Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2011
From Putting People First
EPIC 2011 draft proceedings available for download
The draft proceedings of EPIC 2011, the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, currently taking place in Boulder, CO, USA, are available for download during the conference. They contain drafts of papers and workshop abstracts…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Marketing in Korea
In the Korea Herald: A general article in English on mobile and virtual retail developments in Korea. We looked to Korea for its forward looking understanding of retail, in home and appliance-centric solutions. " ... Commuters…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MS Robotic Studio
We examined a number of robotics solution for home solutions. In IEEE Spectrum: Microsoft Releases Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta, New Robot Platform. " ... Microsoft, to their credit, has done a good job of embracing Kinect…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is RFID?
I have given many talks on the nature and usefulness of Radio Frequency Identification. (RFID) I see today there is an article on RFID Journal about its nature that is worth reading. We will continue to see more application…
From Putting People First
Behavioural insights could save millions of pounds
Using behavioural insights could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds over the course of the [UK] Parliament and thousands of lives a year, according to an annual report published today. The Government
From Putting People First
Transform Conference at Mayo Clinic (videos)
A week ago Mayo Clinic
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Calling for Proposals: Envisioning Frontiers of Computing Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) — a standing committee of CRA that seeks to catalyze and empower the computing research community to pursue audacious, high-impact research — has issued a call for proposals for workshop…
From My Biased Coin
Guest Post on NYCE (Giorgos Zervas)
GUEST POST by GIORGOS ZERVAS I was at NYCE 2011 this past Friday. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and productive experience. I feel like I got a conference's worth for the cost of and time commitment of a long commute.The day started…
From Wild WebMink
? Tricks
The special trick that helps identify dodgy stats I’d heard of Benford’s Law before, but it was a timely reminder. There are quite a few banks of data that it would be good to test, not least open source community download/member…
From Schneier on Security
Complex Electronic Banking Fraud in Malaysia
The interesting thing about this attack is how it abuses a variety of different security systems.
Investigations revealed that the syndicate members had managed to retrieve personal particulars including the usernames, passwords…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 September 2011
I really had to post the information about the new Game development course yesterday (Game Development with XNA Curriculum
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 September 2011
I really had to post the information about the new Game development course yesterday (Game Development with XNA Curriculum–Semester Course). I’m pretty excited about that material. Teacher developed and tested and aligned toImagine…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Equity-Based Teaching Practices
As we embark on the school year, creating an equitable classroom environment is important for supporting girls and other underrepresented groups in a positive learning experience around computer science. There are several equity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wallet Arrives
In Mashable: " ... Google
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
Some of what has caught my attention recently:
From Schneier on Security
Pretty Creepy Type of Cyberstalking
Luis "Guicho" Mijangos, "sextortionist."
From The Eponymous Pickle
Optimizing Knowledge Yield in the Workplace
Mark Montgomery of KYield, writes about Optimizing Knowledge Yield in the Digital Workplace . Some very important topics. I am currently in the process of trying to understand some key examples of knowledge yield in the workplace…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Right BI Tool
Thoughtful piece about choices of BI tools. From MICHAEL TARALLO Pentaho Director of Enterprise Solutions. I have looked at Pentaho several times. It looked interesting but was not able to get it to legacy approaches in my…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 19
September 21 Hearing: The Technology and Innovation Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on Cloud Computing. 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn Building The Research and Science Education Subcommittee…
From Computational Complexity
Conferences Again
Lots of conference news and views going around. Let's sort it out. FOCS early registration deadline is September 29th, fast approaching. Deadline for applying for student support is this Thursday September 22. Apply even ifSTOC…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Microsoft East Region Bloggers
These days I am part of a larger team than I used to. There are some 22 of use including our manager. Everyone has a blog. This is the complete list.
Name
Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Gamification a fad?
A post about the claim. I think not. We used the idea of 'game dynamics' to encourage engagement in and outside the company. The term itself may be overstating it, but the goals involved are still those of the business, the…
From Schneier on Security
The Effectiveness of Plagiarism Detection Software
As you'd expect, it's not very good:
But this measure [Turnitin] captures only the most flagrant form of plagiarism, where passages are copied from one document and pasted unchanged into another. Just as shoplifters slip the…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Game Development with XNA Curriculum
Revitalize your Computer Science program with Game Development with XNA: Semester 1. This exciting and engaging computer science semester course enables students to apply a basic foundation in programming to create games andTeaching…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics with IBM SPSS
After attending the predictive analytics seminar last week I have been doing some examination of the current elements of the SPSS product suite. I found this particular useful recent writeup by the Ironside Group. This relates…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation Excellence
Julie Anixter, colleague and Chief Innovation Officer at Maga Design. examines and mashes up content from the Innovation Excellence blog. Put it on your feed, lots of interesting things are popping up. This mashup is a great…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Behavior Modification Using Games
Good interview with Rajat Paharia, founder of Bunchball. Do games alter behavior? Yes, but in a particular and often useful context. Its a kind of behavioral engagement, akin to behavioral economics. A month ago I have…
From The Noisy Channel
Visiting the East Coast: CMU and Strata New York
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spinscape
Spinscape: This collaborative idea for mind mapping was just pointed out to me. I am exploring further. I am a long time user of mind mapping for storing and delivering knowledge." ... Spinscape is a Web based application you…