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
My Writings for Cognitive Systems Group
Links to my writings for the Cognitive Systems Institute Group. On automated analytics, cognitive systems, virtual advisors and more. These are links to discussions in the Linkedin group that will continue to be updated. Please…
From insideHPC
Optimizing Cloud and HPC Technologies for Advanced Simulation
Rob Walsh from Altair Engineering presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The HyperWorks Unlimited Physical Appliance is a fully configured high-performance computing (HPC) appliance specifically designed to manage and solve…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The CCC Needs Your Input on Software Security
The Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 mandated a report to Congress on the status of a Cybersecurity Research Plan, specifically focusing on software security. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is in a unique position…
From insideHPC
Qumulo Data-Aware Scale-Out NAS Powers Analytics at Sinclair Oil
Today Qumulo announced that Sinclair Oil has chosen the company's scale-out NAS storage for increased performance and real-time data visibility necessary to properly monitor the companys rapidly growing digital system.
TheQumulo…From Schneier on Security
How to Commandeer a Store PA System
If you call the proper phone extension, you have complete control over the public address system at a Target store....
From Putting People First
Inside the mind of museum-goer
Why do some people spend all day in a gallery while others dash around in an hour? Laurent Carpentier wonders what is the difference between the 3.6% of respondents who reported that they had spent more than six hours exploring…
From Putting People First
Don Norman on why “mostly autonomous” cars are dangerous
Cars that are autonomous most of the time (but not all the time) are dangerous, argues Donald Norman: “Whether you are fan or foe of completely autonomous vehicles, note that it will be decades before we have full automation …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automation in IT Services
Interesting suggestion. Certainly not what has happened to date. The growth of IT use and complexity has led to many more workers. In CWorld: " ... Automation expected to cut workforce needs by 25% at IT services firms. .…
From insideHPC
Video: Dell Powers Comet Supercomputer at SDSC
"Comet is SDSC’s newest HPC cluster, designed as a high-throughput system with unique HPC virtualization capabilities to accommodate a large number of researchers looking for rapid turnaround. It is built on Dell PowerEdge C6320…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Power of Now: Retail Forecasting
In Think with Google. Have followed a number of growth models. Examining this one.Marketing's New 'Power of Now' In a world of infinite information and product choice, consumers hold more power than brands. For retailers, this…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 19 October 2015
I played around with social media statistics this weekend. Apparently some 7% of both my Twitter followers and readers of this blog are from the UK. That more than justifies me posting BBC Micro:Bit news. That’s my story and …
From The Eponymous Pickle
NASA Offering Patents to Startups
In ZDNet: To include patents in Robotics and Analytics." ... US space agency NASA is offering startups a license to 15 categories of patented NASA technologies for free.The move follows Google's offer earlier this year of 'free'…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing and Design Thinking
Nicely thought out look at the idea. Embed the consumer.Marketing takeaways from design thinking by Mandeep Grover As marketers, it's easy to get stuck in campaign cycles and budgets, which is why a design thinking mindset…
From Computational Complexity
Amazon going after fake reviews but mine is still posted
I have always wondered why YELP and Amazon Reviews and other review sites work as well as they do since a company COULD flood one with false reviews (high marks for their company or low marks for their competitors). From what…
From insideHPC
Video: Oclgrind – An Extensible OpenCL Device Simulator
"We describe Oclgrind, a platform designed to enable the creation of developer tools for analysis and debugging of OpenCL programs. Oclgrind simulates how OpenCL kernels execute with respect to the OpenCL standard, adhering to…
From insideHPC
PNNL Launches CENATE Computing Proving Ground
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has opened the CENATE Center for Advanced Technology Evaluation, a first-of-its-kind computing proving ground. Designed to shape future extreme-scale computing systems, CENATE evaluations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google NGram Viewer
While considering some unstructured text analysis the Google Ngram viewer came to mind. The system " .... charts frequencies of any word or short sentence using yearly count of n-grams found in the sources printed between 1800…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Terrifying Retail Words
In Gartner Blogs, by Robert Hetu," ... What are the most terrifying words in retail? “There is nothing here to buy”. The speaker of these words was none other than my spouse last night in our local Walmart. So I was glad to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beetle Blocks
Fun idea, application to certain kinds of 3D designs, tunneling, extruding, forming? Reminds me of Turtle progams. It is inspired by MIT Media Lab Scratch. Uses Berkeley Snap! language.Via the CACM Linkedin Group.BeetleBeetle…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Superforecasting and Straight Thinking
In this week's NYT book review, a piece on “Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction,” by the psychologist Philip E. Tetlock. I have mentioned the work here a number of times. This overview does a good job presenting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
PureMatter Marketing
Newly discovered: PureMatter." ... Since PureMatter was founded in 2002, the world has changed. The economy tanked. Technology exploded. Expectations keep increasing. Consumers have never been so connected – and there’s no end…
From insideHPC
HPC Matters to Aerospace
In this video from the SC15 HPC Matters series, NASA Aerospace Engineer Dr. Shishir Pandya describes how high performance computing helps advance airplane and rocket technologies. “Why does high-performance computing matter? …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surge Pricing Examined
Studied this when it became possible to digitally and dynamically price items in store. Of course online it can be done much more easily. Note here it is mostly about service examples. What are the expectation of customers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dell makes Acquisitions
I remember when we regularly bought Dell PCs, now a change in direction with a big price tag.From Petri KB: Dell’s $67 Billion Acquisition of EMC to be Biggest Tech Deal EverPC giant Dell announced this morning that it would…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Future of the Intelligent Conversational Interface
The virtual assistant with a conversational interface. Some just trading questions and answers via text, but increasingly including a human-like voice. Have explored this for some time. From building systems we deliveredIn…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Software Engineer at Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University is seeking an HPC Software Engineer in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: HPC Software Engineer at Johns Hopkins University appeared first on insideHPC.
From Putting People First
[Book] Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking By Richard E. Nisbett Farrar, Straus & Giroux August 2015 Description Scientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively about…
From Putting People First
[Book] The Quantified Self
The Quantified Self by Deborah Lupton Polity Press April 2016 Description With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT CSAIL Feature Set Selection
Another kind of analysis automation. Whereas we might have otherwise used human expertise to choose feature sets. ( Intuition?) I would also ask if this works for all domains. MIT developing a system that replaces human intuition…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Photos
"Terrifying" squid photos. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....