Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2009
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Numerati
Just got to Stephen Baker's2008 book: The Numerati. Several people had pointed me to it. It is an overview of the advance of numerical methods since WWII. How improvements in the availability of data, power of computers and…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Must a professor grade his students?
On December 10th 2008, Denis G. Rancourt, a full professor in Physics at the University of Ottawa was banned from his campus. Why? Because he refused to grade students: Problems between university brass and Rancourt began eight…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surroundings Matter
In the Neuromarketing blog, a post on the meaning of context of surroundings with regards to behavior. Obvious in the sense of chaos resulting in more chaos in the form of vandalism and shoplifting, but it also implies more subtle…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watermarking Tools
In Plagiarism Today, a site I just discovered that covers online content, plagiarism and copyright issues, a detailed report on online watermarking tools. In a recent project I worked with a company that was attempting to aid…
From insideHPC
Star-P adds
This just in from Interactive Supercomputing today The Star-P imaging function library was developed with the help of Anona Labs, an Israeli software company specializing in advanced image processing technologies for interactive…
From insideHPC
Wired
I know we’re only a few days into 2009, but this is likely to me my favorite link of the year: an article at Wired.com that looks at supercomputing’s bad boys: That means Monday is HAL’s 17th birthday. Even though the reformed…
From insideHPC
SiCortex video in the Boston
There was an article in the Boston Globe last week about SiCortex. The web version features an interview with CEO Christopher Stone handling a node and pointing out the design features. I really like the video as a way to engage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Places of the Future
Fraunhofer Institute has put together some research in constructing a hotel room of the future. Marriott tried to do something that included lots of easy interconnectivity in a hotel room, so you could create your own heavenBrussels…
From Springenwerk Blog
IBM DB2 on the Mac with Ruby, Rails and Radiant
Last year ended with an amazing announcement: IBM DB2 for the Mac! I have worked with DB2 for years and it's a truly great database. Who would have thought that Big Brother would bring one of it's flagship products to the Mac…
From insideHPC
LSU High-End Visualization
The LSU Center for Computation and Technology has announced details of the 5th annual HIgh-End Visualization Workshop.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikinomics Blog
I see that the Wikinomics blog is up and running, with some interesting posts that expand their exploration of mass collaboration.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Empowering Students to Explore By Linking CS and Writing
As part of a recent discussion on the Rebooting Computing listserv Ursula Wolz made the following important observations about how to do effective outreach to K-12. We are posting her comments here with her permission.
TheBroadening…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ten Blogs for Bloggers
Ten blogs every Blogger should read in from Zero to SEO.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet and the Press
How does the internet weaken the press? By an existence proof, the local paper delivered to the door is getting thinner by the day.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How do I automatically lock myself out of Google Mail?
I want to be locked out of Google Mail if I spent more than X hours in a given day on email. Anyhow knows how to do it? Right now, I spend about two to three hours (as measured by rescuetime) on mail.google.com. Of course, not…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA snuggles up with 2
Found at Multicoreinfo.com The company
From insideHPC
HPC and
Josh Simons at Sun recently took a trip to ORNL to talk with their System Research Team about work that both organizations are doing with respect to virtualization in HPC. His full trip report is an interesting read. Uses for…
From insideHPC
Creative launches new
Their word, not mine. Anyway, Creative Technology (yup, the SoundBlaster people) made an announcement at CES last week about the launch of their new line of silicon processors, the ZiiLABS ZMS-05. The ZMS is a constellation of…
From insideHPC
AMD plans 1PF graphical supercomputer for interactive content
Many announcements came out of CES last week, but not many of them have anything to do with us. Which is why AMD CEO Dirk Meyer’s proclamation that he is building a 1 PF supercomputer destined to become part of the internet infrastructure…
From Putting People First
Book: Elsewhere, U.S.A.
Elsewhere, U.S.A. How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety by Dalton Conley Pantheon, Hardcover January 2009 Abstract Over the past three…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Phone Watches
Apparently there are a number of watch format devices that aim to replace smartphones. But as long as we use our fingers I wonder about their practicality. Above, the LG Watch phone, being shown at CES 2008.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roland Piquepaille Passes
UK correspondent Richard James informs me of the passing of emerging tech blogger Roland Piquepaille. I read much of what he read and he was an inspiration for tracking new technologies via a blog.
From insideHPC
Deadline approaches to apply for time on the
From HPCwire Scientists, engineers, and other U.S. researchers have until Jan. 15, 2009 (12:00 midnight local times) to apply for allocations of high-performance computer time and storage resources that are available through…
From Wild WebMink
Weekend link roundup on January 11
From CSDiary
Back in the USA, Time for PhD Admissions Decisions
I’ve just landed in Detroit, just one more short hop to get home. The visit to Taipei was both productive and fun. Lots of CMU faculty members were there: Lujo Bauer, Ed Clarke, Christos Faloutsos, Virgil Gligor, and Adrian Perrig…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Produce Interface
This post on a Danish interface for produce does not say a great deal, but I am glad that others are paying attention to retail interfaces around the world. Produce, because of its considerable variability, can be difficult…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bullet Graphs
A Perceptual Edge post about bullet graphs, which I have never used. Apparently these were designed to replace circular gauge type displays. In their simplest for they use a single measure and indicate where its value falls…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Gender and Race Issues in Computing
On several mailing lists that I monitor when the issue of gender and/or race is brought up there is a group that responds that any attempt to increase the percentage of women or underrepresented minorities in computing would …
From Putting People First
10 most common misconceptions about user experience design
Whitney Hess, an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant, asked some of the most influential and widely respected [USA] practitioners in UX (including Steve Baty, Mario Bourque, Dan Brown, Liz Danzico, Bill…
From CSDiary
CMU Students Cited by the CRA, NY Times
Well, I’m finally on my way home from Taipei. I’m on a layover right now in Osaka, Japan, awaiting the continuation of my flight back to the USA. While I’m here, I thought I would mention some of our undergrads who have made…