Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2014
From XRDS
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students Volume 20 Issue 3, Spring 2014
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Enriching your network via diversity
Inbal Talgam-Cohen
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Tweet tweet!
Peter Kinnaird
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Cyber-physical systems
Haining Mo, Neeti Sharad Wagle, Michael Zuba
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Team players: How to be a good one
Vaggelis Giannikas
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Defending students from cyber crime: a hands on approach
Michael Zuba
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Getting a job at Box: five tips you won't learn in school
Tomas Barreto
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Seismic activity
Jay Patel
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Ultra-efficiency via sublinearity
Samira DarukiThe 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 in its…
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On domain-specific languages usage (why DLSs really matter)
Vassilios Karakoidas
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Storm-chasing drones
Eric FrewUnmanned aircraft systems. Aerial robots. Drones. Regardless of the name, this new technology is being developed to revolutionize the sampling and understanding of complex atmospheric phenomena.
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Feeding a hungry world: the potential for unmanned aircraft systems
Wayne Woldt, Eric Frew, George MeyerThe fusion of next generation sensors and advanced information systems, combined with advances in unmanned aircraft systems that have emerged through aerospace engineering technologies, will…
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Journalism with flying robots
Matt WaiteThe use of unmanned aerial drones will revolutionize news reporting, but many issues need to be resolved before things can really take off.
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Connecting with oceans using underwater acoustic networks
Michael ZubaOceans cover a majority of our planet and are currently lacking in regards to exploration and technological innovations. One technology that can help enable more aquatic applications is underwater acoustic networks…
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A dexterous crabster robot explores the seafloor
Bong-Huan Jun, Hyungwon ShimCrabster CR200 is a giant crab robot with six legs and 30 powerful joints developed at the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering. The robot can help explore ancient shipwrecks in…
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A high-speed, real-time mobile gait rehabilitation system
Wenlong Zhang, Yi-Hung Wei, Quan Leng, Song HanCombining advanced technologies in real-time wireless communication, control theory, sensor and actuator design, and rehabilitation science.
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Networking vehicles for safety: embedding cyber networks in physical networks
Yaser P. FallahA cyber-physical systems perspective on the design of vehicular networking solutions for safer and greener transportation.
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Composing on-demand intelligent PHYsical layers
Aveek Dutta, Dola SahaIn the future, our radio devices will adapt to deal with new types of signals. The challenge is to describe those signals so that devices can learn from one another and communicate.
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Profile Benjamin Cichy: writing code to run on Mars
Adrian Scoică
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NICTA ATP lab: Eveleigh, Sydney, Australia
Yan Shvartzshnaider
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Satellite navigation
Finn Kuusisto
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Efficient sensor placement for environmental monitoring
Marinka Zitnik
From The Eponymous Pickle
SXSW Accelerator Finalists in Big Data and Beyond
Thought provocative SXSW accelerator finalists. In particular the big data in the enterprise section, but more beyond that. " ... For the 2014 SXSW Accelerator pitch competition presented by Oracle, more than 500 web-based companies…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Photos
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Administration Launches Big Data and Privacy Review
As part of the government response to public concerns over national security surveillance programs, the President announced in January that there would be a review of government activity related to the collection and use of ‘Big…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture: AP Computer Science Principles
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 11:00 am (EST) by Owen Astrachan and …
From Schneier on Security
NEBULA: NSA Exploit of the Day
Today's item from the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group implant catalog:
NEBULA (S//SI//FVEY) Multi-Protocol macro-class Network-In-a-Box (NIB) system. Leverages the existing Typhon GUI and supports GSM, UMTS, CDMA2000…From The Eponymous Pickle
What Consumer Segments Say
Regrettably presented as an infographic, but an interesting view of consumer segmentation. Points through to a white paper that requires registration. " .... The white paper provides critical insights by exploring the attitudes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trade Marking Simple English Phrases
Can you trademark a phrase? To the extent to which you are willing to sue. In Language Log. A list of phrases and their defenders. Here the defenders are promoters of higher learning. Language trolling that is a waste of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shaping the Future of Manufacturing
In McKinsey: Some interesting views on manufacturing. " ... A Video: Shaping the future of manufacturing ... Advances in technology are allowing companies to rethink how and where goods are made. This series examines how manufacturing…