Communications of the ACM
Grades In
The grades are in for CS 124. Hooray!Interesting trend : freshmen, who make up a small fraction of the class, are highly over
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Who Likes Change?
In the HBR: No one, really, but how can they be involved in determining real change? Good overview piece, but I would add that a good simulation of the decision...I-Corps Sites Program Proposals Due July 1
Transitioning Research into the Marketplace: NSF Funding Opportunity for Academic Institutions Engaged in Entrepreneurship The National Science Foundation has developed...National Science Foundation says No
Science’s Jeffrey Mervis is reporting that The National Science Foundation (NSF) is saying No to the Chair of the House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology...
Bluetooth-Controlled Door Lock
Here is a new lock that you can control via Bluetooth and an iPhone app. That's pretty cool, and I can imagine all sorts of reasons to get one of those. But I'm...
SAP’s UX strategy
SAP customers are increasingly telling the company that user experience (UX) is the differentiator, not features and functions, starts the introduction to SAP’s...Graduate Student Traps
Can we help avoid parallel repetition of mistakes? Irit Dinur has recently again shown a wonderful skill at re-conceptualizing an area that had seemingly been well...New in Google Plus
Google's social network lets Google+ get smarter. In Technology Review. I have used it only sparingly for a few years, but I know many groups that are enthusiastic...Surprise in Innovation
Correspondent Michael Schrage in the HBR Blog. He talks reactive and proactive surprise. Ans how the difference can pay big dividends. With the example of DARPA...Future Packaging
IDEO produces some interesting package designs of the future. " ... To a large extent, packaging mediates our experience with the world, probably more than any...Marketing, Advertising and Big Data
Big Data and Marketing: " ... Luminar, PubMatic and Lotame Solutions Inc. are living proof that marketing and advertising are two of the killer applications for...Random Hacks a Great Success for Students
Great experience! Provided teamwork for all of us! It made us work super hard! Really Fun!” exclaimed Isabel, age 11. Fun and hard work are just the words teachers...Thinking Business Process Modeling
A long time interest. Here, ten points to think out before starting. " ... Most organizations understand how business process management (BPM) can generate long...Marketers and Gaming
In Fast Company: What Marketers can learn from Gaming. An interesting take that should be developed further. " ... Now marketers are discovering the “power of...White House “We the Geeks” Hangout on Grand Challenges
Tomorrow, May 16, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, watch the first ‘We the Geeks” Hangout on WhiteHouse.gov and on the White House Google+ page. On May 16th, the White House is...
In Which I Am Tempted to Move to California
Blog posts have been sparse lately: I have been traveling. Last week I spent five days in Palo Alto, California. The visit was primarily for the Anita Borg Institute...Some thoughts on “cybersecurity” professionalization and education
[I was recently asked for some thoughts on the issues of professionalization and education of people working in cyber security. I realize I have been asked this...USACM Comments on Proposed US-EU Trade Agreement
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council submitted its public comment to the U.S. Trade Representative outlining three important intellectual property principles for...Supply Shock
A concept I had not heard in quite a while. How does 'supply shock' spread through a system and influence costs and inventory and markets? Would like to see...Spicy Foods
An area we examined in the sensory realm. In particular as a branding experiment, the Tabasco brand mentioned took a very long time to extend its reach. Now...Feigenbaum Wins IEEE Pioneer Awrd
Edward Feigenbaum, known as the father of expert systems, Stanford Professor Emeritus, has been awarded the Computer Society Pioneer Award. We consulted with...
Computer Science: Catch Them Early
05.16.2013Informatics education for primary and secondary schools
CHI 2013 in Paris: A Personal Review of the Conference
05.06.2013In this short report I offer some reflections on the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems …
The Role of HyperCard in Today's World
04.30.2013HyperCard is an end-user programming tool from the 1990's. A new version that runs on most modern platforms raises the …