Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Governance and Big Data
In SiliconAngle: Good introductory piece on the topic. How do you control the data and analyses you do with your big data?" ... The past week witnessed a number of major milestones in evolution of enterprise analytics across
…From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Learning From the Code Hunt Dashboard
This week I am in Redmond WA at a two day workshop around Code Hunt being run by Microsoft Research and the developers behind Code Hunt. After day one I can say I have learned a lot. I’ve been using Code Hunt with my honorsCode
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Gershenfeld on a New Digital Reality
Interesting Edge conversation with Neil Gershenfeld of MIT. We connected with him there a number of times in the early days of remote manufacture. That world is starting to mature. " ... ...Today, you can send a design to
…From Schneier on Security
National Academies Report on Bulk Intelligence Collection
In January, the National Academies of Science (NAS) released a report on the bulk collection of signals intelligence. Basically, a year previously President Obama tasked the Director of National Intelligence with assessing "the
…From Wild WebMink
Who Else Listens To Your TV?
Samsung’s Smart TV listens to everything you say all the time you have voice control enabled. No surprise there. But Samsung’s Terms warn that it’s likely to be sending all that audio to a service provider for analysis, rather
…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam
The Global City Teams Challenge, an initiative by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and US Ignite, is designed to advance the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies within a smart city / smart
…From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of February 9
February 11: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing titled “The Connected World: Examining the Internet of Things.” 10 a.m., 253 Russell Building February 12: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotional Targeting Board
Mediabrix announces an emotional targeting advisory board. From the neuromarketing buzz connections. An interesting move. Though I note there is no one on the board as yet to cover the big data analytics angle, which is essential
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Predictive HR
It has been common to use data analytics in HR for years. Here in Bloomberg, predicting when you are going to quit your job. Some interesting details.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Intelligence and Genetic Codes
Addressing the recipe's that convert codes to tasks.Machine Intelligence Cracks Genetic ControlsEvery cell in your body reads the same genome, the DNA-encoded instruction set that builds proteins. But your cells couldn’t be more
…From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 9 February 2015
I’m back in Redmond WA today. First time in over three years I have been here. I expect it to feel different as a visitor after being hear many times as an employee in the past. My time here this time is with the CodeHunt team
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Analytics is Critical
Says Cisco. I agree. I would slightly alter it and say 'as real-time as necessary'. But what is necessary is changing rapidly. Not too long ago data would available weekly, now that is not fine enough. But we never knew
…From The Eponymous Pickle
We Need to Control Our Data
Artificial Intelligence Is Doomed if We Don't Control Our DataThis model is why the discussion about individuals selling their personal data is missing the point: ‘How much money is your data worth?' ‘Are you just like any data
…From Computational Complexity
Pros and Cons of students being wikiheads
A wikihead is someone who learns things from the web (not necc. Wikipedia) but either learns things that are not correct or misinterprets them. I've also heard the term webhead but thats ambigous since it also refers to fans
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tradeoff Analytics Services
Have been examining some of the Watson services announced last week. These are available free (with limited amounts of data) with registration on the Bluemix cloud services. One that intrigued me was tradeoff analytics. Implementing
…From Computer Science Teacher – Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Recursion – Love it or hate it?
The following was posted to the AP CS Facebook page yesterday with the question "What would the answer be?" Things went along just fine for 3 replies of people giving the answer (0123456) until some troublemaker (who would be
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing with the Gamification of Tasks
Notes on Choosing Tasks in a Job to Improve or Replace with Gamification (Published elsewhere) When doing business process modeling (BPM) you connect a group of tasks that comprise a job, to fit together in sequence or in parallel
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Rolling out VR Demo
In Engadget: Another entry into the VR space. Available for demonstration this week. Head mounted displays that are not meant to be unobtrusive. Focused, perhaps very low volume business applications.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Data Visualization with Legos
Interesting means of teaching incremental representation of data. I have seen lots of bad visualization in journalism lately. I would hope they would be able to abstract this way without Legos. But whatever it takes.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Resolving Time Travel Paradoxes
In the SciAm: Not really a technological issue as yet, but an interesting logical point about science and time.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forecasting the Flu
In the CACM: We did sensor work some time ago that addressed bioterror forecasting. This is related work that leverages social networks. " ... A research team at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) says it has
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and the Internet of Things
In O'Reilly: Big Data and IoT. Data and as we have been seeing, the architecture to support that data. A four dimensional dilemma:" ... The Internet of Things (IoT) has a data problem. Well, four data problems. Walking theWhat
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Scarab Sensor Array
I like the idea of having multiple sensors in a device. It would be interesting to see a chart of what is hard to sense effectively, and what the technology obstacles are for each component. And based on the sensors available
…From The Eponymous Pickle
KNext
Jim Spohrer Writes about KNext:Len Schubert (U Rochester) has developed KNEXT http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~schubert/projects/world-knowledge-mining.html -- more triples than ConceptNet, and apparently designed with inference
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayesian Plumbing under Uncertainty
Good short piece on the potential for using Bayesian networks to simulate aspecst of the Internet of things (IOT). The open question on many of these kinds of problems is: What is the architecture, current or planned, of the
…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Abstraction Methods
Instructive piece on methods in use today:In February IEEE Computing Now:An Anarchy of Methods: Current Trends in How Intelligence Is Abstracted in AI ... How should intelligence be abstracted in AI research? Which subfields,
…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: How to Fish for Squid
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife explains how to fish for squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing on Film
Another look at the recent Turing film. Some interesting points. Did he invent the computer? Well not the general purpose ones we expect today. " ..... The movie’s designers embellished the machine a bit by using bright red
…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NAE Elects CCC Council Member Daniela Rus!
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 67 new members and 12 foreign members. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Daniela Rus is one of the newly elected members. Daniela is a Professor of Electrical
…From Don't Panic
Are static typing and functional programming winning?
Inspired by a reddit discussion, I decided to create short blog post to ask two questions:
- Is static typing winning?
- Is functional programming winning?