Results tagged “CACM” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

Phillip G. Armour discusses is the nature of people in groups. There are people (often leaders of some sort) whose behavior sets the tone for the whole group.

Are you subject to lots of clichés? Are you a frequent user of clichés? Be careful. Phillip G Armour writes about this.

It's a familiar refrain, once you get into the business world far enough. "Don't conufse technology with business solutions, focusing instead on what users value most - information."

There is an interesting pair of articles that focus on collaboration in the April 2008 Communications of the ACM. And one of them leads to even more interesting stuff.

There is a promising-sounding article in the February 2008 Communications of the ACM, Sharing Knowledge, by Peter Marks, Peter Polak, Scott McCoy, and Dennis Galletta.

There was another interesting article in the November 2007 Communications of the ACM, "What Motivates Wikipedians" by Oded Nov. Is there a connection to the larger question of motivation in wikis?

Here are a couple lists of social networking and social communications technologies I've come across recently.

How bad / good is the discipline IT project management? Standish Group reports 67% failure rate. A new article in Communications of the ACM report 67% success rate. Isn't that still not good enough?

Phillip G. Armour's June 2007 quarterly column on The Business of Software in Communications of the ACM was Twenty Percent: Planning to fail on software projects. Good stuff!

The July Communications of the ACM has an interesting article on Collaborative Structuring: Organizing Document Repositories Effectively and Efficiently (full text for members only) by Harris Wu and Michael Gordon.

Another article in the February Communications of the ACM gives us a study of participation in online communities. The results seem obvious, but I haven't seen people talk about them in this way.

The just-arrived copy of Communications of the ACM has an article on the development of e-mail spam and methods that are used to fight it. It's interesting from the perspective of the various machine learning techniques they describe - and how spammers respond to each tactic.

Hai Zhuge has an article on "Discovery of Knowledge Flow in Science" in the May 2006 issue of Communications of the ACM. Zhuge focuses on the scientific citation network that is a familiar topic in academic circles, but the concept applies anywhere you can find citations, such as in blogs.

Does spell-checking software need a warning label? The answer is, "yes." I've known this for a long time, but then I've also made the errors this article talks about. Based on their survey of undergraduate and graduate students, people put much more confidence in grammar- and spell-checking software than they should.

The latest Communications of the ACM has a great set of articles on Personal Information Management. I provide a rather detailed review of the collection, as the topic interests me greatly.

An article in CACM highlights how an expert locator is used at a software firm, highlighting some expected and some surprising uses.

Short descriptions of the set of articles on blogging in the December 2004 Communications of the ACM.