Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
January 2016
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
PhD: On Hold
I've sent in the forms. I've updated my committee. The deed is done.My PhD is on hold.
From Schneier on Security
Mac OS X, iOS, and Flash Had the Most Discovered Vulnerabilities in 2015
Interesting analysis: Which software had the most publicly disclosed vulnerabilities this year? The winner is none other than Apple's Mac OS X, with 384 vulnerabilities. The runner-up? Apple's iOS, with 375 vulnerabilities. Rounding…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Board of Directors Election (part 1)
These are exciting times for CSTA, as we prepare to launch a new website as well as initiatives centered on professional development, advocacy and equity. Why not take this opportunity to help shape the future of the organization…
From insideHPC
TACC Joins iRODS Consortium
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced it has joined the iRODS Partner Program known as the iRODS Consortium.
The post TACC Joins iRODS Consortium appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Brain Science and Computer Science- Where Discovery Meets Invention
Contributions to this post were made by Gregory Hager, Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and Martin Weiner, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Revisiting “Holy Fire” (Bruce Sterling, 1996)
Bruce Sterling in a famous scifi novelist. One of his most celebrated novels was written 20 years ago: Holy Fire. It is a near-future novel, set in the late XXIst century. Sterling set it about a century in the future from the…
From XRDS
How will 2016 look like? By XRDS blog staff!
Here are XRDS we keep on meditating over 2015 by looking forward at what 2016 will bring, here’s some of our bloggers opinions of what the next 3.154e+7 seconds might have entailed for Computer Science: In 2016, Virtual Reality…
From Computational Complexity
A question in Formal Lang Theory about Size of Desc of Languages.
(This post is inspired by me thinking more about this blog entry and this paper.) Upper bounds on n are really O(n). Lower bounds of f(n) are really Omega(f(n)) DPDA = Deterministic Push Down Automata NDFA = Nondet. Finite…
From insideHPC
Video: A Brief Introduction to OpenFabrics
Sean Hefty from Intel presented this talk at the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15. "OpenFabrics Interfaces (OFI) is a framework focused on exporting fabric communication services to applications. OFI is best described as…
From Putting People First
[New publication] The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit
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The Hackable City: A Research Manifesto and Design Toolkit Authors – Cristina Ampatzidou (University of Amsterdam / University of Groningen) – Matthijs Bouw (One Architecture) – Froukje van de Klundert (University of Amsterdam)…
From insideHPC
DDN Storage Enables NCAR to Advance Weather and Climate Science
Today DDN announced that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has selected DDN’s new SFA14K high-performance hyper-converged storage platform to drive the performance and deliver the capacity needed for scientific…
From insideHPC
HiPEAC16 Conference Returns to Prague January 18-20
The HiPEAC16 High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation conference returns to Prague next week. With three keynote talks, 33 workshops, nine tutorials, and 37 papers, the three-day conference takes place January…
From Putting People First
Introducing Humans, a truly human-centered social networking app
Fabien Girardin of the Near Future Laboratory today launched Humans, an app “that offers a way to rationally manage too many social media contacts and slows down the consumption of status updates, tweets, selfies, and photos …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing and Research Driven by Data
Overview of the concept and a discussion. I would add, more real time oriented data linked to decisions. Also seeking out not only the data, but patterns that can be derived from data. What marketing and research must do differently…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Law Enforcement Using Threat Scores
In the WaPo: Surveillance and approach being directed by 'threat score'. Crime Prediction? A very simple and natural approach to sort out attention. But the vast amount of data being gathered and how the data is being leveraged…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Completely On-Demand Economy: Purple
In GigaOM:" .... The “gig economy” is taking some knocks this month. But a new startup called Purple is showing us why on-demand labor is actually headed for a boom–no matter what employees or regulators say .... The inconvenient…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Leadership
In the HBR: Examples of creative innovation leadership. From IDEO and elsewhere.
From BLOG@CACM
The Inverse Lake Wobegon Effect
Where we take a sample from a privileged group, and assume that we know the population.
From insideHPC
NCAR Selects SGI Supercomputer for Advanced Modeling and Research
Today the National Center for Atmospheric Research announced that it has selected SGI to build one of the world’s most advanced compute systems used to develop models for predicting the impact of climate change and severe weather…
From Schneier on Security
IT Security and the Normalization of Deviance
Professional pilot Ron Rapp has written a fascinating article on a 2014 Gulfstream plane that crashed on takeoff. The accident was 100% human error and entirely preventable -- the pilots ignored procedures and checklists and…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 11 January 2016
I didn’t win PowerBall this weekend so it is back to school for me. BTW am I the only one who has been thinking about what sort of database is used to keep track of PowerBall tickets for the last several days? It will be interesting…
From Putting People First
How Eataly has redefined the third place to create a new customer experience
This short reflection on Eataly by Sergio Gutierrez, Ankur Johar, Christian Lillo, Anjali Singh and and Sofia Sourtzis positions it as a “third place”. Ray Oldenburg introduced the concept of the third place in 1989 in his book…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM talks Watson at CES
From last weeks CES, some interesting details about projects and IBM background. Again, indications that quite an investment is being made. I am struck by the fact that the companies involved are not the largest ... continuing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Healthcare Signage Displays
Brought to my attention, useful resource.LG white Paper on healthcare digital displays ...In healthcare, digital signage displays are changing the way patients receive customer service and information. Download this whitepaper…
From insideHPC
COMSOL Multiphysics Comes to Rescale Cloud Simulation Platform
Today Comsol announced the availability of COMSOL Multiphysics software on the Rescale Cloud simulation platform. "For customers seeking HPC resources for bigger analyses, this important initiative with Rescale allows our users…
From insideHPC
Video: Intel Black Belt Discussion on HPC Code Modernization
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15, James Reinders hosts an Intel Black Belt discussion on Code Modernization. "Modern high performance computers are built with a combination of resources including:…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Supply Chains
A long thought of idea. Real time transparency.Supply Chain ManagementCompanies use connected devices for smarter supply chainsMajor companies including General Motors and Whirlpool are looking to the Internet of Things to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Visualization into a Science
Good piece on how data visualization was turned into a science by William S Cleveland and others. In particular making data visualization more concise, exact and paying attention to elements of human perception. Article hasSee…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and IOT: Sensors and Anaytics
Sensors and Analytics in the Internet of Things." ... Ajit Jaokar discusses data science and IoT: sensor data, real-time processing, cognitive computing, integration of IoT analytics with hardware, IoT’s impact on healthcare,…
From insideHPC
Video: Overcoming Storage Roadblocks in HPC Clouds
“The virtually infinite scale of cloud compute resources is now within easy reach from either existing network-attached or object-based storage. No longer is the location of your storage a roadblock to reaping the ease, timeliness…