Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
NoSQL or NoJoin?
Several major players built alternatives to conventional database systems: Google created BigTable, Amazon built Dynamo and Facebook initiated Cassandra. There...
From Computational Complexity
The Lefthanded Latino Lesbians in Algebraic Topology Workshop
There was a Women in Theory Workshop at Princeton From June 19-23. ***SORELLE***, who was there, has some intelligent and interesting things to say about it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Are Your Twitter Followers?
GigaOhm does a good job providing a case study of how to best understand your Twitter followers. This starts to answer a question I have had recently: Just who...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Even the Tech Sophisticated get Phished
A cautionary tale about password use. Cory Doctorow gets Phished. Cory Doctorow: Persistence Pays Parasites
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Label
UPI article on the increasing use of private label by cost conscious consumers. Useful statistics.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 28
July 1 Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on using cloud computing for federal information technology needs. 10...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do we have to make computer science cool again?
I have been told that once upon a time the ISTE conference (back when it was still called NECC) had a lot of computer science education content. That
From Wild WebMink
? Unexpected Harm
Sitting straight ‘bad for backs’ Somehow my body had already worked out that 135
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Conversations at ISTE
Yesterday was more or less the opening of ISTE. These conference are sort of interesting in that they start gradually. Wednesday ISTE will end somewhat abruptly...
From Schneier on Security
Third SHB Workshop
I'm at SHB 2010, the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, at Cambridge University. This is a two-day gathering of computer securityprogram...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen and McKinsey Social Venture
A joint venture that links several groups I know well: " ... Nielsen and management consultancy McKinsey & Company have formed a joint venture to help clients improve...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR 2010 and SimInt 2010
I’m looking forward to attending SIGIR 2010 in a few weeks and particularly to the SimInt 2010 Workshop on the Automated Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Moshe Vardi on
I notice that CACM Editor-in-Chief Moshe Vardi’s letter in the July 2010 issue of CACM speaks to what he calls “Hypercriticality,” and cites my post of May 4 here...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science Is More Than Just Programming
I have just finished leading a three week workshop for faculty and grad students from the humanities. The topic was serious (digital) games for research and pedagogy...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 27 June 2010
Posting early this week as I hope to have more timely stuff to write about as the week goes on. I
From The Eponymous Pickle
StoreFrontBackTalk
I often quote the StoreFrontBacktalk site. Evan Schuman does a great job tracking the technologies that continue to change the world of retail and E-commerce.some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Item Search with Xyggy
I received this recently, just started to take a look at it, intriguing paradigm: " ... Thank-you for the post on Bayesian Information Retrieval .. The Xyggy technology...
From Wild WebMink
? Drawing A Crowd
Open World Forum 2010 – Agenda This year’s Open World Forum has a packed and scorching hot agenda and I’m honored to be chairing the opening state-of-the-union...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pepsi and the Next FourSquare
Have examined packages like Foursquare and there are some fundamental problems with their use for marketing plays. Enterprises like Pepsi are trying to influence...
From The Eponymous Pickle