Literature roundup

It's been quite a while, skipping ahead to recent stuff:

• FreePint on Information Architecture Summit 2007
  
  
• Commuications of the ACM v50i5, Special issue ACM at 60: a look back in time. Some hightlights from that section and the rest of the issue.
  
  
  • Viewpoint: The rime of the ancyent programmer by Stephen B. Jenkins
    
  • Edmund Berkeley and the origins of ACM by Atsushi Akera
    
  • Sources for ACM history: what, where, why by Thomas Haigh
    
  • A history of the history of programming languages by Thomas J. (Tim) Bergin
    
  • Accessing the deep web by Bin He, Mitesh Patel, Zhen Zhang, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
    
  • Inside risks: The psychology of security by Bruce Schneier
  
  
  
• Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2007. A huge conference with tons of articles in the proceedings. If you can't find something interesting in here, then you just aren't looking. Some of the section headings include: Faces & bodies in interaction; Attention & interruption; Capturing life experiences; Shake, rattle and roll: new forms of input and output; Ubicomp tools; Mobile interaction; Navigation & interaction; Empirical studies of web interaction; Online representation of self; Collaboration at work; Tags, tagging & notetaking; Designing for specific cultures; Social network sharing.
  
  
  • Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media by Morgan Ames, Mor Naaman
    
  • Modeling and understanding students' off-task behavior in intelligent tutoring systems by Ryan S.J.d. Baker
    
  • Modeling the impact of shared visual information on collaborative reference by Darren Gergle, Carolyn P. Rose, Robert E. Kraut