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 insideHPC
The High Performance Virtual Computer for Graphics-Intensive Applications
Many industries deploy graphics-intensive applications on single user workstations with individual GPU resources. For those who have switched to a virtualization based environment, many of the legacy desktop virtualization platforms…
From Phys.org Technology News
Mystery swirls around Assange's status at Ecuadorean Embassy
Midway through releasing a series of damaging disclosures about U.S. presidential contender Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his hosts at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London abruptly cut him off from the internet…
From BLOG@CACM
Please Explain
H-index in Web of Science?
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skipflag Rover
Furthers look at workplace bots.
What would you first want from a workplace conversation bot? Reminders of how the current conversation relates to the knowledge derived from previous conversations, documents and analyses. Internal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Workplace Bots
Interesting on state of the art. Slackbots and beyond
Jassim Latif on workplace bots
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Bots that can respond to groups of users.
By Jon Bruner
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Courseware from MIT
Via O'Reilly, ... 22 full-length lecture videos from MIT's OpenCourseWare AI course... " MIT has been known to produce quality, free, technical courseware for a long time. Worth looking at selectively. These address the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science Section 2 and Upcoming Events
Section 2 of The BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science online lecture series, titled Data Representation Overview, starts October 28th with an overview from Anita Bandrowski, UCSD. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Useful Excel Add-ins for Analytics
I have been brought in to clean up after the use of Excel for data storage and analysis. Still, it is unavoidable to address it's use, especially, but not limited to the small business. Here from DSC, a look at useful add-ins…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
K–12 Computer Science Framework Released
After over a year of hard work by a lot of people (I had a small role myself) the K–12 Computer Science Framework is now officially out.
Frankly I expect some criticism. This is computer science after all and we argue more than…From insideHPC
Streamlining HPC Workloads with Containers
"While we often talk about the density advantages of containers, it's the opposite approach that we use in the High Performance Computing world! Here, we use exactly 1 system container per node, giving it unlimited access to
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From insideHPC
PASC17 Conference to Focus on HPC & Precision Medicine
Today the PASC17 Conference announced a track focused on Precision Medicine as Special Topic for Emerging Domains. "Precision medicine, also referred to as personalized medicine, is an emerging domain that is adding tremendous…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Update to my VR bet with Greg Linden
I have an ongoing bet with Greg Linden stating that we are going to sell 10 million virtual-reality (VR) units per year by 2019. I have been paying close attention to VR technology and its impact. What have we learned in theContinue…
From insideHPC
HPC Advisory Council China Conference Returns to Xi’an Oct. 26
The HPC Advisory Council has posted their agenda for their upcoming China Conference. The event takes place Oct. 26 in Xi'an, China. "We invite you to join us on Wednesday, October 26th, in Xi’an for our annual China Conference…
From insideHPC
Thomas Sterling to Present on Runtime Systems Software for Future HPC at SC16
This year at SC16 in Salt Lake City, Dr. Thomas Sterling from Indiana University will present: Runtime Systems Software for Future HPC: Opportunity or Distraction? "As one of the SC16 Invited Talks, this presentation will provide…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand as last Step in Customer Journey
Think with Google presents an interesting and fundamental view of brand in the customer journey.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Processing
Silicon Angle mentions Neo4j and what they are calling graph processing. Good to understand. Will be looking at the reported update. See their introductory piece. Most interested in how this improves the use of data by
What…
From Phys.org Technology News
Researchers study human reaction to sharing control with driverless car
The first trials of the Venturer autonomous vehicle project, a Government backed research project, have focussed on a critical aspect in the field of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top AI Companies
Useful list of companies playing in the space at a number of levels. Considerable variations. Tools, systems, platforms, research. How much is really off the shelf, can be fit into specific business needs? Costs are still…
From The Noisy Channel
The End of Intellectual Property?
Some people fear the singularity. I have a more mundane concern: are we approaching the end of intellectual property?
From Schneier on Security
Virtual Kidnapping
This is a harrowing story of a scam artist that convinced a mother that her daughter had been kidnapped. More stories are here. It's unclear if these virtual kidnappers use data about their victims, or just call people at random…
From insideHPC
PGS Acquires Galois Supercomputer from Cray
"Today’s most advanced seismic survey datasets encompass many hundreds of terabytes, and gaining insight from this data lies squarely at the convergence of supercomputing and big data,” said Barry Bolding, chief strategy officer…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 17 October 2016
Lots of announcements from the Computer Science Teachers Association this past week. We’ll start with them for this week’s links.
2017 CSTA Conference Call for Proposals is now open Really think about proposing a presentation…From BLOG@CACM
Designing the Activities For a 'Computing Lab' to Support Computational Literacy
Developing the teaching techniques so everyone develops computational literacy skills.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Going For Two
Some football wisdom from Dick Karp Cropped from S.I. Kids source John Urschel is a PhD student in the Applied Mathematics program at MIT. He has co-authored two papers with his Penn State Master’s advisor, Ludmil Zikatanov,
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Data Modeling Transforming Concept Maps to IT solution models
Just brought to my attention, good thought to consider the conversion to real value.
Graph Data Modeling: Transforming Concept Maps to IT solution models
by Chief Data Warehouse Architect at SimCorp,Thomas Frisendal
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From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks into the New OpenCAPI Consortium
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new OpenCAPI interconnect standard. "Released this week by the newly formed OpenCAPI Consortium, OpenCAPI provides an open, high-speed pathway for different types of technology…
From insideHPC
HPC: Retrospect & Looking Towards the Next 10 Years
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Spain Conference, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research looks back over the past 10 years of HPC and provides predictions for the next 10 years. Intersect360 Research just released…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2017 CSTA Conference Call for Proposals
The CSTA Annual Conference is my favorite conference for computer science education. I have been privileged to attend most of them over the years. And honored to present at several. This is the conference where people doing …
From Putting People First
Study says aggressive drivers see autonomous cars as easy prey
Aggressive drivers are looking forward to sharing the road with autonomous cars as they believe they can cut in front of them easily. This is how Peter Campbell summarised in the Financial Times one of the key conclusions of
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Analogous Search Leading to Intelligence?
Have always been interested in how analogy can be used, and how it can be used to convince. Much used in advertising and marketing. Certainly something we do as part of what we call intelligence. Now think if this as a wayGoogle's…