Communications of the ACM
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August 2013
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comment Policy Again
A reminder. Comments are moderated here. They must be in English. I will not post anonymous comments unless prearranged. I will not allow a comment with links to sites I cannot obviously validate without clicking on them…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Euclid Strikes Back
An application of Euclid’s famous proof there are an infinite number of primes Euclid of Alexandria, Euclid for short, composed one of the most influential books ever written on mathematics. His Elements served as the textbook…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why All of this Stuff?
Who am I and why all this activity? Blogging in various forms since 2001. I analyze, write and improve. More about me here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/franzdill/ Contact me for more.
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Brain Project Focuses on Memory Ethics
In Nature: Much about the operational aspects of the brain. The ownership of our own neural data. " ... Unsettling research advances bring neuroethics to the fore. ... " I have been reading Oliver Sack's recent book: …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building the 21st Century Grocery Store?
Interesting, but too much 'California' in this article. Submit that there is is still no efficiency here, and cost will prevail. " ... The Good Eggs "farm-to-fridge" business model turns the supermarket model on its head. Instead…
From Schneier on Security
Management Issues in Terrorist Organizations
Terrorist organizations have the same management problems as other organizations, and new ones besides:
Terrorist leaders also face a stubborn human resources problem: Their talent pool is inherently unstable. Terrorists are…From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing and Augmented Reality
Have long been interested in the use of Augmented Reality for marketing, both in the store and in mobile. Still early in its use, but it is evolving quickly now. Good article on the topic in CMO." ... It's Not About The Technology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Big Data is Reshaping Marketing
In the coming weeks I will be passing along some of the excellent work by correspondent Phil Hendrix. Here is a set of slides on How Big Data is Reshaping Marketing presented at Emory University, July 29, 2013. Philip E. Hendrix…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting to the Reality of Behavior
In Research: (On Wisdom of Crowds and Theory of Group Behavior)Why research needs to go beyond the individual’s perspective to get closer to the reality of behaviour. By Rob Egerton and Jeanette Kaye.Gestalt rooms, image sorts…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal CIO Council Announces Re-Organization
The Federal CIO Council is the primary cross-agency group for information technology management in the government. On Friday the Council announced a major reorganization. Now led by the federal Chief Information Officer, the…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Who is Teaching Computer Science in US High Schools?
How do you fit in amongst the roughly 800 teachers who shared what they teach, how they are supported by their schools, their background and what's important to them? A new survey that answers these questions has just been released…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling and Screenwriting
I was recently introduced to a book: Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, by Blake Snyder. Which led me to some questions. Have recently been looking at storytelling techniques to facilitate executive…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Ideas Lab Workshop Applications Due August 19
The following is an article published in the August 2013 edition of Computing Research News. Ideas Lab Fostering Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning: Data-Intensive Research to Improve Teaching and Learning By…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining Conference
Via Cacm: A data mining conference whose outcomes will be interesting. Have followed and attended the KDD for years. Will seek to report information that emerges: " ... This week, Chicago hosts the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retail Digital Client Management
A client brought this to my attention. Multiple screens in one for retail experiences. Aimed at decreasing advertising costs and better targeting marketing campaigns The article link below provides some very interestingI…
From Computational Complexity
Flash Gordon
We watched the movie Ted last week but this post isn't about that movie. The movie has several references to the 1980 movie Flash Gordon including an extended cameo by Sam Jones who played Flash. Flash Gordon and its soundtrack…
From Schneier on Security
The NSA is Commandeering the Internet
It turns out that the NSA's domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Cait Sydney Pickens
One really can meet people online though sites like Twitter. That is how I met Cait Sydney Pickens. I look at everyone who follows me on Twitter and saw her name. That lead to her blog (Computing Education a research blog about…
From Putting People First
By Us, For Us: The power of co-design and co-delivery
At the core of a People Powered Health approach is collective ownership of health and wellbeing. Professionals need to start from the position of not necessarily knowing the right answer, which is a significant challenge. Creating…
From Putting People First
Book: Lean UX
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf (Author) and Josh Seiden (Editor) O’Reilly Media February 2013 (Amazon link) “The Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today’s…
From Putting People First
Why a new Golden Age for UI design is around the corner
Cliff Kuang writes in Wired how designers are working on their most ambitious challenge yet: weaving the digital world into our everyday lives so seamlessly that we don’t even notice. “Over the past 30 years, as every facet of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics on Location
In IEEE Computer Now: None of this seems very new. But there is certainly lots of new data to feed the methods. " ... Companies have long been using analytics to make sense of the huge amount of data they collect from customers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Becoming a Brand Specialist
Some interesting thoughts on specialization and the data required to manage them. How does this apply to other current hype areas, like Hadoop, Big Data or Predictive Analytics? The comments are also instructive. " .…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Using CSTA K-12 Standards to Create Curricular Choices
In 2010 Springfield made computer science a graduation requirement and offered two paths to meet that requirement: a gifted course and an academic course. Both courses were based on the CSTA K-12 Standards, and have evolved as…
From My Biased Coin
Managing Your Advisor by Nick Feamster
I thought Nick Feamster's post on managing your advisor was a good read and good advice for new graduate students. In fact, I'd recommend undergraduates read it too -- to get a better idea of how to manage their interactions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Innovation: Heart of Small Business
In Free Enterprise: John Mason GM of IBM's Midmarket Business writes:" ... The drive to innovate is alive and well within the hearts of small businesses. But as most successful small business leaders know, it's not enough toAs…
From Schneier on Security
<i>Time</i> Magazine Names "Schneier on Security" to Best Blog List
My blog as made the Time magazine "The 25 Best Bloggers 2013 Edition" list.
I can't believe this was published ten days ago, and I'm only just finding out about it. Aren't all you people supposed to be sending me links of things…From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee Meeting – August 15, 2013
The USPTO Patent Public Advisory Committee will hold its quarterly meeting on Thursday, August 15, 2013, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm at the USPTO campus in Alexandria, Virginia. The meeting is open to the public. The meeting will…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Welcomes Claudia Gordon as White House Public Engagement Advisor for the Disability Community
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council welcomes President Obama’s appointment of Claudia Gordon as the new White House Public Engagement Advisor for the Disability Community. Ms. Gordon previously served as the Special Assistant…
From Schneier on Security
Stories from MI5
This essay is filled historical MI5 stories -- often bizarre, sometimes amusing. My favorite:
It was recently revealed that back in the 1970s -- at the height of the obsession with traitors -- MI5 trained a specially bred group…