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 Putting People First
Seeking meaning in a Big Data world
The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s new national centre for data science, will focus on “drawing value out of the data”, writes Emily Cadman in the Financial Times. According to the Institute’s website, the mission is to “undertake…
From BLOG@CACM
Here's Why Microsoft Cares About Basic Research — And You Should, Too
Basic scientific research made today's technology possible, and it will lead to tomorrow's technological breakthroughs.
From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of Unpatched Android Software
A lot has been written about the security vulnerability resulting from outdated and unpatched Android software. The basic problem is that while Google regularly updates the Android software, phone manufacturers don't regularly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Books is Legal
Followed this for a long time. The underlying idea is very powerful, scan all books and make them available. The legal issues are complex. Have been worked on for a decade. Google wins. Now What? Good piece on this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review: Tableau Launches Vizable for Tablet
Tableau has launched a free data visualization capability for the iPad called Vizable. I loaded it up today and ran through a number of examples. Includes basic visualization forms. Nicely done, includes the ability to import…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Disrupting the Gender Gap in Computer Science
On Friday, I’m giving a TED-style talk for our regional school association on what I call the “girl problem” in Computer Science, and how we might fix it. I’ve been preparing for this talk for months, reviewing research about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UC Center for Business Analytics
A very late invite, I just received, but here it is:You are invited to a free special event at University of Cincinnati, Lindner College of Business tonight at 7:30 PM in Room 112. J.T. Kostman, Chief Data Officer, Time, Inc…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strap Startup for Marketing Analytics
Brought to my attention via the Brandery. Strap. Also, their Brandery information." .... Strap enables actionable human data to inform and improve marketing and engagement programs. We believe the consumer centered journey…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing to Build 7-9 Petaflops of Open Compute Clusters for NNSA
Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced a contract with Penguin Computing for a set of large-scale Open Compute HPC clusters. With 7-to-9 Petaflops of aggregate peak performance, the systems will be…
From insideHPC
Stanford Accelerates Solar Car with Sabalcore HPC Cloud
The Stanford Solar Car Project is using the Sabalcore HPC Cloud to significantly improve aerodynamics for their entry in the 2015 World Solar Challenge. "The car’s asymmetrical body, or catamaran design, as it’s called, required…
From Apophenia
What World Are We Building?
This morning, I had the honor and pleasure of giving the Everett C. Parker Lecture in celebration of the amazing work he did to fight for media justice. The talk that I gave weaved together some of my work with youth (on racial…
From insideHPC
NSF Funds Supercomputing for Neuroscientists at SDSC
Neuroscientists will find an easier path to supercomputiong thanks to new SDSC funding from the NSF. The project will contribute to the national BRAIN initiative announced by the Obama administration in 2013 to advance researchers…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
50 Emerging Global Entrepreneurs to Watch
The Kairos Society, a San Francisco-based international organization that supports the development of entrepreneurs has published its fourth annual list of Kairos 50; a list of 50 emerging global startups, with at least one founder…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Medical Early Detection Systems
In CWorld: ' ... Penn Medicine’s big data system triggers early detection of life-threatening infections ... Insights drawn from a massively parallel computer cluster loaded with vast amounts of data help doctors develop new…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programmers vs. Idiots
I found this image recently and shared it on Facebook.
Reactions from my friends was interesting. Most agreed with my saying that I didn’t think programmers were doing enough to make software easy to use. One person pointed …From The Eponymous Pickle
Hololens Future
An update on expectations for Microsoft's Hololens. No consumer version until 2017? I got a developer invite recently which led me to think possibilities. It seems the direction continues to pull towards gaming rather than…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think Further DNA
I was pointed to the Think Future web site. A post there on disruptive financial tools. " .... Life Code is the extraordinary technology built from DNA. From healthcare to energy, media to retailing, Life Code is transforming…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shared Experience and Empathy
In the HBR: Indications that the very old adage of having to 'walk in their shoes' may not work the way we always expected.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting to China's Wired Consumers
In McKinsey: Five keys to connecting with China’s wired consumersChina is the world’s largest and most dynamic e-commerce market. But being successful requires understanding and embracing its unique digital landscape and consumers…
From insideHPC
Lustre* Accelerates the Convergence of Big Data and HPC in Financial Services
Across industries, companies are beginning to watch the convergence of High-performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data. Many organizations in the Financial Services Industry (FSI) are running their financial simulations on business…
From insideHPC
Bill Gropp Presents: MPI and Hybrid Programming Models
Bill Gropp presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "Where it is used as an alternative to MPI, OpenMP often has difficulty achieving the performance of MPI (MPI’s much-criticized requirement…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congressional Innovation Fellowship Applications Due November 1
TechCongress, in partnership with the Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation, is accepting applications for its inaugural class of Congressional Innovation Fellows. This new nonpartisan program places Fellows…
From updated sporadically at best
The Spam Filter Apocalypse
| Spam filters almost prevented these gorgeous photo ops. |
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congressional Briefing on the STEM Education Pipeline
The Council of Undergraduate Research, ACM, CRA, ASME, and ACS are sponsoring a Congressional briefing entitled, “Building a STEM Education Pipeline Aligned with Industry Needs: Perspectives from the Field,” on Tuesday, October…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Transitioning From Academia to Industry
It seems that 2015 has been a year of change for our family. My husband got a new job in February, we somewhat suddenly decided to buy a new house down the road over the summer, and I was unsuccessful at getting a permanentShopify…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for HPC Advisory Council China Conference
The HPC Advisory Council has published the Agenda for their China Conference. The event takes place Nov. 9 in Wuxi, China.
The post Agenda Posted for HPC Advisory Council China Conference appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hyperspectral Cameras as Sensors
In the CACM: " .... Researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research say they are developing HyperCam, affordable camera technology that could soon enable consumers to tell if fruits or vegetables are ripe or…
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of Neuromarketing
In New York Magazine: Good non technical article on the state of the use of neuromarketing techniques in industry. Some of the things stated as starting to happen are already here. Still, the approaches have yet to largely…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Consumers Can Predict Product Failures
In RetailWire: " ... While brands and retailers continually try to link themselves to trendsetters, a new university study has identified a unique subset of consumers — "Harbingers of Failure" — for their ability to predict product…
From insideHPC
Researchers Propose “Brain Observatory” Neurotechnology Centers
Researchers are calling for a coordinated national network of neurotechnology centers or "brain observatories." As proposed in an Opinion paper published in the Neuron journal, the observatories would augment the BRAIN Initiative…