Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2011
From The Eponymous Pickle
Patient Navigators
And if needed, the patient circle can be choreographed by the patient navigator, something I am thinking about now.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Numerical Errors
In the WSJ Blog, the Numbers Guy: We increasingly depend on data of many kinds. What happens when it is simply wrong? It happens more often than you think. As the article suggests, there are many examples where spreadsheets…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Car Makers Test EEG Headrests
In Technology Review: The object will be to test sleepiness in drivers. More embedded sensors. Will other biosensors be far behind? " ... The brain-sensing hardware comes from NeuroSky, a company based in San Jose, California…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Forks
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Future Internet Architecture: Content-Centric Networking
Next month, a little more than a year after the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the Future Internet Architecture (FIA) program,
From The Eponymous Pickle
DemandTec Blog
A few posts ago I mentioned work that DemandTec was doing with Sam's Club. I just noticed that DemandTec as a blog of interest. Recent posts cover issues in promotion management. Have placed it in my feed here. Viewpoints…
From Schneier on Security
Looking Backward at Terrorism
Nice essay on the danger of too much security:
The great lie of the war on terror is not that we can sacrifice a little liberty for greater security. It is that fear can be eliminated, and that all we need to do to improve our…From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Gathering Mobile Data
FastCompany article on how Nielsen is gathering data about mobile: " ... Nielsen Company, the group that has tracked and reported consumer information on radio, television, and the web, has a new way of tracking what goes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Group Buying in the Grocery Store
Always interested in whats possible in the context of the grocery aisle. Now about Aisle50, group buying in the store. Is there also a gaming component to this? Looking further into the details: " ... founders Riley Scott…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready or Not
Well according to my Twitter feed a lot of schools in the US south are back to school. Teachers are reporting for duty and students are expected any day now. My post from 2007 called What Do You Do the First Day of Class is getting…
From BLOG@CACM
Game-Based Ideas Management in the Workplace
A brief discussion of ideas management software used by the U.K. government.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Sign Up
58,000 have signed up so far for the upcoming free Stanford AI course. All about it and the rush to learn about artificial intelligence. We worked with Stanford and Stanford alumni in the AI space.
From Schneier on Security
The Dilemma of Counterterrorism Policy
Any institution delegated with the task of preventing terrorism has a dilemma: they can either do their best to prevent terrorism, or they can do their best to make sure they're not blamed for any terrorist attacks. I've talked…
From Wild WebMink
HP Seems To Agree
Just a few hours after I posted my CWUK article, HP showed how much they agreed with my analysis by cancelling the TouchPad and putting WebOS on ice. Will they now follow the rest of my advice and open the platform up? I’ve updated…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Ready or Not–New School Year About To Start
Well according to my Twitter feed a lot of schools in the US south are back to school. Teachers are reporting for duty and students are expected any day now. My post from 2007 called What Do You Do the First Day of Class is getting…
From BLOG@CACM
Trip Report on the 2011 International Computing Education Research Workshop
Last week's ICER 2011 conference was a smashing success. We learned how students believe in a "Geek gene," where students work on their programs, how to make compilers more friendly, how demonstrations can lead students astray…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple Augmented Reality
A detailed view of how Apple appears to be looking at augmented reality using a map + compass approach. Based on Apple patents, so it is unclear how this might ultimately play in real systems. Also interesting discussion of…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
As part of a multi-year cognitive computing initiative
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hanging Out in Google+ For Business
An interesting example of how food innovators are using Google+ to interact with consumers. My first impression was that this might a useful way to link researchers and groups of consumers. I recall it used to be quite a bit…
From Schneier on Security
Steven Pinker on Terrorism
It's almost time for a deluge of "Ten Years After 9/11" essays. Here's Steven Pinker:
The discrepancy between the panic generated by terrorism and the deaths generated by terrorism is no accident. Panic is the whole point[…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Launches Sustainability Research Networks Competition
Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF)
From Computational Complexity
The Future of Universities
When AT&T had its monopoly, it could afford Bell Labs, a major research institution that bragged at having more Ph.D.s than any other university. Now very few companies have basic research labs. The newspaper industry had aStanford…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Announces a Brain Chip
IBM has announced a new chip " ... an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information. IBM
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drug Vending Machines
Vending machines. Having seen them used to considerable effect in Japan, have always been interested in their application. Now they are vending drugs.
From Wild WebMink
? Is WebOS Android
Read about my discussion of WebOS with HP’s open source officer at OSCON, over on ComputerWorldUK now.
From Schneier on Security
New Attack on AES
"Biclique Cryptanalysis of the Full AES," by Andrey Bogdanov, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Christian Rechberger.
Abstract. Since Rijndael was chosen as the Advanced Encryption Standard, improving upon 7-round attacks on the 128-bit…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Web-Based Problem Solving Software for Programming Courses
We all know that students benefit for problem solving exercises. Creating these sorts of problems can be difficult and time consuming. Evaluating them and help students with then can be even worse. There are a couple of online…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gamification the Next Big Thing for Business?
Serious Games from Knowledge@Wharton, from the recent conference: " ... Gamification -- the application of online game design techniques in non-game settings -- has been quickly gaining the attention of leaders in business,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Tremor Launches Debit Card
Procter & Gamble's fabled word of mouth group Tremor, built during the early days of consumer social network understanding, has not been in the news lately, now news it is trying something quite new: "Procter & Gamble Co.Latest…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSEd Week: The Power of Numbers
Mark the calendar, gather up resources, and make some plans!
Computer Science Education Week (December 4th through 10th) is the opportunity to be part of a unified force of CS teachers across the US and around the world to impact…