acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Blogroll


bg-corner

Book: This is Service Design Thinking
From Putting People First

Book: This is Service Design Thinking

This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases by Jakob Schneider and Marc Stickdorn Book Industry Services (BIS) 16 Dec 2010 Hardcover, 376 pages Publisher’s...

Experientia collaborates with top Korean university on supporting human-centred design
From Putting People First

Experientia collaborates with top Korean university on supporting human-centred design

Experientia, the international user experience design consultancy, has signed a five-year research and education collaboration agreement with the Design and Human...

Numbers Rule Your World
From The Eponymous Pickle

Numbers Rule Your World

I have not read the Numbers Rule Your World book yet, but here is the associated blog.   Covers lots of interesting related topics.

I AM OFFLINE! On Email Sabbatical from December 9
From Apophenia

I AM OFFLINE! On Email Sabbatical from December 9

I am offline, taking a deeply needed break while traveling. During the duration of my break, no email will be received by my computer. All email sent to me during...

Mobile Strategy a Must for Retailers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mobile Strategy a Must for Retailers

Obvious but good piece in Computerworld.  The most savvy players in retail already understand it.  As shoppers are armed with sensors,  web connectivity, universal...

CS&IT Workshops
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CS&IT Workshops

Some of the most popular activities at CS&IT conferences in past years have been mini-workshop sessions - in-depth, hands-on sessions where attendees could learn...

? The Non-Practicing Entity Defence
From Wild WebMink

? The Non-Practicing Entity Defence

@webminkSimon Phipps A patent troll that's made a few inventors rich is still a patent troll. December 8, 2010 22:16 via webRetweetReply

A taxonomy for the suppression of dissent
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

A taxonomy for the suppression of dissent

Unless you live under a rock, you have heard about Wikileaks. Along with several newspapers, Wikileaks has been releasing confidential diplomatic documents for...

Never Let the Terrorists Know How We're Storing Road Salt
From Schneier on Security

Never Let the Terrorists Know How We're Storing Road Salt

This seems not to be a joke: The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the state after it refused to release the construction plans for a...

Social innovation is our motivation
From Putting People First

Social innovation is our motivation

Sarah Drummond, one half of Scotland based dynamic duo Snook, presents a case study about the implications and challenges of using Service Design for Social Innovation...

Ken Banks on technology, anthropology, conservation and development
From Putting People First

Ken Banks on technology, anthropology, conservation and development

In Mobile Message, a new series of blog posts for Nat Geo News Watch starting today, innovator, anthropologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Ken Banks...

Interview with Mike Kuniavsky, author of
From Putting People First

Interview with Mike Kuniavsky, author of

David Bevans of Morgan Kaufmann Publishers interviewed Mike Kuniavsky, writer, designer, researcher and entrepreneur and co-founder of both ThingM, an electronic...

Linkedin and Professional Presence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linkedin and Professional Presence

In Adage: Agree to the basic premise.  There should be a clear distinction between personal presence and professional interaction.   Muddling the two together hurts...

Marketing Hub Reports first Win
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marketing Hub Reports first Win

In the local press: the establishment of Cincinnati, Ohio as a marketing hub moves ahead with the movement of an agency here.

My Last Exams Ever (Hopefully)
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

My Last Exams Ever (Hopefully)

This week I've been very busy with my written comprehensive exams.  These exams are one of the last PhD requirements I have to worry about before the thesis proposal...

Sane Comments on Terrorism
From Schneier on Security

Sane Comments on Terrorism

From Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center: Ultimately, Leiter said, it'll be the "quiet, confident resilience" of Americans after...

Four Key Concepts of Computer Programming
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Four Key Concepts of Computer Programming

Last week Rob Miles who is taller than I am, has more hair than I do and has an English accent all of which indicate he is probably a lot smarter than I am left...

Brands as Media
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brands as Media

Dave Knox presents: Brands as Media at the Adage conference.  he writes: " ....

Historic Platform Shift
From The Eponymous Pickle

Historic Platform Shift

Smartphones, Tablets to overtake PCs in the next 18 months.  In Computerworld. 

What are Scientists Reading
From The Eponymous Pickle

What are Scientists Reading

I had noticed when Springer started experimenting with letting readers look inside their vast library of excellent technical books online.  Now they have a free...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account