Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2012
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Praises Facebook
Marc Pritchard touts the use of Facebook in the Olympics 'Thank You Mom' campaign as a perfect storm ... Good example of the use of integrated social media. " ... Procter & Gamble is looking to generate $500 million in sales…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Benefits of Being a GHC Community Volunteer
This year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is drawing nearer and nearer, and our call for Community Volunteers has gone out! I was a volunteer each year that I attended the conference (2008, 2009, and 2010), and…
From Schneier on Security
Detecting Spoofed GPS Signals
This is the latest in the arms race between spoofing GPS signals and detecting spoofed GPS signals.
Unfortunately, the countermeasures all seem to be patent pending.
From Computational Complexity
Another Algorithmic Market Failure
In 2009, Matt Cushman, Managing Director at Knight Equity Markets, gave a seminar at Northwestern on "High Frequency Trading". Here is the abstract: High frequency trading has emerged over the past decade as a critical component…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2012 Microsoft US Forum Wrap Up
I missed out on most of the US Forum this year but as I said on Monday () I was able to attend the gala that finished out the event with the award ceremony. I wanted to link to more information provided by people who were there…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flash Drives vs Disk
More reliable and much faster. Expect flash drives to take over from disk drives. But with the advent of the pervasive Cloud will we be storing much less there? More.
From My Biased Coin
Article about DEC Folk
Interesting Wired article talking about a bunch of people I worked with back when I was at Digital Systems Research Center, and their big effect on Google. It's great to see them get credit for all they've done.
From Schneier on Security
Chinese Gang Sells Fake Professional Certifications
They were able to hack into government websites:
The gang’s USP, and the reason it could charge up to 10,000 yuan (£1,000) per certificate, was that it could hack the relevant government site and tamper with the back-end database…From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Experiments
Wharton WCAI has an upcoming free webinar on Marketing Experiments: From the Basics to the Cutting Edge. On September 12. I plan to attend. More information and registration here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Privacy Illusions
A recent conversation with a client brought up the issue of privacy in the cloud. How does it differ from information stored in other locations? In E-Commerce Times: A look at how entities like governments around the world…
From Schneier on Security
Yet Another Risk of Storing Everything in the Cloud
A hacker can social-engineer his way into your cloud storageand delete everything you have.
It turns out, a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card number are the only two pieces of information anyone needs…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco Virtual Stores in the UK
Richard James writes: In the Guardian: "Tesco has launched the UK's first virtual supermarket at Gatwick airport in the hope bored holidaymakers waiting for their flights will want to order a delivery for when they return." and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Enters Social Gaming
Amazon enters the gaming fray. " ... Amazon says that it has started making social games because it believes it can make social games well. "We know that many Amazon customers enjoy playing games--including free-to-play social…
From Schneier on Security
Peter Swire Testifies on the Inadequacy of Privacy Self-Regulation
Ohio State University Law Professor Peter Swire testifies before Congress on the inadequacy of industry self-regulation to protect privacy.
From Geeking with Greg
The computer scientist CEO
Marissa Mayer as CEO of Yahoo may be a test of a new style of executive leadership, the optimizing CEO. She is not the first computer scientist to lead a major company, but she is the first computer scientist (MSCS or higher)…
From Wild WebMink
On Marital Harmony
In InfoWorld today, I explain why I gave my wife my iPad. She loves it, and I am very happy too as I now use a Google Nexus 7 tablet for everything the iPad used to do – and a load more. The most important part is in the last…
From Putting People First
How to reimagine wearable technology
PSFK spoke to Dhani Sutanto, a Digital Art Director who became fed up with swiping his Oyster card through the reader like millions of other Londoners each day. He decided to tinker around with the card and create a more fashionable…
From Putting People First
Interaction design for data visualizations
Interactive data visualizations are an exciting way to engage and inform large audiences. They enable users to focus on interesting parts and details, to customize the content and even the graphical form, and to explore large…
From Putting People First
Service design at IKEA
Walking through IKEA over the weekend with two young children, writes Shailesh Manga on UXMovement, was a healthy reminder of what contributes to an ideal customer experience: innovative product design and thoughtful service…
From Putting People First
Tablet versus PC: a creative decision
By fighting over whether tablets or PCs are better tools for creating content—as a sort of proxy war over whose vision owns the future of computing devices—we may be overlooking something important: the possibility that these…
From My Biased Coin
Like a Movie Meteor...
The new semester is hurtling toward me.This semester I get to teach one of my graduate courses, the one I named Algorithms at the End of the Wire sometime over a decade ago, when that seemed like an appropriate title. Students…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data and the 2012 Summer Olympics
Over the past year, we have blogged extensively in this space about the promise of “big data” — noting the enormous volume and heterogeneity of data, as well as the velocity of its generation, across nearly all areas of science…
From Computational Complexity
My take on the Olympics
Thoughts about the Olympics If you are rooting for your country, would you rather they get (say) 18 medals: 6 Gold, 6 Silver, 6 Bronze, or 17 medals: 10 Gold, 4 Silver, 3 Bronze? More generally, when is (g,s,b) better than…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Customer Behavior
An example in the gaming industry. Which we explored as a solution to retail applications as well. The use of analytics have been common there for years, given the industry's use of loyalty data to leverage behavioral interaction…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nearly Half of Smart Phone Using Shopping Apps
From Nielsen: Not very surprising, the convenience and ubiquity will prevail. " ... Survey results released on Monday showed that 45 million people, or 47 percent of all smartphone owners, used mobile apps in the Nielsen-defined…
From Schneier on Security
Verifying Elections Using Risk-Limiting Auditing
Interesting article on using risk-limiting auditing in determining if an election's results are likely to be valid. The risk, in this case, is in the chance of a false negative, and the election being deemed valid. The risk level…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Kodu: Mars Edition
Did you follow the landing of the latest Mars rover – Curiosity? Well if you did or even if you just know a bunch of space crazy students the latest version of Kodu is for you. Last week Microsoft announced (and launched)Kodu…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Digital Gold
In AdWeek: A look at what P&G has done with digital and the Olympics. Also a mention that augmented reality saw little traffic. " ... Procter & Gamble's broad-based digital campaign linked to the London Olympics is part…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Vipin Kumar to Receive 2012 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award
Vipin Kumar, the William Norris Professor and head of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota, will receive the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery…