Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2013
From The Eponymous Pickle
iPad in Business at the Procter & Gamble Company
Mark Lacy sends this along, nicely done. A excellent example of how tablets can be used in the enterprise. Congratulations to my former colleagues, see the full video at the link below: " ... Shawn Flannery At last, the Apple…
From XRDS
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students Volume 20 Issue 2, Winter 2013
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Forget about blenders
XRDS Staff
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Inbox
XRDS Staff
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Getting dressed in tech
Terrell R. Bennett, Julia Seiter
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Student chapters in Europe
Virginia Grande
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How you can change the world
Connor Bain
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Maintaining ACM traditions: Professional development done right
Michael Zuba
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The Google technical interview: How to get your dream job
Dean Jackson
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Security bugs in large software ecosystems
Dimitris MitropoulosThe XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from security and privacy to neuroscience. Selected blog posts, edited for print, will be featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post…
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The scary reality of identity theft
Wolfgang Richter
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The many stages of writing a paper, and how to close the deal
Suresh VenkatasubramanianOriginally posted on The Geomblog
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Quantified performance: assessing runners with sensors
Christina Strohrmann, Gerhard TrösterA look at how athletic performance can be measured outside of the laboratory.
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Fitness trackers
Andrew MillerDigital activity sensors are no longer confined to research labs; they're in the wild and they come in lime green. They offer the promise to improve our health and even to affect the ways that we interact with others…
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Tracking how we read: activity recognition for cognitive tasks
Kai KunzeUsing activity recognition for cognitive tasks can provide new insights about reading and learning habits.
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Toward smartphone assisted personal rehabilitation training
Gabriele Spina, Oliver AmftWhen utilizing internal sensors, modern smartphones are inexpensive and powerful wearable devices for sensor data acquisition, processing, and feedback in personal daily health applications.
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Capturing human motion one step at a time
Rolf AdelsbergerThe design, construction, and deployment of a pressure-enhanced IMU system that fits in the bottom of your shoe.
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mHealth @ UAH: computing infrastructure for mobile health and wellness monitoring
Mladen Milosevic, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Emil JovanovNew health care systems that integrate wearable sensors, personal devices, and servers promise to fundamentally change the way health care services are delivered and used.
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Airwriting: bringing text entry to wearable computers
Christoph Amma, Tanja SchultzIt may be possible to enable text entry by writing freely in the air, using only the hand as a stylus.
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Wearable brain computer interface are we there yet?
Viswam NathanBrain computer interfaces are still restricted to the domains of health and research, but we understand what needs to be done and are getting closer to making a commercial wearable EEG system.
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Profile Ori Inbar: Making augmented reality a reality
Adrian Scoică
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Cryptography, security and privacy (CrySP) research group: Waterloo, Canada
Atif Khan
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Robotic vacuums
Finn Kuusisto
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On constructing the tree of life
Marinka Zitnik
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sharing Massive Data
In BBC Technology: How do game companies readily share very large 50GB plus files? This interested me because I recently had to do this for an analytics project. I did not have quite the problem they had, my files were smaller…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interdisciplinary Computing and Computer Science
Had an interesting conversation with Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk See her Interdisciplinary Computing Blog :" ... Computing and people who work with computers are not the nerdy and negative images often portrayed in the media. As a computer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Agents
In Computing Now: Long time since I heard about this topic, we experimented broadly in the supply chain area, with some success. " .... Emphasis on autonomous systems has been growing steadily in recent years as users and organizations…
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Connected Kitchens
We explored the kitchen in the smart home in detail because we believed that the kitchen was the nexus of the home. Connecting it as one of the nodes in an internet of things was an early examination. A new piece in ReadWrite…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Useful Mystery of Light Harvesting
In Technology: New to me, always fascinating when there is activity in nature that we cannot explain by physics and chemistry. And certainly one that could point to a new kind of computing. Is there a connection? Don't have…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Worm Discovered
This squid-like worm -- Teuthidodrilus samae -- is new to science.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.