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 Schneier on Security
Counterfeit Theater Tickets in New York
Counterfeiters are makingtickets for the Broadway show "Hamilton." Counterfeiting is much easier when the person you're passing the fakes off to doesn't know what the real thing is supposed to look like....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Study: Brick and Mortar Appeals to Customers
Study: Brick-and-mortar still appeals to customersAccording to the annual Global Shopper Study from mobile solutions provider Zebra Technologies Corp., more than three-quarters (76%) of shoppers feel positively about shopping…
From Schneier on Security
Match Fixing in Tennis
The BBC and Buzzfeed are jointly reporting on match fixing in tennis. Their story is based partially on leaked documents and partly on data analysis. BuzzFeed News began its investigation after devising an algorithm to analyse…
From insideHPC
Why Sustainable Software Needs a Change in the Culture of Science
"Scientific research is dependent on maintaining and advancing a wide variety of software. However, software development, production, and maintenance are people-intensive; software lifetimes are long compared to hardware; and…
From insideHPC
Video: Microsoft Azure for Engineering Analysis and Simulation
Tejas Karmarkar from Microsoft presented this talk at SC15. "Azure provides on-demand compute resources that enable you to run large parallel and batch compute jobs in the cloud. Extend your on-premises HPC cluster to the cloud…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Mining and Reporting Blog
Brought to my attention, The Data Mining Reporting Blog, by Rosaria Silipo, Principal Data Scientist at KNIME.com AG. The blog covers data analytics in general and not only KNIME. Have added it to my reading list, looks to…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Consciousness and free will are illusions: you are just a robot
As a computer scientist, it is natural for me to view the brain as a computer. And though computers have different abilities, they are also very much all equivalent at a fundamental level. You have machines that can read andContinue…
From Putting People First
Digital media companies need to make user experience a priority — or else
Digital publishing, seeming perpetually up against terrible economics that prize quantity over quality, has reached a point where navigating it is akin to “walking across a sticky cinema store,” according to Barbarian Group executive…
From Putting People First
Experientia website completely reshaped
Experientia is pleased to announce that we’ve started 2016 with a brand new website. Experientia’s now officially 10 years old, and we decided that the best way to celebrate is by building a new website that showcases our growth…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 18 January 2016
Last week was a good week as computer science education was called out by the President of the United States. And a student of mine, me and some other great people were quoted in an article on NPR The President Wants Every Student…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Practical Analytics Culture
In CustomerThink: Some good thoughts on the topic. It is also a culture thinking about data, both available and needed. Plus creating an interaction between production value and experimental tools. And reapplying the work you…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why Knowledge Representation Matters
In CACM: By Yoav Shoham via David Geddes.There is a big difference between the attention artificial intelligence (AI) is currently receiving and that of the 1990s. Twenty years ago, the focus was on logic-based AI, usually…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Beacons
In Adage: More updates on beacons. They continue to expand. " .... Mobile Beacons to Explode, but They Aren't a Silver Bullet for Tracking ... Macy's, McDonalds and Target Have Lately Signed New Beacon Contracts ... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slack as Company of the Year
Can Slack replace Email? Just recently was introduced to the growing social network, for a specific, but broadly defined topic. Will it work to drive focus? Unlike other social spaces, will it get things done (Twitter?)…
From Geeking with Greg
Quick links
What caught my attention recently: "Big ideas emerge from spills, crashes, failed experiments and blind stabs .... As people dredge the unknown, they are engaging in a highly creative act .... the habits that transform a mistake…
From insideHPC
ESI Opens Datacenter at Teratec for Engineering in the Cloud
Although the cloud has become an accepted part of commercial and consumer computing, science and engineering have been less welcoming to the concept, but this could be on the point of changing with the announcement this month…
From insideHPC
Video: Vectorization Advisor in Action for Computer-Aided Formulation
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15, Kevin O'Leary from Intel presents: Vectorization Advisor in Action for Computer-Aided Formulation. "The talk will focus on a step-by-step walkthrough of optimizations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Checkout in the Aisle
Mashable writes: An old idea, back again. Have followed it and related tests for years. How relevant will it be in an online world? Now from Diebold.
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Well Does Personalized Marketing Work?
In K@W: How well does personalized marketing work? " ... “People Who Liked This Study Also Liked”: An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales Volume and Diversity,” and “When Do Recommender…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft R Server
A bit surprising But a great way to make a strong connection to modern anaytics. Available free for experimentation. What are its advantages over open source R?Microsoft R: One Big Data Tool To Rule Them All?Microsoft wants…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology
The 32nd International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2016) has issued its Call for Participation & Papers. The event takes place April 30 - May 6 in Santa Clara, CA. "The Program Committee requests…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Compiler & Tools Engineer
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is seeking an HPC Compiler & Tools Engineer in our Job of the Week. "As a member of the Development Environment Group in the Livermore Computing (LC) supercomputing center, will work as a software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Light Bulb as Single Source for a Smart Home
More out of CES. New solutions for the smart home. Edison would be impressed. A Challenge to Amazon Echo?In Business Insider: " ... It's a lightbulb that's also a Bluetooth wireless speaker. It can also search the web, read…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Choosing Empathy
In the Edge on choosing empathy. " ..... If you believe that you can harness empathy and make choices about when to experience it versus when not to, it adds a layer of responsibility to how you engage with other people. If…
From Schneier on Security
Should We Allow Bulk Searching of Cloud Archives?
Jonathan Zittrain proposes a very interesting hypothetical: Suppose a laptop were found at the apartment of one of the perpetrators of last year's Paris attacks. It's searched by the authorities pursuant to a warrant, and they…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science/Coding Education Graphic from SMU
Guest author: Shane Ryan; Community Manager, DataScience@SMU DataScience@SMU, the online data science program offered by Southern Methodist University recently published a graphic detailing coding and computer science education…
From BLOG@CACM
Toward a Discourse on Cyber Strategy
Efforts to understand how advanced information technologies will affect future conflicts seem to be missing, or are taking place far from the public eye.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psych and Economics in Hindsight
In Knowledge@Wharton: " .... In the new book Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard Thaler, coauthor of Nudge and a behavioral science and economics professor at the University of Chicago, recounts his struggle…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopping in the Virtual Aisle
Another example of virtual aisle interaction. See my previous writing on this approach. The laboratory approach is useful for easily setting up experiments, but it also needs the right kind of behavioral expert to drive the…
From insideHPC
2015 Site Budget Map Reflects HPC Spending
Today Intersect360 Research released its eighth 2015 Site Budget Allocation Map, a look at how HPC sites divide and spend their budgets.
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