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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NIH Grant Opportunity related to CCC Aging in Place Workshop
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a new grant called Collaborative Aging (in Place) Research Using Technology (CART) (U2C), which is a result of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and National Heart,…
From Computational Complexity
A human-readable proof that every planar graph is 4.5-colorable
About 20 years ago I went to a talk by Jim Propp on the fractional chromatic number of a graph. (Here is a link to a free legal copy of the book on fractional graph theory by Ed Scheinerman and Dan Ullman.) Let c be a natural…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skill Testing for Intelligent Assistants
Fascinating view of how skills are constructed from microelements and tested. Just updated. Informative for those thinking about constructing intelligent assistants with a vocal interface. Technical, but understandable for…
From insideHPC
World’s Largest Two-Phase Immersion Cooling Project to Use 3M Novec Fluid
Today 3M announced that the world’s most powerful two-phase immersion cooling project will be deployed in a 40+ MW data center in the Republic of Georgia. Designed and built by the Hong Kong-based engineering company, Allied …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco fails to sell DunnHumby
Considerable local presence, with their US HQ, they hire many entry level data analysts. We used many of DunnHumby's services for targeted coupons.Tesco’s Prophecy Proves Costly as Sale of Dunnhumby Falls FlatTesco's Dunnhumby…
From insideHPC
Panel Discussion: Extreme-Scale Numerical Algorithms and Software
"The FASTMathSciDAC Institute develops and deploys scalable mathematical algorithms and software tools for reliable simulation of complex physical phenomena and collaborates with application scientists to ensure the usefulness…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Reference Architecture
Nicely done look at a Cloud Analytics Playbook & Reference Architecture by @BoozAllen at Booz Allen Consulting via Kirk Borne. I like the inclusion of metadata tagging in the design.
From insideHPC
SGI UV 300RL Enables Real-time Analytics with Oracle Database In-Memory
Today SGI introduced the SGI UV 300RL for big data in-memory analytics. As a new model in the SGI UV server line certified and supported with Oracle Linux, the SGI UV 300RL provides up to 32 sockets and 24 terabytes of shared…
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft's Brad Smith on the Collapse of Safe Harbor
Microsoft's President Brad Smith has a blog post discussing what to do now that the US-EU safe-harbor agreement has collapsed. He outlines four steps: First, we need to ensure across the Atlantic that people's legal rights move…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Companies Reaching out to Millennials
In the HBR: How established companies, as in hospitality and insurance, are reaching out to Millennials. Need for a new kind of talking. We met with their innovation people five years ago, and the changes were understood…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amelia Virtual Assistant. Understanding Risk
Amelia. The Virtual Assistant that May Take Your JobContinued emergence of virtual assistants with new capabilities: How will these be integrated into the workplace? I have been receiving more interest recently in understanding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Progress of Online Shopping
Marketist Mark J Perry charts the progress of online shopping with stock prices." .... There may be no other large company operating today that better illustrates the economic concepts of creative destruction and consumer sovereignty…
From Putting People First
Madrid, the non-neoliberal smart city
Paul Mason, economics editor at Channel 4 News and occasional columnist at The Guardian, writes about an alternative smart city vision: the “non-neoliberal smart city” that is currently being developed in Madrid: Instead of seeing…
From Putting People First
Madrid, the non-neoliberal smart city
Paul Mason, economics editor at Channel 4 News and occasional columnist at The Guardian, writes about an alternative smart city vision: the “non-neoliberal smart city” that is currently being developed in Madrid: Instead of seeing…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 26 November 2015
I’m writing this post from a hotel in Chicago. I’m here for some meetings which I’ll be sure to blog about later. I left my power cord home so this may be a short post though. The trials of travel. I’ll start with a couple of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Another look at Vizable: Simplicity in Design
Fast CoDesign looks at the design of Tableau's free tablet oriented Vizable, which I recently reviewed. They say nicely done, and I agree. Not nearly all the bells and whistles of Tableau senior, but that is actually a good…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Employee Advocacy
The idea was brought back to mind by reading the Shareology book by Bryan Kramer. Having your employees help you market. But how to do that well? Pointed to Dynamic Signal. Empowering the right employees that have, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Example of Connecting Home IOT Devices
Have been exploring the integration of multiple control devices for the home IOT. Here is an example that lets your connect the Amazon Echo to the Nest Thermostat. Thus command it by voice from the Echo. Also a good simple…
From insideHPC
Intel to Host Lustre Vision Update at SC15
Intel will host a Lustre Vision Update in Austin at SC15. "Lustre is a key component of the Scalable System Framework which offers performance, scalability and balance for both compute and data-intensive applications - smoothing…
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to the Yellowstone Supercomputer
In this video, Patrick Nichols from UCAR presents: Introduction to the Yellowstone Supercomputer. Yellowstone is NCAR's 1.5-petaflops high-performance IBM iDataPlex cluster, which features 72,576 Intel Sandy Bridge processors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Mobile Gaming and Customer Journey
Some examples of how people are using mobile games to enhance customer experiences.In Customer Think: " ... Last week the technology company Qmatic hosted their annual partner and client event in Amsterdam with 267 delegates…
From The Eponymous Pickle
R vs Python for Data Analytics
From the Data Camp Blog. A comparative look at the two data analysis languages R and Python. Have had to look at this question recently. I agree with the general points made. And often, you are forced into what is already…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Thinking Everything Around Machine Learning
Quite a considerable statement. We know the founders of Google were always interested in leveraging AI more fundamentally. Machine learning is a way to find pattern in information. Cognitive methods then link such patterns…
From CERIAS Blog
Cyber Security in Stasis
This evening, someone pointed out Congressional testimony I gave over 6 years ago. This referenced similar testimony I gave in 2001, and I prepared it using notes from lectures I gave in the early-to-mid 1990s.
What is discouraging…From CERIAS Blog
Cyber Security in Stasis
This evening, someone pointed out Congressional testimony I gave over 6 years ago. This referenced similar testimony I gave in 2001, and I prepared it using notes from lectures I gave in the early-to-mid 1990s.
What is discouraging…From CERIAS Blog
Cyber Security in Stasis
This evening, someone pointed out Congressional testimony I gave over 6 years ago. This referenced similar testimony I gave in 2001, and I prepared it using notes from lectures I gave in the early-to-mid 1990s.
What is discouraging…From The Eponymous Pickle
Steve Omohundro on Tesla, Echo and AI
Steve Omohundro interview. Covering a number of favorite topics.Vincent Everts interview on self-driving Teslas, Amazon Echo and Moral AIVincent Everts is a fascinating Dutch technologist who also travels around the world interviewing…
From insideHPC
Council on Competitiveness Report: HPC Transforms Manufacturing
Today the Council on Competitiveness published a new report from the National Digital Engineering Manufacturing Consortium (NDEMC). Entitled “Modeling, Simulation and Analysis, and High Performance Computing: Force Multiplier…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior HPC Systems Administrator at George Washinton University
George Washinton University is seeking a Senior HPC Systems Administrator at in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: Senior HPC Systems Administrator at George Washinton University appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Scientists in an Insight Economy
What is the Role of the Data Scientist in the Insight Economy?The insight economy is based on the monetization of data and analytics. This model isn’t new — I mean, what do you think Bloomberg does all day? — but it goes beyond…