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 The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping the Cities of the Mind
Thoughts about how network connections create cities of the mind. Via Stan Dyck. Looking at an enterprise project that could feed from this concept as well. Physical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Profitability by Category
Intriguing writeup about profitability by product category. Oil and gas makes about 6 percent, far down the list, 114th out of 215.
From Computational Complexity
President Regan (not Reagan)
Whose name (in firstname lastname form) appeared most often in the pages of Newsweek in the 1970's? Is it---? Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ken Regan...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snap! by Lectora
Announced today, a $99 package Snap! by Lectora, a rapid development elearning environment that is an add-in to Powerpoint. I was particularly impressed by the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Elliott Masie Speaks
At the Trivantis Lectora 2011 Users conference today learning expert and futurist Elliott Masie spoke about the rapidly changing world of learning. First time I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ads Moving to Online Video
In Clickz: Consumer package goods dollars are continuing to move to online video from TV. " ... Brand advertisers are continuing to divert ad spend away from broadcast...
From Geeking with Greg
Taking small steps toward personalized search
Some very useful lessons in this work in a recent WSDM 2011 conference, "Personalizing Web Search using Long Term Browsing History" (PDF).First, they focused on...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Has the Cybersecurity Logjam Broke?
Congress has been making noise about passing comprehensive cybersecurity legislation for most of the last two years, prompted in part by the Obama Administration's...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Teaching How to Think Computationally
One of my three main objectives for this year's "Introduction to Computers for Arts and Social Sciences" course is to teach the class how to think computationally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blogger Hiccups
Blogger has been down for over 24 hours. Google is working on it and I can post again, but it seems posts from yesterday have still not been restored. Please...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ARF Releases Neuromarketing Review
Have been looking forward to this: ARF Reveals Results from Neuromarketing ReviewUS
From Schneier on Security
Interview with Me About the Sony Hack
These are what I get for giving interviews when I'm in a bad mood. For the record, I think Sony did a terrible job with its customers' security. I also think...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
University Computer Science Faculty Blogs
I read a lot of blogs. Perhaps too many. But there are a few blogs I could not do without. I thought I might do a series of recommendations on different types of...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Needing to Be Vigilant About Gender Issues
Having women in the department is just step one. But then there is the issue of how teaching assignments are distributed. There I was, idly looking over my department's...
From Wild WebMink
? Wormtongue
As Glyn Moody discussed yesterday, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) annual report on “piracy” is out. I hate that usage – the word “piracy” refers to about...
From Wild WebMink
? A Chain Of Cause And Effect
Overinstaller Awareness Day Excellent and insightful comments from SSRC on the BSA’s as-poor-as-you’d-expect 2010 report. I just hope that there are legislators...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Air Force Seeking
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has announced a new funding opportunity in “transformational computing for aerospace science and engineering”...
From Schneier on Security
Drugging People and Then Robbing Them
This is a pretty scary criminal tactic from Turkey. Burglars dress up as doctors, and ring doorbells handing out pills under some pretense or another. They're...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog