Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2009
From CSDiary
Are There 20 Top-10 CS Departments?
I’m on board a Delta flight bound for Pittsburgh right now. My curiosity got the best of me and so I plunked down some money (too much, really) to try out the airline’s new-ish inflight wifi service. My first in-flight blog entry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nature of Private Label Gains
This piece suggests that they have been underway for a long time and cannot be blamed on the recession. Also useful comments. A big challenge for major label CPG.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart to Double Solar Power
Wal-Mart is placing solar panels on their store roofs. Great idea and very good marketing.
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
Thanks to Jeff Dalton for alerting me to SIGIR 2009 announcing the lists of accepted papers and posters. As Jon Elsas points out, the authorship looks quite different this year than from previous years, with industry showing …
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
Thanks to Jeff Dalton for alerting me to SIGIR 2009 announcing the lists of accepted papers and posters. As Jon Elsas points out, the authorship looks quite different this year than from previous years, with industry showing …
From The Noisy Channel
Google Profiles: Nice Idea, Meh Execution
The top story on Techmeme is the new push Google is making around profiles. You can get a sense of the reactions from links to the official Google post. Here is a sampling:
Don
From The Noisy Channel
Google Profiles: Nice Idea, Meh Execution
The top story on Techmeme is the new push Google is making around profiles. You can get a sense of the reactions from links to the official Google post. Here is a sampling:
Don
From BLOG@CACM
Designing Effective Security Warnings
How do we create effective security warnings that people don't just swat away? Here, I report on one line of research that examines this question.
From BLOG@CACM
Security Education Can Really Work (but Only If It's Done Right)
Although many people in computer security think that user education is hopeless, security education can really work, but only if it's done right. I report on a successful line of research looking at how to educate people to protect…
From CSDiary
CMU Places 12th in World, 3rd in North America, at ACM Programming Contest
The CMU team of Tom Conerly (CS sophomore), Celestine Lau (ECE senior), and Alan Pierce (CS sophomore) placed 12th overall, 3rd in North America, in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. The final results for…
From insideHPC
Lustre User Group Keynote + Lustre Roadmap
The Sun HPC Watercooler has pointed us to the keynote presentation video from the Lustre User Group meeting in Sausalito, CA.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Trade Commission Issues Proposed Breach Notification Rule
On April 16 the Federal Trade Commission issued a proposed rule requiring entities to notify consumers in the event that the security of their electronic health information is breached. The FTC is seeking public comment between…
From The Eponymous Pickle
WolframAlpha Briefing
Attended the WolframAlpha briefing today, which consisted of an overview by Steven Wolfram and his demonstration of his very ambitious interactive knowledge system. The system will be publicly released free in a few weeks.You…
From Apophenia
"Living and Learning with Social Media"
Over the weekend, I gave a talk at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. I have made a crib of the talk available for anyone who might find it valuable: "Living and Learning with Social Media" Abstract…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quantum databases: what are they good for?
Hu et al. just posted An efficient quantum search engine on unsorted database. They refer to an older paper by Patel (2001), Quantum database search can do without sorting. Apparently without any data structure or preprocessing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia and Augmented Reality
Short piece on augmented reality that Nokia is developing for cell phones. The potential retail applications are considerable. I also am looking for the inclusion of abstract data and analytical sensor applications.
From The Eponymous Pickle
So What is a Quick Trip?
Herb Sorensen of TNS Sorensen covers the topic of a quick trip in grocery retail in a recent post. This is covered in more detail in his forthcoming book: Inside the Mind of the Shopper ..., which I have now read in preprint…
From The Noisy Channel
Google Similar Images: A Glitch?
After my post yesterday about Google’s new image similarity search, a colleague sent me this link:
Oops! But, more importantly, it argues strongly that Google isn’t just using image content to perform the similarity search.…From The Noisy Channel
Google Similar Images: A Glitch?
After my post yesterday about Google’s new image similarity search, a colleague sent me this link:
Oops! But, more importantly, it argues strongly that Google isn’t just using image content to perform the similarity search.…From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-21
From insideHPC
Reg open for accelerators in HPC
A quickie from NCSA Registration is now open for the Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC’09), which will be held July 27-31, 2009, in Urbana, Illinois. SAAHPC’09 will bring developers of…
From insideHPC
SiCortex revises green performance index, intros
Today HPC vendor SiCortex revised its Green Computing Performance Index (GCPI, which we first covered when it was announced back in November) based on what it referred to as
From The Noisy Channel
Advertorials Preferred To Ads?
From “Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads” in eMarketer: Compared with banner ads, pop-up ads, e-mail offers and sponsored links, articles that include brand information were most likely to lead US Internet users to read
From The Noisy Channel
Advertorials Preferred To Ads?
From “Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads” in eMarketer: Compared with banner ads, pop-up ads, e-mail offers and sponsored links, articles that include brand information were most likely to lead US Internet users to read
From insideHPC
Sun Revamps HPC
Sun has revamped their public HPC website.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paul Gillin on RSS Feeds
Some quarters have been talking about Twitter replacing syndication feeds like RSS. Paul Gillin makes the case that they are still of value. I agree.
From Apophenia
What are your information needs? (Knight Commission seeks feedback)
What information do Americans need to accomplish the personal goals and to be effective citizens in our democracy? How are they getting their news and information? And what would they do to improve the quality of news and information…
From insideHPC
NASA Ames moves from Sun to SpectraLogic, cuts silos by
Found at Computerworld.com NASA’s Ames Research Center, announced today that it has consolidated its tape libraries from 10 silos to two, allowing it to reclaim 1,400 square feet of floor space while increasing its data archive…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA releases OpenCL driver for early access
Yesterday NVIDIA announced the release of an OpenCL driver and SDK for developers in its early access program (we’ve covered OpenCL before in lots of places; here is the 1.0 spec announcement) NVIDIA Corporation, the inventor…
From The Noisy Channel
Google: News Timeline
The other day, when I was blogging about Google’s news cluster timelines, I lamented their lack of a unified approach towards visualizing news over time. Their launch of Google News Timeline thus gives mixed feelings: it’s a…