Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2010
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
IBM Extreme Blue Case Study Competition
Why is it that out of 20 awesome students in last summer's edition of IBM's Extreme Blue program in Ottawa, not one was female?That was the question the current program lead here wanted to know the answer to, and she came to …
From The Noisy Channel
Blogs I Read: Search Facets
A couple of years ago, I started The Noisy Channel as a personal blog. Since my then-employer Endeca didn’t have a corporate blog, I became the company’s ambassador to the blogosphere, despite my protests that this was not a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Value and Caution of Evolving Robots
Several commenters have reported this also mentions the finding that evolving robots also learn to prey and ask 'What could go wrong'?' ... Dario Floreano and Laurent Keller report in PLoS ONE how their robots were able to rapidly…
From The Noisy Channel
LinkedIn Search: A Look Beneath the Hood
Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a presentation by John Wang, search architect at LinkedIn. You may have read my earlier posts about LinkedIn introducing faceted search and celebrating the interface from a user perspective…
From My Biased Coin
Justifying Growth : We Need Better PR...
Background: As part of the "getting a new Dean" process, we're undergoing a "make a 5 year plan" process. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) had a mini-retreat just before classes started to discuss it all…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving Disaster Management
In Communications of the ACM: 'Improving Disaster Management: Social networking, sophisticated imaging, and dual-use technologies promise improved disaster management, but they must be adopted by governments and aid agencies.…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Do You Have What it Takes?
When I was teaching high school, I was the stereotypical teacher who liked to decorate my classroom and have 'inspirational' posters and pretty decorations around to motivate my students. And if I'm being real, I think I chose…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Music Conference
From: www.theconfluencegroup.comThe Original New music Seminar Hits LA on February 2. Keynote speaker Daniel EK, CEO of Spotify .... January 14th, 2009, NY, NY - The original New Music Seminar (NMS) For more see: http://www.newmusicseminar…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Nature of Startups
Steve Blank on A Startup is not a smaller version of a big company. Now having been involved with several of each, so true. Size and complexity do not scale linearly, nor together
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scent of a Woman
More non-rational signalling: Scent of a Woman: Men
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Getting serious about online teaching
Earlier this month, Michael Mitzenmacher told us about the record number of students attending his Harvard class online-only.
From Wild WebMink
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From The Eponymous PickleBetter Decisions Through Analytics
Tom Davenport podcast on better decisions through analytics, in the HBR Blog.
From Schneier on SecurityFriday Squid Blogging: Harrowgate's 1886 Giant Squid
I have no idea how to explain this.
From My Biased CoinPaper updates
We updated our Swoopo paper, Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank, mostly making small writing improvements and typo fixes that came up when we were preparing our conference submission. It's…
From Putting People FirstNokia
User experience is one of the most important success factors of a mobile application, according to Nokia. Therefore the company created a web section that describes the benefits of a good user experience, which also provides…
From Schneier on SecurityDeconfliction
This is well worth watching.
From The Eponymous PickleShifting Back to National Brands
In the WSJ: ' ... Shoppers are starting to open their wallets again for brand-name household basics, but it's taking lower prices, heavy advertising and new products to tempt them. Procter & Gamble Co. and Colgate-Palmolive…
From The Eponymous PickleFourSquare in Retail
Drew McLellan on Foursquare in the Marketing Prof Daily Fix. In particular he talks about its use as a location-based loyalty play. I was in NYC earlier this week and was surprised at the number of locations already using it.…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACMPolicy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - January 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 1)
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the January 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. You…
From The Eponymous PickleLas Vegas Facility Used for Consumer Research
Using these contextual spaces in focus-group style forums is an old idea. What is most interesting is that number of non-conscious, biometric capabilities are now being integrated into these spaces as well. ' ... At CBS Television…
From Schneier on SecurityTracking Your Browser Without Cookies
How unique is your browser? Can you be tracked simply by its characteristics? The EFF is trying to find out. Their site Panopticlick will measure the characteristics of your browser setup and tell you how unique it is.
I …
From BLOG@CACMLessons Learned, or Not
Many of the techniques for better programming have been there for a long time.
From The Eponymous PickleFacebook, Twitter and Procter
David Hornik posts in the Venture Blog. Sounds familiar, lots underway still, and there are special challenges for large complex, global organizatons. Scale also introduces requirements complexity. ' ... attended an event-…
From The Eponymous PickleDesire and Perception
Intriquing proposition: Desire influences visual perceptionWe tend to assume that we see our surroundings as they really are, and that our perception of reality is accurate. In fact, what we perceive is merely a neural representation…
From The Eponymous PickleHow do You Augment Reality?
Have also done some experimentation about how three dimensional visualizations can be overlaid on physical environments, with thoughts especially to retail contexts. Here is one such example, the Jiim system at the Australian…
From The Female Perspective of Computer ScienceLanguage, Learning and Literacy in a Digital Age
Kids fail at school because they are learning in a language that's foreign to them.That's the first thing I wrote down at a talk given at Carleton last week by James Paul Gee, a linguist and one of the English-speaking world's…
From Computational ComplexityReferees'''' reports
A commenter a LOOOOONG time ago left the following:
Tell me, Gasarch, how in the world do you get your papers published when you consistently skip the apostrophe in it's and that's? Do referees notice these things anymore, or…
From ApopheniaUpcoming Mary Gray talk on on "Out in the Country: Youth, Media & Queer Visibility in Rural America"
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed this. More and more, rural queer youth are building out networks…
From Schneier on SecurityWorld Privacy Day and the Madrid Privacy Declaration
Today is World Privacy Day. (I know; it's odd to me, too.) You can celebrate by signing on to the Madrid Privacy Declaration, either as an individual or as an organization.
Me, I'm celebrating -- but I'm not going to tell …
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