Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2012
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Maintenance
Old approaches to maintenance doesn't work any more. A predictive maintenance in a smarter planet. A favorite topic of mine, including context in prediction: " ... Just because machines start out the same way doesn’t mean…
From Wild WebMink
Tweetlog for September 10, 2012
Some cool demo shots of Lytro’s refocussable photos: Lytro http://t.co/DBUj0phy September 10, 2012 at 09:02AM - – - – - Chill out. Watch some clouds drift by http://t.co/bDSsGC99 September 10, 2012 at 11:13AM - – - – - Free/Libre…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tabeo: A Child Focused Tablet
In CIO: Not sure I agree. Why not just have a collection of Apps aimed at the child? Yet I imagine it will engage the parent that is not comfortable with the tablet idea to begin with. And being child proof to some degree…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Understanding People and Places with Photos
In Queue: Was discussed this today in an enterprise innovation lunch, relating photos to reality. I have worked in this space before, and it deserves a better answer.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Will tablets kill PCs?
I have always been a fan of the personal computer. I worked all summer once to buy myself a cloned PC XT. I probably would not be a computer science researcher without the personal computer. It has shaped my life. We may not…
From My Biased Coin
Happiness Is...
NSF saying yes to your grant... (Isn't that one of the lyrics?)Once again, thanks to the NSF, I get to remain in business* for the next 3-4 years or so. (Arguably, a large chunk of the thanks also goes to my colleagues Michael…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
“Tech’s New Wave, Driven by Data”
Technology writer Steve Lohr had a great piece about the future of computing — and other fields — in The New York Times yesterday: TECHNOLOGY tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the…
From Schneier on Security
Another Stuxnet Post
Larry Constantine disputes David Stanger's book about Stuxnet:
So, what did he get wrong? First of all, the Stuxnet worm did not escape into the wild. The analysis of initial infections and propagations by Symantec show that…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 10 September 2012
Happy Monday! I actually want to start this post with something my friend Paul R Wood @paulrwood said on Twitter last week. Paul is a technology director at a private high school in Texas and a great person who really caresI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Consumer Research
A worthwhile reprise based on several comments and calls. Virtual research is a powerful concept:We didn’t just decide to leverage some industry standard research experience into a new approach. All of our founding partnersOur…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing 2012
One of the ways that one can help young women with an interest in computing and related fields is to provide recognition for the world they have already been doing. One of the great programs in this regard is the NCWIT Award…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Useful Download Links for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Development
Part of my job is to help people find valuable resources. I especially like it when they are free. Free is good. These links are for students, faculty and professional (or non professional) developer. Please check these links…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Welcome to My New Blog Home
This blog has actually existed for a while but had not been my real blog home. Recent changes (Leaving Microsoft) mean that I can no longer blog about computer science education and related issues at my previous blog. That’shttp…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CEO Data Data Driven Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: Colleague Julie Anixter makes good points " ... there is one very heartening trend that we're observing as the drumbeat for CEO action gets louder, and it is this - better data driven tools are emerging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM RedBooks
Last week at a very informative Smarter Commerce meeting I was re-introduced to IBM Redbooks. Positioned as 'no cost know how'. They are written by a considerable assemblage of IBM experts, business partners and clients from…
From The Noisy Channel
Content, Connections, and Context
This is keynote presentation I delivered at the Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web, held as part of the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012): Content, Connections, and Context …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tablets as Shopping Palettes
An article in Ars Technica on the Kindle Fire made me think further about the tablet phenomena. I also traveled this week and spent time in a number of terminal waiting rooms, where I could count the increasing use of tablets…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wearable Computing
A health care proposal discussion for the use of Google Glass,wearable computing for physicians, had me looking at the idea again. Integrating key data for a consultation and integrating it with multiple opinions Is wearable…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Patching A Diagonalization
Fixing a flaw with less fuss? Dana MacKenzie is the author of a terrific book, The Universe in Zero Words. Actually the book has many words, 216 pages of them, but is a brilliant history of mathematics as told through equations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ingestible Sensors
From Springwise, and then linked to your phone.. A long ago idea, is proposed again.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery List Apps
In Mashable: Useful survey of a number of apps that address the simple grocery list. What are the key features?
From The Eponymous Pickle
In Need of Business Sufficiency
Seeking Better solutions. " ...The first project, launched 18 months ago, is the Business Sufficiency program, which gives executives predictions about P&G market share and other performance stats six to 12 months into the future…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualified Data Modeler
What is a qualified data modeler? " ...The data modeler is a key position in any business intelligence initiative. But what does it take to be a good data modeler? The skill requirements go well beyond knowledge about how to…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Controlling Squid Chromatophores with Music
Wacky. Other stories about the story.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Become a Computer Science Education Advocate!
Join Me! Become a Computer Science Education Advocate—With Some Help, Of Course
At CSTA's Computer Science & Information Technology conference this year, Cameron Wilson, who is the Director of Public Policy for the Association…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
PCAST Updating 2010 Report on Federal NITRD Program
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) heard this morning from Susan L. Graham (UC Berkeley and the Computing Community Consortium), Peter Lee (Microsoft Research), and David E. Shaw (D.E. Shaw…
From Putting People First
Service design in tourism
SDT2012 was the first international conference on service design thinking in the travel and tourism industry. For the first time, the conference brought together a community interested in the practical application of service…
From Wild WebMink
Distributed Teams And Open Source
Remote staff? Learn from open source. My article for InfoWorld this week observes that having a distributed team works best when you borrow the practices of the most successful open source projects, just as businesses like…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Marathon Races
Truly bizarre story of someone who seems to have figured out how to successfully cheat at marathons. The evidence of his cheating is overwhelming, but no one knows how he does it.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mass Customization and Open Innovation
Good topic. An area that also deserves more analytics attention. How should this be done better and lead to more sales and value?