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
Using Behavioral Data
In Linkedin by Robin CronanUsing Behavioural DataMarketing Datafication No.2 looks at behavioural data and how it can be used to improve targeting, message personalisation and customer experience ... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Hearable AI: Mycroft
And how about Mycroft? There seems to be a market for hearable/vocal channels to knowledge. and cognitive value. In the enterprise, such systems are likely to be attentive and advisory. I recall an example where a group of corporate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
War on Advertising
A longer look by Adage on the war on advertising, starting with more advanced availability of ad blocking. A move to more to more quality in ads and less trickery would be a good step. Give us a better value proposition.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Call for Nominations for ACM Policy Award
ACM is accepting nominations for the inaugural ACM Policy Award to honor the contributions of an individual, or a small group, who has had a significant impact on the formation or execution of public policy related to computing…
From Schneier on Security
NSA Patents
Details on the patents issued to the NSA....
From insideHPC
Submit Your 2016 Research Allocation Requests for the Bridges Supercomputer
XSEDE is now accepting 2016 Research Allocation Requests for the Bridges supercomputer. Available starting in January, 2016 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Bridges represents a new concept in high performance computing…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
An Inside Look at Being A Computer Science Teacher
Garth Flint is one of my favorite bloggers. Garth teaches computer science in a smallish private Catholic school in Montana. This week he wrote a pair of articles that I REALLY like. In fact I think they are a must read for a…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Predicting the near future is a crazy, impossible game
Back in 1903, the Wright brothers flew for the first time, 20 feet above ground, for 12 seconds. Hardly anyone showed up. The event went vastly unnoticed. It was not reported in the press. The Wright brothers did not become famous…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enhancing the Purchase journey
Selling, interaction and engagement as a journey. Have always liked the model.How to analyze big data to enhance the purchase journey by Nellie Chan Big data can be overwhelming. Here is how to use predictive lead scoring…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Squid Recipe
Delicious recipe of squid with cabbage, bean sprouts, and noodles. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cincinnati Startup Community Competes
Participated in a day for the Cincinnati startup community yesterday, put on by Centrifuse and The Brandery. Represented GMDC in 'speed dating' sessions for a dozen startups in the retail and manufacturing spaces. Some quite…
From Schneier on Security
I'm a Guest on "Adam Ruins Everything"
The show is about security theater. I am a disembodied head on a scooter. Here's a teaser. Here's the full episode (for pay, but cheap). The scooter idea was a hack when I couldn't find the time to fly to LA for live filming.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Campbell's Recipes Via Amazon Echo
Campbell Soup to partner with Amazon Echo to provide recipes. The Echo kitchen support functions are still very primitive, will be interesting to see recipes are provided. Sign up here. I am hoping this will be more interesting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Contact Lens
More sensor directions. " ... Google's Life Sciences unit, whose projects include a smart contact lens for measuring blood glucose levels, will become an independent company within Alphabet under Google's reorganization. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Bluemix Watson Cognitive Services
Want to see how to utilize the 28 APIs now available that derive from Watson, for your own applications? Or even determine if it is possible today. Here is a self contained piece that tells you how to sign up for Bluemix…
From Schneier on Security
SHA-1 Freestart Collision
There's a new cryptanalysis result against the hash function SHA-1: Abstract: We present in this article a freestart collision example for SHA-1, i.e., a collision for its internal compression function. This is the first practical…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing Powers Efforts to Save Ocean Coral
What can we do to help ocean coral survive Global Warming? In this TACC podcast, Jorge Salazar looks at how researchers are using the Stampede supercomputer to investigate how Corals can genetically adapt to warmer waters.
The…From insideHPC
Video: HPC in the Design of Aircraft Engines
"This webinar replay discusses the use of high performance computing (HPC) in the design of aircraft jet engines and gas turbines used to generate electrical power. HPC is the critical enabler in this process, but applying HPC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Business Emergent. Decision Makers Say Show me.
In the WSJ. Article on IBM's Cognitive Business group. Surprised the term AI is being used. Have not seen that used in IBM's materials. Term has been somewhat toxic in business. Decision makers now in a more show-me mood…
From XRDS
ACM CHI PLAY 2015: XRDS insider’s view!
CHI PLAY 2015 is the second edition of the ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. It is an international and interdisciplinary conference for researchers and professionals of all areas of play, games…
From insideHPC
HP and SanDisk to Team on Memory-Driven Computing
Today HP and SanDisk announced a long-term partnership to collaborate on a new technology within the Storage Class Memory (SCM) category. The partnership will center around HP’s Memristor technology and expertise and SanDisk’s…
From insideHPC
IBM Launches LC OpenPower Servers
Today IBM announced launched a new LC series of servers that infuse technologies from members of the OpenPOWER Foundation and are part of IBM's Power Systems portfolio of servers. According to IBM, the new LC systems perform …
From insideHPC
Lustre Video: Robinhood v3 Policy Engine and Beyond
"The Robinhood Policy Engine is a versatile tool to manage contents of large file systems. It maintains a replicate of filesystem medatada in a database that can be queried at will. It makes it possible to schedule mass action…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Scientist Among the Winners of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship
The MacArthur Foundation has named its 2015 class of MacArthur Fellows, recognizing 24 exceptionally creative individuals with a track record of achievement and the potential for significant contributions in the future. Fellows…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How NOT To Tell If Someone Is Cut Out For Computer Science
Recently “Code School, a Pluralsight company and online learn-to-code destination” released the results of a study of sorts they did to try and determine who were good candidates for a career in computing. The results are, in…
From insideHPC
Morton Ordering on the Intel Xeon Phi
The Morton order is a mapping of multidimensional data to one dimension that preserves locality of the data. This is also known as Z-order. "By using Morton ordering as an alternative to row-major or column-major data storage…
From Putting People First
Digital identity ecosystems in the context of Big data and mass surveillance
Research on Digital Identity Ecosystems by Francesca Bria, Gemma Galdon Clavell, Javier Ruiz, José María Zavala, Laura Fitchner, Harry Halpin D-CENT (Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies) 30 June 2015 D-CENT (a European…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executive Guide to the IOT
From McKinsey, an executive guide to the Internet of Things, the IOT. Also useful current statistics and statement of issues and trends. . Quite well done, I have passed it on a number of times.
From Schneier on Security
Information in Your Boarding Pass's Bar Code
There's a lot of information, including the ability to get even more information....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Preparaton
In O'Reilly. Just downloaded. Basic points on data preparation.Translating data into knowledge by Federico CastanedoBest practices for data preparation — what you need to know before data analysis can begin.Download “Data…