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 Eponymous Pickle
Smartphone with Augmented Reality
A concept we played with for some time. Is it a better wat to engage, to buy? How does it change the very nature of advertising? Overlaying marketing with your mobile reality. We primarily studied it on venues like cart…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Benchmarking Principal Engineer at Dell in Austin
Dell in Austin is seeking an HPC Benchmarking Principal Engineer in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: HPC Benchmarking Principal Engineer at Dell in Austin appeared first on insideHPC.
From Putting People First
Why we need better UI in patient-used medical devices
With patients increasingly treating themselves at home, often using specialist equipment, the chance of use errors increases, and the ensuing results can be deadly. User Interfaces (UI) have a key role to play in reducing the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Robots Wash the Dishes
What is going on at MIT's CSAIL? Long after we visited during the AI explosion. Moving towards a better understanding of the real world, and using that to forward simulate what decisions will result in. And knowing the forecasting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explaining Quantum Computing
I have been challenged several times recently to explain the how and why of quantum computing. Just discovered this video that is useful. Also from a TEDX talk. All from a broader piece in the Guardian. But no mention of…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ink Pasta
Squid ink pasta is not hard to make, and is a really good side for a wide variety of fish recipes. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From Schneier on Security
Podcast Interview with Me
The Technoskeptic has posted a good interview with me on its website. Normally it charges for its content, but this interview is available for free....
From insideHPC
NSF’s iPlant Rebrands to CyVerse, Provides Data Management and Computation Across Scientific Disciplines
The National Science Foundation’s premier data management platform for the life sciences has rebranded, shedding the project’s original label of iPlant Collaborative and donning the new name CyVerse. The rebrand emphasizes the…
From Schneier on Security
"How Stories Deceive"
Fascinating New Yorker article about Samantha Azzopardi, serial con artist and deceiver. The article is really about how our brains allow stories to deceive us: Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2016 AP Computer Science Principles Scholarship Programs
A lot of people are looking for help getting professional development. I saw this on the CSTA mailing list and thought I should post it for people who have have missed it. Or who go searching for things like it later as they …
From insideHPC
Video: Intersect360 Research Describes HPC Market Trends at SC15
In this video from the Dell booth at SC15, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research discusses why HPC is now important to a broader group of use cases, and dug deep into overviews of HPC for research, life sciences and manufacturing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Predix for Big Data and Analytics
Starting to get an introduction to Predix. Impressive so far. Look forward to see its broad availability. See my other posts this year on Predix development and how it relates to analytic methods.Connect. Optimize. Win.A Software…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: 2016 Optical Interconnects Conference
The fifth annual Optical Interconnects Conference has issued its Call for Papers. Hosted by the IEEE Photonics Society, the event takes place May 9-11 in San Diego. "Optical interconnect strategies can only be fully realized …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snickers Data Mined for Impulse Targets
In Digiday: Snickers mines behavioral data to find 'windows of impulsivity'. .... " .... Ad targeting is moving into a new area: moods. Snickers maker Mars is mining behavioral data to pinpoint people at their weakest moments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gershenfeld Discusses Fab Labs
Via CACM: Neil Gershenfeld talks about Fab Labs. We met him in the early establishment of the idea of the Center for Bits and Atoms.In MIT News" ... Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's…
From insideHPC
The Impact of HPC on Music
Many will be familiar with HPC and industrial or scientific applications, but now HPC is making its impact on something that touches the soul of millions and millions of people every day — music. In an interview with the inventor…
From Blog@Ubiquity
How Much Higher Can ICT Rise? On the Final Limits of ICT
Information and communication technology (ICT) is the most distinctive cultural accomplishment of the last half century. It is unprecedented in sophistication and transformative power. Presumably there’s no limit to sophistication…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Known Discoveries in Data
Was just informed of the below. Exploring, will have further commentsKnown Discoveries in Data, Powered by IBM Watson AnalyticsThis is a place for the curious. Where hidden data insights around some of today’s most provocative…
From insideHPC
Students: Apply Now for Summer of HPC in Europe
PRACE is seeking students interested in spending the summer working abroad. Consisting of a training week and two months at a European High Performance Computing Center, the program affords participants the opportunity to learn…
From insideHPC
Barbara Chapman Named Head of Brookhaven Lab’s Computer Science and Mathematics Group
Barbara Chapman, a leading researcher in programming languages, programming models, and compilers, has been named head of the Computer Science and Mathematics Group (CSM) under the new Computational Science Initiative at the …
From Schneier on Security
Replacing Judgment with Algorithms
China is considering a new "social credit" system, designed to rate everyone's trustworthiness. Many fear that it will become a tool of social control -- but in reality it has a lot in common with the algorithms and systems that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Organizing for the Future
McKinsey writes about how organizations will change as talent market squeeze capabilities: " ... Platform-based talent markets help put the emphasis in human-capital management back where it belongs—on humans. ... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Does the Physical Internet look Like?
Not what does it looks like schematically, fascinating as well, but what does the wiring look like? An article in the Atlantic shows some pictures. Having had access to some associated secure wiring cabinets in the early days…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wirearchy of the Future of Work
An interesting short e-Book was brought to my attention via the Watson Predictioneers group on Slack:Wirearchy - The eBook - Wirearchy (Sketches for the Future of Work) While the Internet, the Web and hyperlinks are having a…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Regulations Governing Protection of Research Participants
USACM submitted comments on the proposed updates to the federal regulations for research involving human subjects. These regulations, known as the Common Rule, are used by multiple federal agencies. They have significance for…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
You Think We Have Problems
Some hard problems in philosophy Wikimedia Commons source Loki is a Jötunn or ss in Norse mythology, who, legend has it, once made a bet with some dwarves. He bet his head, then lost the bet, and almost really lost his head—-more…
From insideHPC
Video: Machine Learning Possibilities with HPC
In this video, Baidu Chief Scientist Andrew Ng discusses what machine learning is, how it relies on high performance computing, and touches on the many ways that machine learning will advance commercial and scientific applications…
From My Biased Coin
Graduating Bits Announcement
Boaz asked me to remind people about ITCS, and in particular the Graduating Bits Event. Just in time for those of us reading application folders....ITCS 2016 will be held at MIT this year Jan 14-16. As in past years, we will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Related Research in FlipBoard
Colleague Walter Riker has set up a flipboard site called 'Data Related Research'. In part to test the reach of Flipboard. My blog is also being mirrored on Flipboard. Let me know if you want access or have other ideas about…
From insideHPC
OCF Deploys Fujitsu HPC Cluster at University of East Anglia
OCF in the U.K. recently deployed a new Fujitsu HPC cluster at the University of East Anglia. As the University’s second new HPC system in 4-years, the cluster can be easily scaled and expanded in the coming months through a …