Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2014
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 22 September 2014
Last week ended with International Talk like a Pirate day. I doubt this would have spread as far as it has without the Internet. Things were very busy for CS education on the Internet last week. I’ve got a lot to share today.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cincinnati Business Intelligence Symposium
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SYMPOSIUMThe 11th Cincinnati Business Intelligence Symposium on October 9, 2014 will showcase presentations from thought leaders in business analytics. Each presenter will discuss how big-data analyticsBusiness…
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Bank Data Visualization Tool
Visualization at the World Bank ... in particular integrating visualization into communications and decision process is a good direction." ... The World Bank has launched a new website that allows users to track progress toward…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Work is Face to Face
In FastCompany: Look at the future of work." ... Forget what you think you know about the office of the future. No you won't all be working from home. The surprising reasons while Google's Bee keeping group and Instant messengers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supply Chain Control Risks
More compliance hints, here in the supply chain. Emphasized in our talk this past week at the SCCE conference. Just keeping an accurate list of connections like suppliers can be of considerable value in understanding risks.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Media and Big Data
In Forbes: Lots of rapidly changing data with great variety. An excellent example of good place for applying big data analytics. " ... Executives in nearly every industry are looking for ways to reap value from analytics…
From updated sporadically at best
Some Cooking Updates from the Kitchen-Field
I've been making some slow and steady progress in expanding my cooking repertoire. I even got some plants! Here are some reports from the kitchen-field (because there are plants now, see) covering the main advances since I lasted…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printer Launch into Space
In Mashable: A 3D printer is scheduled to be launched into space tomorrow. I remember a number of plans to test manufacture in zero G. Not sure of the results of those experiments. A natural next step?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blog Stats and Tags
This blog is now nearly ten years old, has nearly 10,000 posts. It is supported by over 5,000 tweets. @FranzD .. It grew out of an earlier enterprise blog that was started in 2001. Wanted to point out that all new posts are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introduction to Ethnographic Field Research
Article and link to a PDF article on the topic. We had an informal representative of the role in the enterprise, and found in particular the aspect of how they gathered knowledge about people and their behavior to be very useful…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The New Digital Medicine
In the CACM: How Digital Medicine is changing health care. And a caution: " ... Despite the pace of technological development, experts caution all these devices and digital platforms will not force major change quickly. "I…
From Putting People First
An ethnographic introduction
A Simple Introduction to the Practice of Ethnography and Guide to Ethnographic Fieldnotes By Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, Marshall University Marshall University Digital Scholar (June 2014): 1-10…
From Putting People First
Human-centered design toolkit by IDEO.org
The team at IDEO.org launched Design Kit — a “refresh” of its HCD Connect platform launched in 2011. It is a step-by-step guide to the elements of human-centered design, specifically adapted for NGOs and social enterprises working…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evaluating MOOC in Coursera
One of the founding partners of the MOOC giant Coursera is the University of Pennsylvania. The Most recent alumni magazine has an article on the evaluation of the MOOC experience that contains useful in depth experiences and…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid Dissected in New Zealand
Months after it was found in August, scientists have dissected a colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alibaba IPO Emerges
If you have not seen it yet. Alibaba.com " ... We operate leading online and mobile marketplaces in retail and wholesale trade, as well as cloud computing and other services. We provide technology and services to enable consumers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Meets the C-Suite
Good Historically Looking view of executive AI via McKinsey." ... Technology is getting smarter, faster. Are you? Experts including the authors of The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, examine the impact…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science Reaches Students During Afterschool Clubs
Afterschool clubs can be a productive venue to introduce CS activities that enhance the K-12 experience for students. In addition to ventures into school day integration of CS (such as Code.org’s efforts), afterschool programs…
From Schneier on Security
iOS 8 Security
Apple claims that they can no longer unlock iPhones, even if the police show up with a warrant. Of course they still have access to everything in iCloud, but it's a start....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 Code Hunt Challenge
Microsoft is running their big Imagine Cup international student competition again this year. While some of the events take a lot of work and teams of students some of them are individual events. The Code Hunt Challenge is one…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multi Sensory Packaging
In Packaging Digest: A long time area of innovation research. The use of touch sensory design in packaging and display. Tactility they are calling it. Here there is no digital technology mentioned, but this leads to thinking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Proximity Marketing
Short article in ClickZ on proximity marketing with beacons. " .... Beacons have the ability to accelerate the mobile shopping experience and create increased engagement with consumers. Here are some examples of companies utilizing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Challenge to Innovation
In Innovation Excellence: The No. 1 Challenge. To me it is culture and context. Over a long career have seen many examples. Here they suggest: " ... The biggest challenge to innovation is not how to generate new ideas and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Countering Fraud With Big Data
Obvious application. Having more data lets you more easily extract outliers and patterns of interest. Find correlations that don't need to be causation. This has been done long before data was big, or even commonly available…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship Program seeking graduate students
The National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship Program provides U.S. graduate students in science and engineering with an opportunity to spend 8 weeks (10 weeks for Japan) during…
From Schneier on Security
Fake Cell Phone Towers Across the US
Earlier this month, there were a bunch of stories about fake cell phone towers discovered around the US These seems to be ISMI catchers, like Harris Corporation's Stingray, and are used to capture location information and potentially…
From Putting People First
Digital tools for design research
Dan Perkel of IDEO Labs shares how he and his colleagues use digital methods and tools to enhance the research process in five distinct activities: – Exploring the terrain and seeking quick inspiration – Recruiting research participants…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
So Many Ways To Do The Same Thing
I updated my list of block programming languages and tools yesterday. Two more bringing the total list to 17. Seventeen? Yep. Also this week I learned about Gidget (thanks to Mark Guzdial) which is a more text based programming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simpler 3D Printing
3d printing for everyone. Dremel's device is relatively simple to use. Will these be as common as computers in the home? " ... Dremel has announced the first 3D printer to come from a major tool manufacturer, the $999 Dremel…
From Computational Complexity
Gentry and Lurie and Zhang can say they are genius's without bragin'- MacArthur Genius's
(If I mispell anything in this post, well, that"s why I'm not a MacArthur Genius, or any other kind of Genius.) Craig Gentry, of homomorphic encryption fame, won a 2014 MacArthur Genius award. here is an article about it and…