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 insideHPC
Video: Accelerating Cognitive Workloads with Machine Learning
In this video, Ruchir Puri, an IBM Fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center talks about building large-scale big data systems and delivering real-time solutions such as using machine learning to predict drug reactions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing the Internet of Things
Teradata's Bill Franks on the IOT. Nice concise thoughts. Like Big Data, the IOT's engine is analytics and then translating that to decison. Not sure we need another acronymn (AoT), but I accept it as a reminder of the fundamental…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alchemy API Language
Brought Back to my attention.Build Smarter Apps With AlchemyLanguage12 Semantic Text Analysis APIs Using Natural Language ProcessingPioneering Easy-to-build Smart Apps for Understanding Customer Needs and Predicting Their Behavior…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New Connected Vehicle Data Sets from the Safety Pilot Model Deployment (SPMD) Program Are Now Available on the Research Data Exchange
The Research Data Exchange (RDE) is a web-based data resource provided by the USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program. It collects, manages, and provides access to archived and real-time multi-source and multi-modal…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Supercomputing Frontiers in Singapore
The Supercomputing Frontiers 2016 conference has issued its Call for Papers. Held in conjunction of the launch of the new Singapore National Supercomputing Center, the event takes place March 15-18. "Supercomputing Frontiers …
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of Programming
Have become involved in looking how algorithmic knowledge is stored lately, and this has required looking at alternative coding methods. Visualization of process is a key element to describe the related knowledge to decision…
From insideHPC
ACTnowHPC Joins UberCloud Marketplace
Today the ACTnowHPC on demand cloud cluster joined the UberCloud online marketplace, where engineers, scientists and their service providers discover, try, and buy computing power and software in the cloud as a service. ACTnowHPC…
From insideHPC
TACC’s Lonestar 5 Begins Full Production
Today the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced that the Lonestar 5 supercomputer is in full production and is ready to contribute to advancing science across the state of Texas. Managed by TACC, the center's second…
From Schneier on Security
France Rejects Back Doors in Encryption Products
For the right reasons too: Axelle Lemaire, the Euro nation's digital affairs minister, shot down the amendment during the committee stage of the forthcoming omnibus digital bill, saying it would be counterproductive and would…
From Putting People First
Forrester Research: Mobile marketing companies lack ethnographic capabilities
In June 2015, Google commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate how prepared mobile marketers are to deliver to consumers during quick mobile “moments” – i.e. — instances when they reflexively turn to their devices to act …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rules for Tough Decisions
3 Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions In the HBR: by Peter BregmanSome good simple thoughts. Now might these also be systematized as part of a simulation. As part of different contexts? And then crowdsourced in some…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Employee Engagement Formula
How do companies engage with their own employees? In the HBR:" .... IDEO’s origin story sometimes sounds like a myth or a fable, but it’s actually true. David Kelley founded the company with a simple goal: to create a workplace…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Studying Data Scientists
Nice piece by Bob Hayes. I like the structural aspects included. Classification of skills can be imprecise too. " .... Empirically-Based Approach to Understanding the Structure of Data ScienceBob Hayes, PhD ... Based…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching Students What They Want To Learn
I’m grading end of semester projects this week. Generally speaking, they are full of the concepts and tools that we have worked with in the course of the semester. Things that are a regular part of the curriculum. Many of the…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference 2016
The HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference 2016 has posted its speaker agenda. The event will take place Feb 24-25, 2016 on the Stanford University campus at the new Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center. "The HPC Advisory Council…
From Schneier on Security
Reverse-Engineering a Zero-Day Exploit from the Hacking Team Data Dump
Last July, a still-anonymous hacker broke into the network belonging to the cyberweapons arms manufacturer Hacking Team, and dumped an enormous amount of its proprietary documents online. Kaspersky Labs was able to reverse-engineer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenges for Home Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum: A good look at the challenges still unmet for home robotics. A topic I have looked at for a number of years. And while the press has claimed broad success for a long time, it has not happened. Why? The…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk-The Citizen Lab’s Mixed Methods Approach to Research on Information Controls
The next WATCH talk, called The Citizen Lab’s Mixed Methods Approach to Research on Information Controls is Thursday, January 21, 2016 from Noon-1pm ET. The presenter is Ronald J. Deibert, Professor of Political Science and Director…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Ceph and the Future of Software Defined Storage
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dan Ferber, Open Source Server Based Storage Technologist at Intel and Ross Turk, Director of Product Marketing for Red Hat describe how Ceph plays a critical role in delivering the full enterprise…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft, P&G Supported Skip App in Test
Mentioned here previously, the Skip in aisle checkoutApp is now in test. Note the connection to the Azure analytics platform which leverages data gathering from shopper behavior. See also Krogers test in this area. We tested…
From insideHPC
Zack Smocha Joins Rescale as VP of Product Marketing
Today HPC cloud provider Rescale announced that Zack Smocha has joined the company as vice president of product marketing, bringing two decades of experience in cloud and enterprise software marketing to his new role. As a member…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Miss Piggy and Imperson Chatbots
Marketers see Chatbots as a means to engage with Virtual Assistants. Facebook's Messenger is an example mentioned here before. How does personality create engagement to deliver intelligence and services? Imperson from the Disney…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reputation in the Age of the Internet
In the Edge: The internet has changed the means and the metrics. You could always sculpt your reputation, but not as easily as you can today. Positive and negative. What are the correct measures?
From Putting People First
[Book] Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research
Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research by Tomer Sharon Rosenfeld Media, January 2016 344 pages Want to know what your users are thinking? If you’re a product manager or developer, this book will help you learn the…
From insideHPC
Samsung Mass Producing HBM2 – World’s Fastest DRAM
Today Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 4-gigabyte DRAM package based on the second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) interface, for use in high performance computing, advanced…
From insideHPC
Allinea Scalable Profiler Speeds Application Readiness for Summit Supercomputer at Oak Ridge
Today Allinea announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory has deployed its code performance profiler Allinea MAP in strength on the Titan supercomputer. Allinea MAP enables developers of software for supercomputers of all sizes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media for Working for Customer Service
Seen evidence of this recently, but it is typically at the touch of our fingertips these days. Social Media not Working for Customers Service?Despite promises to eliminate long waits on hold and speed consumers to empowered associates…
From insideHPC
Enhanced Air Cooling with Internal Loop
Although liquid cooling is considered by many to be the future for data centers, the fact remains that there are some who do not yet need to make a full transformation to liquid cooling. Others are restricted until the next budget…
From Computational Complexity
Is it okay to praise an article or book in an article or book?
I recently had a paper accepted (YEAH!). The referees had some good corrections and one that puzzled me. you wrote ``our proof is similar to the one in the wonderful book by Wilf on generationg functions [ref]''. You should …
From insideHPC
Open Fabrics Workshop Extends Call for Session Deadline to Feb 1
The 2016 OpenFabrics Workshop has extended the dealing for its Call for Sessions to Feb. 1, 2016. The event takes place April 4-8, 2016 in Monterey, California. "The Workshop is the premier event for collaboration between OpenFabrics…