Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2009
From The Eponymous Pickle
American Time Use Visualization
From Junk Charts ... a good example of visualization. Pointing to the NYT's visualization of US consumers use of time. ' ... (Apparently, thousands of people recalled what they did every minute of an average day.) The amount…
From BLOG@CACM
As I Once Thunk
Is it time to capture the magic that attracted us into computer science in an essential course called Computing?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I hardly ever blog about my ongoing research
When I started my blog in 2004, my goal was to blog about my research. It never happened. You may think that I am afraid a reader could steal my ideas, or that I might worry about looking silly. But I have no such fear. However…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deeping in Deep Sea Fault Zones
Scientists Drill a Mile Into Active Deep Sea Fault Zone. Not for oil, but for science. Trying to understand subduction zones and earthquakes. Reminds me of project Mohole, which I followed with fascination. Another pundit…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interview with Eric von Hippel
The Open-Minded Professor - An Interview with Eric von Hippel, MIT
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID Journal
Have now followed the commercial application of RFID tagging for years. I am particularly interested in the analytics used to leverage data from RFID sensors. We connected with work at MIT and U of Arkansas that determinedThe…