Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2016
From Schneier on Security
How Different Stakeholders Frame Security
Josephine Wolff examines different Internet governance stakeholders and how they frame security debates. Her conclusion: The tensions that arise around issues of security among different groups of internet governance stakeholders…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Practical Uses of AR in Maintenance
Practical case of the use of AR, with some similarity to our investigations before the tech had evolved to this point. Some of the biggest issues, we discovered, where that wearing the devices were cumbersome, say in the hot…
From BLOG@CACM
Database Decay and What To Do About It
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.
From insideHPC
Speakers Announced for Dell HPC Community Meeting at SC16
The Dell HPC Community at SC16 has posted their Meeting Agenda. "Blair Bethwaite from Monash University will present OpenStack for HPC at Monash. After that, Josh Simons from VMWare will describe the latest technologies in HPC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brainspace Data Visualization
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From insideHPC
Argo Project Developing OS Technology for Exascale
Today's operating systems were not developed with the immense complexity of Exascale in mind. Now, researchers at Argonne National Lab are preparing for HPC's next wave, where the operating system will have to assume new roles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking Drive Through Data
Been involved in several drive-through retail analyses. So this is interesting. It is pointed out that this will allow the connect of your car generated data to your Amazon online purchase data. Deserves some thought. In…
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of the Data Scientist Era? Not Right Away.
In Forbes. Insightful article by Margaret Harrist of Oracle. An interesting view of how data science is moving towards becoming automated. Agree this is happening, though the time required and dynamics it will require…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Releases five Data Viz and Storytelling Courses
Following up now ...
Microsoft Power BI team releases courses on data visualization and storytelling by Pradeep
With Microsoft Power BI, data journalism goes beyond data exploration and allows reporters, bloggers, broadcasters…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buckminster Fuller Page
I was brought to the attention of the Buckminster Fuller page of Artsy.net. We had some brief interactions in the 70s about his innovation and architectural design. See my post in 2008 about retrospectives then.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Longer Career Models
A look at exended and multiple careers, from the view of the company and individual.
In the HBR: What Happens When Careers Last 20 Years Longer? by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
From The Noisy Channel
IP addresses might only be accurate to the city level.
But that’s still useful, e.g., for determining that New York Pizza (http://www.nypizza.info/)
From Putting People First
[Book] Org Design for Design Orgs
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Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams By Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner Publisher: O’Reilly Media August 2016, 198 pages Design has become the key link between users and today’s complex and…
From insideHPC
Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre Updates in time for SC16
Intel has announced the availability of Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre* software V3.0.1.3. This maintenance release has the latest CVE updates from RHEL 7.2. Intel also announced a pair of Lustre events coming to SC16 in…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Cancer Moonshot and Beyond
In this video, Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov from the U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration presents: Supercomputing the Cancer Moonshot and Beyond. "How can the next generation of supercomputers unlock biomedical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Keep Your Home Devices from Being Hacked
Apparently yesterday's denial of service attack that brought down a number of key services on the Internet was caused by a distributed denial of services (DDOS) attack. Some are saying this was launched from hijacked home devices…
From Schneier on Security
DDoS Attacks against Dyn
Yesterday's DDoS attacks against Dyn are being reported everywhere. I have received a gazillion press requests, but I am traveling in Australia and Asia and have had to decline most of them. That's okay, really, because we don't…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine for all Trades
Watson as a machine of all trades. Or at least some trades for now. A good view of where IBM has been applying cognitive applications based on the Watson model. Natural to see the currently implemented narrowly defined applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beginners Guide to Convolutional Neural Nets
A beginners intro by a student, about how they work, how they are used and the data required. Nicely explained.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Brands Using Chatbots
I have in the talked some of our efforts about using chatbots for consumer brands. FastCompany more generally has an examination of current brands that use chatbots, including Sephora. Good general design ideas and cautions…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Who is keeping an eye on the tech companies?
A corporation such as Spotify was founded a few years ago by a 23-year-old man, and it now plays a key role in the music industry. YouTube is now the big-boss of music delivery. Had I predicted these things ten years ago, you…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Which Squid Can I Eat?
Interesting article listing the squid species that can still be ethically eaten. The problem, of course, is that on a restaurant menu it's just labeled "squid." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stephen Hawking Opens British AI Hub
Will be interesting to see the varying views of Hawking and colleagues on different aspects of AI. Building these 'Centers' for studying complex and disruptive tech seems to be growing. Following.
Stephen Hawking Opens British…
From The Noisy Channel
Data Recycling
One technique I’ve seen succeed again and again is data recycling. You may be doing it already. If not, you should add it to your toolbox.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sal Kahn on Mastery Based Learning
Sal speaks at TED about mastery-based learning
Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics?…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomic Platforms Evolving
I had not used this precise tag 'Autonomic' before, but it is understandable: How do you fully or partially automate systems that support business process? The definition is broad. And to be clear has been around for a long…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Macy's to RFID Tag Everything
We were early innovators in the RFID tagging space. Saw it expand widely at the case level. I now see this as an area where you can use some of the same learning for the internet of things, The 'thing' here simply announces…
From insideHPC
IDC Breakfast Briefing Returns to SC16 on Nov. 15
IDC will hold its annual Analyst Briefing and Breakfast at SC16. Free for attendees, the event takes place 7:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. "Join IDC industry analysts as they present…
From insideHPC
ORNL Testing Compact “Emu Chick” Memory Server for Big Data
Today Emu Technology announced that it has delivered an Emu Chick Memory Server to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "ORNL intends to study the system for streaming graph analysis applications, sparse multilinear computations, and…
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
GHC16 / Lyndsay Pearson on Valuing Inclusive Game Design
Invited technical speaker Lyndsay Pearson spoke at Grace Hopper this week about inclusive game design. Lyndsay has, as she puts it, grown up with The Sims, having working on the game in various capacities since nearly the beginning…