Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2009
From CSDiary
Luis von Ahn on PBS Nova scienceNow
The PBS show Nova scienceNow will have a feature on Luis von Ahn. The show will air for the first time tonight (9pm on WQED here in Pittsburgh). A preview of the show, along with links to audio Q&A with Luis can be accessed here…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Track Federal IT Spending Online
Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra unveiled the IT Dashboard yesterday. The focus of this website is providing detail on all information technology investments by the various federal agencies. It's a graphics-intensive effort…
From Putting People First
August new media gathering in Banff involves Experientia partner
Interactive Screen 0.9: The Makers (10 to 15 August 2009) is the 14th installment of the Banff New Media Institute
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - June 2008 (Vol. 52, No. 6)
Here are some items in the June issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. As always, much of the content in CACM is premium content, and free content one month may require a subscription or fee the next.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Study by Google
In the Google Blog: A good overview of how they use eye-tracking for online analysis.
From BLOG@CACM
The End of a DBMS Era (Might Be Upon Us)
Relational database management systems (DBMSs) have been remarkably successful in capturing the DBMS marketplace. To a first approximation they are “the only game in town,” and the major vendors enjoy an overwhelming market share…
From Apophenia
PDF Talk: "The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online"
Two years ago this week, I wrote a controversial essay in an attempt to locate divisions that I was seeing play out between MySpace and Facebook. This week, at the Personal Democracy Forum, I revisited these ideas in a new talk…
From Putting People First
Are we losing our ability to think critically?
Samuel Greengard writes in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM on how some experts believe that computer technology might be affecting people’s ability to think deeply. “We’re exposed to [greater amounts of] poor yet…
From The Noisy Channel
Off to SIGMOD
From The Noisy Channel
Faceted Search Book Is In Print!
From The Eponymous Pickle
Debunking Social Media Myths
In Harvard Business Publishing. Short piece by David Armano with some excellent points.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience on 60 Minutes
A somewhat overblown segment on neuroscience biometric analysis on 60 Minutes last night. UK Neuroscientist Gemma Calvert, who we have worked with, was interviewed briefly. Work at Carnegie over viewed. Scientists interviewed…
From The Noisy Channel
Reports from HCOMP 2009
From The Noisy Channel
Malcolm Gladwell to Chris Anderson: No
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-29
Deliciously direct and deep paper looks at the assumptions behind our security thinking and confronts them head-on. Still relevant after 4 years, which…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation at P&G, Wal-Mart, Unilever
Good AdAge piece: " ... considering the competitive landscape and the company's own recent history, P&G Chief Technical Officer Bruce Brown made a fairly bold prediction on Fox Business News last week: That 2010 would be P&G's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Should Linking be Barred?
In the early days of the web the whole idea of linking to copyrighted content was questioned. All public content is by definition now copyrighted. That whole issue eventually went away. Now in a post by Judge Richard Posner…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Attention Scanning
From Mind Hacks, of paricular interest for anyone like myself, who is looking at new biometric methods for understanding the consumer in their multiple decision making contexts: A remarkable study has just been published in…
From The Noisy Channel
Even Google Should Beware Of Hubris
From CERIAS Blog
The ACM Banquet
Tonight (June 27) was the annual ACM Awards Banquet. This event is where various awards and recognitions are made, although most are announced well in advance. Among other things, this is when the Turing Award is officially given…
From The Noisy Channel
Are Spammers Taking Over Twitter?
From The Noisy Channel
Aardvark Burrows Out Of Beta
I just received an email from Max Ventilla, CEO of social search startup Aardvark, to let me know that Aardvark is now open to anyone who wants to sign up. Well, anyone with a Facebook account–but I can’t imagine that there are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Lattice Geometry Privacy Breakthrough
Mark Montgomery writes: ' ... Every once in a while someone's small idea leads to something huge. This could be one of those depending on how it plays out, providing the missing piece of the puzzle for individuals having thekyield…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence Tools Analysis
Dan Vesset and Brian McDonough of IDC provide an overview of the state of of Business intelligence tools: 'In 2008, the business intelligence (BI) tools market reached $7.8 billion in software license and maintenance revenue.…
From CSDiary
CIFellows Application Stats Posted
I’ve been pretty busy for the past couple of months, in part because of my involvement as the PI for the CCC’s Computing Innovation Fellows Project. The response to this new program has been tremendous, with 526 applications…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CIFellows Status Report
Less than six weeks ago we launched the Computing Innovation Fellows Project.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coupon Strategies Hasten towards Mobile
On the coupon strategies of retail until the day we go all mobile. As newspapers die and fraud continues. ' ... Many retailers had hoped that paper coupons will die a slower death, hanging on until mobile coupons were ready…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Netflix competition is over?
The
From CSDiary
Star Trek Tech
How much of the technology in Star Trek could become real some day? This was the question posed to a group of faculty members here at Carnegie Mellon Computer Science recently. Why? Because CMU Drama alumnus, Zach Quinto, starred…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Confidence vs Expertise
Dan Ariely's blog describes a study where participants were more influenced by confidence versus expertise. Very true, though very often confidence comes from expertise. A shaky causal analysis? Worth a look.