Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multi Person Virtual Reality
Microsoft Lab research. Not of the Second Life style, but wearing head sets and exploring a common space. Look forward to seeing Hololens in more practical applications.In Technology Review:" ... Augmented or mixed reality,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Getting Fast Feedback
In the Verge: I like the idea of a company getting frequent feedback from its employees. Providing you can do something with the results. Gathering trends, ideas, watch-outs ... Too often these things are done yearly.…
From Computational Complexity
Moore's Law of Code Optimization
An early version of Moore's law is as follows:
HARDWARE: The number of transistors on an integrated circuits doubles every 18 MONTHS.Moore's law is often used to refer to the following: SPEED: The speed of computers due…
From The Eponymous Pickle
City Building Games. In the Enterprise.
I mention this not because I am a Sim City game player, but because I was asked several times to figure out how I could build something similar to model the enterprise. Our own enterprise had a long history of having simulation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insead Knowledge Resources
A friend is connected, Insead Knowlege, worth a closer look. "The Business School of the World ... ". Beyond the social, leveraging communities. And their blogs. Following now.
From insideHPC
Evolution of NASA Earth Science Data Systems in the Era of Big Data
Christopher Lynnes from NASA presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Earth Observing System Data and Information System is a key core capability in NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program. It provides end-to-end capabilities…
From insideHPC
Scientific Cloud Computing Lags Behind the Enterprise
"In business and commercial computing, momentum towards cloud and big data has already built up to the point where it is unstoppable. In technical computing, the growth of the Internet of Things is pressing towards convergence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Innovation and Complexity
In the WSJ: Have only rarely seen this kind of analysis mentioned externally:" .... Consumer product companies don't account for the cost and complexity new products add to the supply chain, often for very little return to brands…
From Putting People First
[Report] Applying design approaches to policy making
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Applying Design Approaches to Policy Making: Discovering Policy Lab Written by Lucy Kimbell Illustrated by Holly Macdonald Published by the University of Brighton September 2015 This report reviews what design-based approaches…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tag Management Systems
Brought to my attention, Tag Management Systems. To compete in an age where customers are empowered to engage with content on their own terms, brands must impress with personalized engagements across the entirety of the customer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agricultural Data Analytics
Have been examining the interaction of agriculture and data analytics. Clearly many new opportunities. Detailed mapping, location awareness, process management and sensor applications are driving some of this.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Traits Indicate Potential in Computer Science?
Last week I was a bit critical of a study about traits that make for good computer science students or programmers (How NOT To Tell If Someone Is Cut Out For Computer Science ) In reply to a tweeted link to that post I had a@alfredtwo…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ken Hits The Big Time
Our own Ken is featured in the Wall Street Journal Christopher Chabris just wrote a wonderful piece on cheating titled “High-Tech Chess Cheaters Charge Ahead.” Chabris is a research psychologist who is well known for his book…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Ken Hits The Big Time
Our own Ken is featured in the Wall Street Journal Christopher Chabris just wrote a wonderful piece on cheating titled “High-Tech Chess Cheaters Charge Ahead.” Chabris is a research psychologist who is well known for his book…
From insideHPC
Video: DDN Infinite Memory Engine IME
Tommaso Cecchi from DDN presented this talk at the HPCAC Spain Conference. "IME unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough, software defined storage application introduces a whole new new tier of transparent…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Program Manager at NOAA
NOAA is seeking an HPC Program Manager in our HPC Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: HPC Program Manager at NOAA appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More than just MOOCs
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparision of Analytic Disciplines
A useful comparative look at analytic disciplines. Reasonable descriptions, also pointers to more resources in each. Shows some of the confusion that is coming from industry groups, academia and practitioners. Current hype…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Announces AWS Quicksight
Have subcribed to AWS for a time, and the beta of this, good effort:Amazon Announces QuickSight - Business Intelligence for Big Data on AWS by Matt Kapilevich Throughout the years, Amazon has introduced a number of solutions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Education and Industry
Challenge: Is education servicing employment? What is working and what is failing? Had been on an advisory group for years that sought out how to adjust curriculum to needs. Never felt it was even possible with the differing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Get Your Audience to Remember
Getting an Audience to Remember Your Presentationby Art MarkmanLots of articles about giving good presentations focus on structure and style. Tips focus on the role of stories to get people interested in the material, the value…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile is the New Front Door
From Think with Google:For Target, Mobile Is the New Front DoorToday, 98% of Target's customers shop digitally, and three-quarters of them start their experience on a mobile device. Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Casey…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decision Scientists Need Game Theory
Good short piece in DSC by William Vorhies, on the interaction of analytics and game theory. And more generally how decisions and risk can be linked to analytical methods. Is this important for data scientists? If you believe…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Elevate for Enterprise Content Sharing
Interesting play. Talked to them about this when in the enterprise. My own experience with Linkedin, primarily with Groups and Mail, is that Linkedin has an awkward information management methodology, especially with mediain…
From insideHPC
ISC 2016 Issues Call for BoFs
ISC 2016 has issued its Call for BoFs. "Like-minded ISC High Performance conference attendees come together in our informal Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions to discuss current HPC topics, network and share their thoughts and…
From insideHPC
Pete Beckman Presents: Exascale Architecture Trends
“Argonne National Laboratory is one of the labs helping to lead the exascale push for the nation with the DOE. We lead in a numbers of areas with software and storage systems and applied math. And we’re really focusing, our expertise…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Secular stagnation: we are trimming down
Economists worry that we have entered in a secular stagnation called the Great Stagnation. To summarize: whereas industrial productivity grew steadily for most of the XXth century, it started to flatten out in the 1970s. We have…
From insideHPC
With Hazel Hen Cray XC40, HRLS Upgrades to 7.42 Petaflops
HLRS in Stuttgart, Germany has upgraded their Hornet system to Hazel Hen, a 7.42 Petaflop Cray XC40 supercomputer. Twice as fast as its predecessor, Hazel Hen is now now ready to support European scientific and industrial users…
From insideHPC
Maximizing HPC Compute Resources with Minimal Cost
"As HPC resource requirements continue to increase, the need for finding economical solutions to handle the rising requirements increases as well. There are numerous ways to approach this challenge. For example, leveraging existing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Time Management
Excellent piece on a favorite topic. Including a number of good discussion comments. My favorite expert on this, Herb Sorensen, sums it up: " .... Excellent discussion here, with a few still arguing to waste shoppers' time…