Communications of the ACM
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September 2011
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Interesting Squid Recipes
Plus a slide show of pretty dishes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Rules Engines
I have been asked about the use ot business rules to drive specifics of process. This came up:Welcome to Business Rule Engine. This site is a companion to the book How to Build A Business Rules Engine: Extending Application…
From The Eponymous Pickle
You Need a Data Scientist
Good piece on the reasons why you need a data scientist to address how to use analytics for your business. In my own consulting business I get similar questions and give similar answers. Good initial read on the topic.
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Vulnerability in Teaching
The status quo in university lecturing is comfortable. You capture what you know on a set of slides (often using many words - kind of a brain dump, really), and tell students that 'this is the way it is' during class. You normally…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson and Wellpoint
Another good article, this in Analytics Magazine on the application of the IBM Watson AI technology and Wellpoint Inc. " ... WellPoint, Inc. and IBM announced an agreement to create the first commercial applications of the IBM…
From Putting People First
PressPausePlay, a film about hope, fear and digital culture
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature…
From Computational Complexity
Bibliographies
Lots of buzz about Princeton's new policy that prevents faculty from giving away the right to publish papers on their own web pages. Never seen faculty so happy to have their rights restricted. Princeton is behind the game for…
From Putting People First
Truth, lies and the internet
The internet is the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today. But the amount of material available at the click of a mouse can be both liberating and asphyxiating. Although there are more e-books, trustworthy…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
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From Putting People First
UX: old wine in new bottles?
Finnish researchers Antti Oulasvirta, Pertti Saariluoma, Rebekah Rousi and Jaana Leikas discuss replacing using intuitive notions of emotions with systematic psychological knowledge. “Underlying the recent surge in interest in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teasers from Brandwashed
Martin Lindstrom's latest book: Brandwashed has made number 8 on USA Today's bestsellers list. He sends along a flier that outlines a number of interesting topics in this controversial book. Check out the flyer here, it…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Advocating on the Advocate Blog
Recently I started a 10-week contract, filling in as a Math teacher at a local high school. Naturally one of my early questions was "So what senior computing classes do you have?" The answer, from the principal, was "None". A…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Trending Today: Life According to Twitter
There’s a new study out in tomorrow’s Science
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Site Analytics
Google Analytics is adding real time tracking to its dashboards. This will be phased in over the coming days.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kimberly-Clark Logistics
A good example of how RFID can be used to make the supply chain more efficient through transparency: " ... The consumer goods manufacturer is using a solution that includes EPC tags and readers to track the arrival, loading and…
From My Biased Coin
Allerton Part 2 : Venue Change?
Yesterday, I thought the best talks I saw were by Devavrat Shah and Dina Katabi.Dev was talking about how to track where rumors start. The model is you have a graph of nodes that have been infected (by a rumor, or disease, or…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interdictive Analytics
Forrester's James Kobielus on what he is calling 'Interdictive Analytics'. Good thoughts. I had not heard the term before but it is form of predictive alerting using analytics, that is not uncommon." ... Predictive analytics…
From Wild WebMink
? Extension of Power
Alert To Activists: Customs Enforcement of IPR “This is a very worrying development. Borders are places with arbitrary rules, over-empowered and unaccountable officers and no recourse for victims. It is simply wrong to give open…
From Schneier on Security
Insecure Chrome Extensions
An analysis of extensions to the Chrome browser shows that 25% of them are insecure:
We reviewed 100 Chrome extensions and found that 27 of the 100 extensions leak all of their privileges to a web or WiFi attacker. Bugs in…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
DoE
At an event in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Analytics Transforming Retail Business Planning
Correspondent Armen Najarian at DemandTec posts an excellent piece: Four Ways Social Analytics will Transform Retail Business Planning. Read his list of four dimensions of transformation. I heartily agree. Let me take it further…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Packaging and Consumer Choice
An interesting case study in Knowledge @ Wharton regarding packaging design at Heinz and how innovative packaging can be transformational in very common and 'old' businesses.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Davenport Looks at MoneyBall
Information and analytics in Baseball and Industry. Games have always been a good way to think about business and how to apply technical methods. A good look at the similarities. I largely agree, but this is more about the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Business Intelligence at Guess Inc
An intriguing case study of business intelligence at Guess. The concept of agility. Agile BI: Good but Not EnoughAt Guess Inc., BI Director Bruce Yen embraces mobility and fashion culture, but wants more from technology in…
From My Biased Coin
Allerton 2011
I woke up at an absurdly early hour this morning to get on a plane and go to the Allerton conference. I'm giving a talk this afternoon on Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (arxiv link) (joint work with Michael Goodrich). It'sEfficient…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accidental Creative
Todd Henry of Accidental Creative on Realism, Ambition and Hypocracy. See his excellent book: The Accidental Creative.
From BLOG@CACM
The U.K. Is Taking Steps to Improve Computing Education in Schools
The United Kingdom is stepping up its efforts to improve computing education in schools.
From BLOG@CACM
Somebody
Stanford University has very visibly started pushing mass teaching in AI, machine learning, and databases.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wallet
An overview of the recent Google Wallet rollout. It is still early, but we will start to see more phone based payment systems. The future will be a collection of location, payment and shopper interaction. All leading to richer…
From Computational Complexity
A candidate for a new Millenium Problem
In a prior post I wrote that the Erdos-Turan Conjecture should be a Millennium problem. Today I am going to (1) suggest a generalization of the Erdos-Turan Conjecture should be a Millennium problem instead, and also suggesthere…