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
Creating Computing Superheroes
Most interesting view of computing history. Examining Walter Isaacson's The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. Regarding the treatment of Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Coffee Plantation
Use of VR to market an underlying industry, here coffee growing by Nescafe. A simple VR method is used: Cardboard VR, with the assistance of Google. To explain to the interested consumer the underlying business. Might work…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How do People React to Concept Maps?
By colleague Rick Schafermeyer of Yourencore. In particular how well do concept maps work when you share them with users that have built or used them your selves. In Linkedin. My own experience is that they react much better…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Considering AI Today vs AI Yesterday
Good piece, I basically agree. AI methods have largely stayed the same, certainly with some technical improvements, but have improved in application considerably due to new data, sensor and architectural environments. Have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Customer Showrooming
In K@W: Good piece includes some useful statistics that address customer in-store behavior when they are looking for information " .... It’s obvious that customers will prefer to deal with sales associates who know what they…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Siri and Wolfram Alpha
In the early days of Wolfram Alpha we looked at it for potential manipulation of internal data. It now has been accessible via Siri for a while, but I admit I have not until now encountered it in use. You can force its use…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Developer Community Blog
I have been asked to follow developments in places like Amazon Dash, Amazon Echo and AWS for retail. One way to do this is to follow their developer community. The blog is well written, technical, but will give you an indication…
From insideHPC
SC15 Blog Puts the Spotlight on Invited Talks
SC15 has stepped up with a series of blog posts previewing the conference this year, an effort that seems much more engaging than the random press releases we've seen in the past.
The post SC15 Blog Puts the Spotlight on Invited…From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Value
Clearly. But how to make sure you are doing it effectively is not usually obvious.Why Value Creation is the Foundation of Business: How to define it, measure it, and manage itEvergreen is a Bi-weekly collection of links to the…
From insideHPC
Executing Multiple Dynamically Parallelized Programs on Dynamically Shared Cloud Processors
"ThroughPuter PaaS is purpose-built for secure, dynamic cloud computing of parallel processing era. ThroughPuter offers unique, realtime application load and type adaptive parallel processing: Get the speed-up from parallel execution…
From Putting People First
Building a design-driven culture
It’s not enough to just sell a product or service—companies must truly engage with their customers. McKinsey & Company outlines four elements of a design-driven culture, necessary to embed experience design in an organization…
From Putting People First
Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.
MIT Professor Sherry Turkle has been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years. For the past five, I’ve had a special focus: What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so many …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Tests Smart Shelves
We experimented with a number of related methods, combining, visual, sensory, sensing, locating, effecting capabilities, linked to many kinds of data and analytics. An Internet of Grocery things. Will this make the physical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows Dev Center for the IOT
Useful set of resources for the Windows directed IOT. Hardware, software and information for getting started.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Bobtail Squid Keeps Bacteria to Protect Its Eggs
The Hawaiian Bobtail Squid deposits bacteria on its eggs to keep them safe. 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
Questioning Statistical Foundations. Implications for Business?
In the DSC: Some interesting points made, though I can already hear my statisticians moaning. All statistics, all modeling. is meant to be used predictively in business. Back to the question of what you can reasonably predict…
From Schneier on Security
Resilient Systems News
Former Raytheon chief scientist Bill Swanson has joined our board of directors. For those who don't know, Resilient Systems is my company. I'm the CTO, and we sell an incident-response management platform that...well...helps…
From BLOG@CACM
The Bottleneck in Increasing Accessibility to CS Education Is Producing Enough CS Teachers
The demand for CS teachers is growing. Now we have to figure out how to increase the supply.
From insideHPC
StartupHPC-15 Conference Posts Agenda for Austin Event
The good folks from the StartupHPC-15 Conference have posted the Agenda for their meeting at SC15. The day-long conference takes place Monday, Nov 16 in Austin at the Capital Factory in Downtown Austin, Texas. "Does your Startup…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Companies Pursue Innovation
Favorite topic, but not my favorite format. A slide show about approaches to innovation with some interesting thoughts. I was struck by: " ... Partnering Effort ... 72% of the executives anticipate that their company will"…
From Apophenia
Join me at the Parker Lecture on Oct. 20 in Washington DC
Every year, the media reform community convenes to celebrate one of the founders of the movement, to reflect on the ethical questions of our day, and to honor outstanding champions of media reform. This annual event, called the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Bluemix Local
Just announced, I have been a subscriber to Watson on Bluemix for some time, for access to their growing list of Watson services. Also check out the blog link below for updates and hints. Lets you better control your security…
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre 2.9 and Beyond
"Andreas presents an overview on the features currently under development for the upcoming Lustre 2.8 and 2.9 releases. This includes Layout Enhancement, Progressive File Layouts, Data-on-MDT, and improved single-client metadata…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning from Military Teams
We used methods like After Action Reviews (AAR), but there is much more to utilize. An interview with Gen. Stanley McChrystal: " .... Many companies lack an overarching mission that can really bring people together the way the…
From insideHPC
Video: HP R&D and HPC
"The HP Apollo 8000 supercomputing platform approaches HPC from an entirely new perspective as the system is cooled directly with warm water. This is done through a “dry-disconnect” cooling concept that has been implemented with…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
BBC Micro:Bit News–Lots Happening
News about the BBC Micro:Bit is probably more useful to my United Kingdom readers than those of us in the rest of the world but I think it is interesting to many more. There has been a lot of stuff flying through my feed the …
From Geeking with Greg
Not working at Google
It was a surprise, to me at least, that I wasn't able to find a good fit at Google Seattle. Google nowadays is different than I expected, and, after four months of trying hard to find any way to make it what I wanted, I resigned…
From insideHPC
Is MDX the Future of Engineering Simulation?
"By adopting an MDX philosophy, engineers are able to test designs automatically from the early concept stages and against all of the physical factors that might influence a system’s performance. It assesses which set of design…
From BLOG@CACM
A Farewell to (Virtual) Arms?
The potential for a Sino-American cyber arms control agreement is intriguing, despite three very troubling flaws.
From insideHPC
Video: NOAA Software Engineering for Novel Architectures (SENA) Project
“NOAA will acquire software engineering support and associated tools to re-architect NOAA’s applications to run efficiently on next generation fine-grain HPC architectures. From a recent procurement document: “Finegrain architecture…