Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2009
From Putting People First
New EU discussion paper and consultation: Fostering user-driven innovation through clusters
“Involving users in the innovation process seems to be increasingly recognised as an important challenge not only for enterprises, but also for innovation support providers,” reports the website of Pro Inno Europe, an innovation…
From Putting People First
Success stories in design management
An article published by the European Commission’s Enterprise & Industry department: “Design management is a key driver of innovation and competitiveness and the EU-backed ADMIRE (Design Management Europe, DME) project is raising…
From CERIAS Blog
Odds & Ends
Cyber Leap Year Summit
I've heard from many, many people who read my blog post about this. So far, everyone who attended and was not involved with the planning of the Summit has basically agreed with my comments.
Here is an interesting…From The Eponymous Pickle
Store Simulation and Category Placement
I met today with Herb Sorensen and Bill Hruby to see TNS's just released Atlas Store Datamining Tool. An impressive piece of work that takes insights from Herb Sorensen's Inside the Mind of the Shopper book and adds them to a…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity in the Light of Fairness
Let me start by saying I am new to this board of directors and I do not really have a good feel for what YOU want to hear or read about just yet
From Computational Complexity
Possibly Recruits for the Polymath Primes Project
In the book The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks there is a true story about two twin brothers (John and Michael), both autistic, who have the following properties (Sentences in italics…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - September 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 9)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and free content one month may slip behind a pay wall the next.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging Visualizations Over Time
A bit dated, but research at Yahoo about image tag usage over time. Here is the full technical paper. Not sure if this has gone anywhere, if anyone knows do let me know.
From The Noisy Channel
Blogs I Read: The Haystack Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking the Long Tail
In Knowledge@Wharton: Re-thinking the long tail. ' ... a new research paper by Wharton professor Serguei Netessine and doctoral student Tom F. Tan challenges that theory using data from the movie rental company Netflix. ... '…
From The Eponymous Pickle
E-Mail Cautionary Tale
In Slashdot a cautionary tale about how easy, cheap and relatively risk free it is to have third parties hack a public e-mail account. Have been involved in cases where legal discovery would have you made you cautious about what…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Relational databases: are they obselete?
Michael Stonebraker is predicting that the dominance of the generic relational database is coming to an end. Having recently founded several database companies,
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Global Brand Data
A very interesting visualization of global brand data, a mix of geographic, network and more typical business intelligence graphics. Probably not the simplest way of displaying this data, but it does quickly attract your attention…
From Computational Complexity
Announcing a New Blog: Silent Glen Speaks
There is another Theory Blogger: Silent Glen. How can a blogger by silent? Sounds like a contradiction in terms! Hope its not a contradiction since she is already on our blogroll. I emailed her the offer to annouce her blog…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simple Portfolio Analysis
Today I attended a webinar by Gary L. Lilien on teaching portfolio analysis using the GE/McKinsey approach. He is author of the book Marketing Engineering. Have mentioned it here before that some of our internal portfolio work…
From Schneier on Security
Printing Police Handcuff Keys
Using a 3D printer. Impressive.
At the end of the day he talked the officers into trying the key on their handcuffs and
From Putting People FirstGrameen Foundation: mHealth ethnography report
One of the projects of AppLab, the application laboratory of the Grameen Foundation, is focused on mobile technology for community health (MoTeCH) in Ghana: “Grameen Foundation has launched an initiative to determine how best…
From BLOG@CACMSorry, Turing
A happy ending to the petition which asked for an apology to Turing from the British government.
From My Biased CoinRandom Musings for the Day
I like Daniel Lemire's post on "the truth" about research grants so much, I'm linking to it.Richard Lipton is taking bets on whether P = NP; well, not really, but he thinks there are "implicit odd" in how we do research suggesting…
From Putting People FirstMayo Clinic
This week the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation hosted Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery. The symposium, which featured over twenty presenters, was structured in six sessions…
From The Eponymous PickleLong Lasting Perfume Delivery
Procter & Gamble's Connect & Develop program requests input for technical solutions to long lasting perfume delivery system.
From The Eponymous PickleNeuroscience Picks top Emmy Winners
Sands Research claims to have predicted the top Emmy Awards (three out of top five) with their EEG based NEF scores, details in post, plus links to their previous Superbowl ad rankings. Good neuroscience-based analysis of popular…
From Computer Science Teachers AssociationReport from the AZ Leadership Cohort
I am fortunate that my fellow Arizona representative on the Leadership Cohort, Renee Ciezki, is a friend from the same school district. Although this has probably limited our vision a little, it has made it very easy to communicate…
From The Eponymous PickleNeuromarketing Overview
From Kevin Randall at FastCompany: Neuromarketing Hope and Hype: 5 Brands Conducting Brain Research. Reasonably short, but necessarily incomplete overview of the topic. Thanks to Krista Neher at Bootcampdigital and a number…
From Computational ComplexityFashionable Research
A student asks "How do you survive in the academic world if what you want to do is not fashionable?"
You shouldn't necessarily focus your research on the currently hot topic. Many people will flock to this area so you'll …
From The Eponymous PickleNew at Qwaq
Received a note about updates at Qwaq: Virtual Spaces for Real Work. Much surprised they have not received more traction. We took a look a few years ago and I have posted on it here before. Similar in a general sense to virtual…
From Putting People FirstYahoo!
Archana Rai of LiveMint.com, the online edition of Mint, an Indian partner publication of the Wall Street Journal, has interviewed Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo! Research. In the interview, Churchill explains how in her present…
From Putting People FirstThis happened
This happened is a series of London-based events focusing on the stories behind interaction design. “Having ideas is easier than making them happen. We delve into projects that exist today, how their concepts and production…
From Putting People FirstWayfinding through technology
Cennydd Bowles, a user experience designer for Clearleft, discusses how people form mental models of urban environments, and how technology can augment and even replace our wayfinding skills. The article was published on Johnny…
From The Eponymous PickleSmartphones vs Desktops
Although smartphones have made considerable progress in being business friendly tools Forrester suggests that desktops still rule for business applications. We tested Blackberries early on for executives and now smartphones have…