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 The Eponymous Pickle
Mike2.0 on Open Methodologies
Brenda Somich sends along information about MIKE2.0. It's a non-profit community for sharing information on IM topics with other industry professionals. They also have a LinkedIn group. "... an Open Source methodology for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Generation Business Intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) is something I have worked on for years. For executives and for use by the individual employee. Recently BI has discovered well-integrated predictive analytics and visualization. Infoweek has a good…
From Schneier on Security
The Global Illicit Economy
A new class of global actors is playing an increasingly important role in globalization: smugglers, warlords, guerrillas, terrorists, gangs, and bandits of all stripes. Since the end of the Cold War, the global…
From Putting People First
Social science meets technology in next-generation jobs
Gartner says the bridge to the future with social networks will be with roles with origins in the social sciences, reports eWeek. Better understanding of the Web will require skill sets more closely aligned with sociology, psychology…
From Putting People First
Awareness is everything
Jamais Cascio argues on Fast Company that, as our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. “The real shift comes when we move away from direct…
From Putting People First
Organizational Culture 101: a practical how-to for interaction designers
“To navigate the landscape of organizational culture interaction designers need a set of practical tools, language & knowledge drawn from the world of cultural anthropology.” That is the core of the argument of Sam Ladner on…
From Putting People First
Josephine Green and Ezio Manzini featured in Philips magazine
From pyramids to pancakes The era of elitism, top-down management and deterministic ideals is over. We are now living in an age of social innovation and sustainability that opens up the future to the many, not just the few. Mass…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 7
Congress has returned from its August recess.
September 10
Meeting: The Consumer Advisory Committee of the Federal Communications Commission will meet to discuss the National Broadband Plan 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 445 12th St, S.W. Room…From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter E-Commerce Goals
From AdAge: P&G sets 4 Billion E-Commerce Goals. Increases have been suggested for years, this seems to a a very big and bold move forward. ' ... E-commerce has never reached even 1% of Procter & Gamble Co.'s sales, but now the…
From My Biased Coin
ESA 2009
ESA is being held at the IT University of Copenhagen. It's a wonderful, fairly new university building, with one strange problem -- a severe shortage of plug outlets. Really, it's like a scavenger hunt to find one. The auditorium…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Summer is Over. I Know Because I am Wearing Shoes Again
Last year was the first year in our Great Transition, from teaching computer application courses to integrating computer science concepts into all of our courses. It was a challenge that will continue into this year. So as I …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Aims for 360 Degree Insight
From the World Advertising Research Center (WARC): P&G Aims for 360 Degree Consumer Insight. Not too much very new here, but a restatement of an ongoing development.
From Putting People First
OPEN digital experience design: a strategic, trends-based approach
A recent article by Nita Rollins on DMI’s Digital Management Review: “As the Web has matured, brand relationships have become ever more dynamic. Nita Rollins outlines and illustrates the kinds of digital brand experiences consumers…
From Putting People First
All learning processes can be supported through mobile phones
Abhijit Kadle explains how the mobile phone can easily be used as a learning tool: “Like all communication and computing devices, mobile phones can be used to learn. The content delivered would depend on the capabilities (features)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Simulation
A neuro surgery simulator based on fMRI data, from Gizmodo. Also mentioned in Mind Hacks. Includes a video. Background information in Tech Review: ' ... First, patient data from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-09-07
JP Rangaswami does us all a favour by putting the facts about digital downloads all on one page. This whole situation has arisen because of an unplanned extension of the…
From My Biased Coin
ESA Talk and Paper
Some people have asked me to post my survey/talk at ESA on Open Problems in Cuckoo Hashing. Now that the talk is over, here they are! Here's the paper, and here's the slides (ppt). I apologize in advance for any typos. One…
From My Biased Coin
Controversy at ESA
As you might imagine, there's actually little controversy at ESA. But as I mentioned to some colleagues during the breaks, the only (consistent) way to get comments on a blog is to say controversial things, so that people are…
From Schneier on Security
David Kilcullen on Security and Insurgency
Very interesting hour-long interview.
Australian-born David Kilcullen was the senior advisor to US General David Petraeus during his time in Iraq, advising on counterinsurgency. The implementation of his strategies are now regarded…From The Eponymous Pickle
On Bad Graphs
Stephen Few on bad graphs in Information Management Magazine. I see it is a bit dated now, but still worth reviewing. Bad visualizations are very common. I have encountered many to make a 'point'.
From The Eponymous Pickle
ThisweKnow
I had taken a look at the government database data.gov when it came out earlier this year. Now there is a semantic database use case for this data called Thisweknow which addresses geographic data types. I am taking a look, since…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Role of Analysis in Invention
The role of statistical analysis in invention, by Felix Grant. Analysis as the mother of invention. Thoughtful piece.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gordon Bell's Mylifebits
BW reviews the status of the work by Gordon Bell with MyLifebits. Inspired in part by Vennevar Bush's unimplemented Memex idea. We saw MyLifebits presented in its early phases. The article positions it going beyond the Twitterverse…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Venture Capital Industry
Whats Really Happening to the Venture Capital Industry?. ' ... It is indeed quite likely that the venture industry is in the process of a very substantial reduction in size, perhaps the first in the history of the industry. However…
From The Noisy Channel
John Battelle:
From BLOG@CACM
Future World: Utopia?
A personal point of view about some technologies of the future world.
From The Noisy Channel
Not All Google Critics Are Bigots
From BLOG@CACM
The Benefits of Public Engagement
Working with public engagment projects can be satisfying, and has benefits for the researcher as well as the general public. This article describes my current Making Games in Schools project.
From Return 42;
The other side of the table: Bryan Cantrill
It is already time for next one. I actually can't believe how fast the time was passing by, which is probably caused by the amount of work I had to do in the past 2 weeks. Anyways, today we will hear the open questions of Bryan…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Coloration
Fascinating video.