in your blog headline and it calculates its value in a given context. Have not tried it as yet. Click here." .... This free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score.Your…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing the Data we Have
Video from the US Office of Personnel management (OPM). Leveraging the Data We Have: Utilizing Data Visualization Analytics The general point here is good, we often pay most attention to new data, but there is lots of mining…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holographs Brings Back Performers
In the CACM: Technical, but very readable piece on the history and use of the holographic illusion. Remember seeing these live in Disney World a long time ago, their improvement has been considerable, bringing back the dead,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implications of the Right to be Forgotten
In Businessweek: " .... Since agreeing to comply with the European Court of Justice’s decision that people have the right to be forgotten, Google (GOOG) has received about 50,000 requests for Web pages to be removed from European…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Military Glasses
In Defense One, an example of 'military glasses'. How are these different from Google Glass? First with more of an emphasis on usable, task oriented augmented reality." ... The glasses, called simply the X6, are from San Francisco…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Meaning of the Rise of in-Car Cameras
Its hard to understand all the implications of connected vehicles. The camera is a particularly interesting case because it is a very broad kind of sensor, so it is difficult to understand what the inclusion of multiple andIn…