acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Blogroll


bg-corner

Vinimaya Virtual Supplier Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

Vinimaya Virtual Supplier Network

I have now had a couple of in-depth conversations with the local company Vinimaya. Very impressive and particularly simple and cost effective solutions to company...

Yet Another Way to Sneak Liquids onto an Airplane
From Schneier on Security

Yet Another Way to Sneak Liquids onto an Airplane

Coffee cup disguised as a camera lens.

Tesco Mobile Shopping App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesco Mobile Shopping App

In the UK MarketingWeek. Tesco is always innovative. In particular interesting is their motivation for bypassing some more popular smartphone platforms:"Tesco...

Airline Booking Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Airline Booking Augmented Reality

Metaio sends along this simple application of augmented reality in travel services: ' .. The air transport IT specialist, SITA and Malaysia Airlines have developed...

More Brain Scans to Detect Future Terrorists
From Schneier on Security

More Brain Scans to Detect Future Terrorists

Worked well in a test: For the first time, the Northwestern researchers used the P300 testing in a mock terrorism scenario in which the subjects are planning,More...

Silverlight 4 XNA Platformer Level Editor for Windows Phone 7
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Silverlight 4 XNA Platformer Level Editor for Windows Phone 7

Interesting in developing games for the Windows Phone 7? David Rousset has just finished a complete series of blog posts explaining a demo he

University Faculty Can Help with K-12!
From Computer Science Teachers Association

University Faculty Can Help with K-12!

I think many of us (including faculty at liberal arts colleges) hold a pretty outdated view of what goes on in different kinds of institutions. We tend to think...

Mass Customization Friday
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mass Customization Friday

An interesting mass customization event will be held today on Facebook. They are described at the link. " ... 20 startups in the mass customization space will...

Google Small Business Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Small Business Blog

Just started up, the Google Small Business Blog. " ... a central hub that brings together all the information about our products, features and projects of specific...

? CWUK Blog Changes
From Wild WebMink

? CWUK Blog Changes

Small administrative note: ComputerWorldUK switched over to a much more attractive design last night, and at the same time switched their blogging platform to Moveable...

10 Most Popular Posts June and July 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

10 Most Popular Posts June and July 2010

It

Crowd Wisdom in Small Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crowd Wisdom in Small Business

A colleage recently talk to me about projects we had proposed using crowd wisdom. A good NYT article on the use of 'Wisdom of the Crowd' plays, broadly defined...

Gulf Spill's Lessons for Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gulf Spill's Lessons for Robotics

In IEEE Spectrum: A number of strategic and tactical lessons learned for robotics during the Gulf spill.

Ferrari Quits Barcode Logo
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ferrari Quits Barcode Logo

It was one of the major claims in Martin Lindstrom's book: Buyology that the tobacco industry was using subliminal triggers in ads, even when explicit brand logos...

NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum
From Schneier on Security

NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum

Most people might not be aware of it, but there's a National Cryptologic Museum at Ft. Meade, at NSA Headquarters. It's hard to know its exact relationship with...

The strategic arc of interaction design
From Putting People First

The strategic arc of interaction design

Steve Baty, principal at Meld Studios and vice president of IxDA, argues in a long article on Core77 that interaction designers now have the opportunity to move...

Design for social change and the museum
From Putting People First

Design for social change and the museum

From April 12 through April 14, 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at Rockefeller Foundation

Google Drops Wave
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Drops Wave

In a surprising development Google has decided to drop its Wave social-collaborative capability by year's end. Some of the functionality will be included in other...

Context Aware Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Context Aware Computing

In the August IEEE Computer an issue devoted to Context Aware Computing. Including a good video. So what is it and why does it matter far beyond just your location...

CS Education Gets Congressional Attention
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CS Education Gets Congressional Attention

Last week was a huge one for computer science education in the Nation's Capital. Congressmen from both parties introduced two pieces of legislation -- The Computer...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account