Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2018
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Email
Have read many of these kinds of email use hints, this one notes the need to understand the received tone, good point. While some now believe that Email is over, its not.
Don’t send an email without doing these three things Stephanie…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Breakfast Briefing Coming to Dallas for SC18
Hyperion Research will host their annual Breakfast Briefing at SC18 in Dallas. The event takes place at the Adolphus Hotel at 7:15 am - 9:00 am on Tuesday, Nov. 13. Breakfast will be served at 6:45 am. "We will be presenting
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon's Ad Business Booming
This completely surprised me, from CNBC. What does it mean for other Amazon Channels? Much more stats in the article.
" ... Amazon's ad business is booming. Some advertisers are moving more than half of the budget they normally…
From insideHPC
Learn What to Do Next with Intel VTune Amplifier Application Performance Snapshot
Tuning code has, for a long time, been an art. Knowing what to look for and how to correct inefficiencies in serious numerical computations has not been easy for most programmers. It’s often hard to even know which tool to start…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Joins Blockchain Alliances
In a further indication of their seriousness in the space, Cisco has joined more BlockChain alliances. Ecosystems are key and that is what Cisco is about. They outline why they are doing this:
Why Cisco Has Joined Three More…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Hatches a Portal
Not so much an assistant, but multi person video chat. Still an incomplete idea, the revue says, but with hints it can be enhanced from the hardware. No attempts at skills yet, but basic music too. Not quite sure why Facebook…
From Schneier on Security
The US National Cyber Strategy
Last month the White House released the "National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America. I generally don't have much to say about these sorts of documents. They're filled with broad generalities. Who can argue with:…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Adds Glint
Nice to see additions added to the capabilities of Linkedin. Have long thought there were lots of useful enterprise resources that could leveraged by the quantity and specifics of data here. What will Glint add?
LinkedIn acquires…
From Computational Complexity
A New ACO Center (guest post by Vijay Vazirani)
Guest Post by Vijay Vazirani
A New ACO Center!
Last week, I helped launch an ACO Center (Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization) at my wonderful new home, UC Irvine…
From insideHPC
How HPC can benefit Benefit Society
Sharan Kalwani writes that that one of the main reasons he got into computing long ago was the potential that he saw in using powerful news supercomputing tools towards addressing the needs of the society we live in. "The point…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Whats an Inspector General?
My college roommate writes.
Who you gonna call? Inspectors General. By John F. Sopko in The Hill
In 1984, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd popularized that line – “Who you gonna call?” – from the theme to “Ghostbusters.” In 2018,
While…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Startups aim to Disrupt Consumer goods
Startups shook up the sleepy razor market. What’s next?
NEW YORK (AP) — What do you hate shopping for? Toothpaste? Sunscreen? The guys who founded Harry’s shaving club want to know.
The startup, which took on razor giants Gillette…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Escorting Customers Through Buying Journeys
Like the term 'escorting' here, the details of this view at the link. More common for complex decisions.
Escorting Your Customers Through the Buying Journey
Ben Taylor in CustomerThink
When your customer embarks on the path of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Brand Registry
Saw that Amazon was pushing this concept lately. Also that my former employer, P&G is a participant. What other kind of information patterns can be derived from such registrations? Seems the data has other value once the
Helping…
From insideHPC
HPE Powers New Tesseract Supercomputer at EPCC
Over at EPCC, Professor Peter Boyle describes the new Tesseract supercomputer, which is hosted at EPCC's Advanced Computing Facility. DiRAC is part of the UK’s e-infrastructure investment to improve computing, software development…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamic Programming Methods
Below was given earlier this week, Patrick Madden is developing an APP to analyze problems so you can determine what methods will work well. Below the fold are some technical details about the App and its projected availability…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Splunk Used by Carnival Cruise
Been a while since I have looked at Splunk. But here now, emphasizing data democratization:
Carnival gets data into all hands on deck with Splunk By R. Danes in Siliconangle
If there’s one nugget among the heap of big data tools…
From insideHPC
Cloud and Enterprise Adopting HPC-proven CPU-based Interactive, Photorealistic Rendering
The TACC Frontera supercomputer, which will become the fastest academic supercomputer in the United States when it becomes operational in 2019, will rely on CPUs for visualization. "The ability to run and visualize anywhere with…
From insideHPC
Sylabs Tunes Singularity 3.0 Containers for Machine Learning
Today Sylabs announced that it has released a new version of its innovative container software: Singularity 3.0. With new enterprise-class features, Singularity is now the premier container runtime solution, enabling your company…
From Schneier on Security
Defeating the "Deal or No Deal" Arcade Game
Two teenagers figured out how to beat the "Deal or No Deal" arcade game by filming the computer animation than then slowing it down enough to determine where the big prize was hidden....
From Putting People First
Designing for positive impact and human flourishing
A few days ago Experientia attended the Service Design Days in Barcelona. One of the surprise presentations was by Anna Pohlmeyer, who co-directs the Delft Institute for Positive Design. Although the title seemed a bit airy and…
From Putting People First
IKEA’s fifth Life at Home report
Last week IKEA launched its fifth Life at Home global research report. Every year, the company sets out to understand more about what makes a better life at home by connecting with thousands of people where they live. Ever since…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What Qualifies You to Teach Computer Science?
Several years ago a parent at an open house asked me the question in the title of this post. He seemed happy with the response. My resume is pretty good I think and better now than it was then. These days we are getting a lot…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethink Robotics Shuts Down
We followed this effort for some time, notably the Baxter robot, but it may well depend on how you define collaborative robotics. Where does the task begin and end? How do you train humans to be usefully collaborative? Should…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing Workplace
Technology continues to generate new jobs. The prime question remains application to real world problems. No doubt that such systems are being built. A bit like when we saw neural networks become available in the 90s, and few…
From insideHPC
Video: SCinet Prepares World’s Fastest Network for SC18
In this video, the SCinet team prepares the world's fastest show network for SC18. "With this improved infrastructure in place, SCinet will deliver an anticipated 4.12 terabits per second of network capacity to a million square…
From insideHPC
Data Science Program at Argonne Looks to Machine Learning for New Breakthroughs
Over at Argonne, Nils Heinonen writes that four new projects for the ALCF Data Science Program that will utilize machine learning, deep learning, and other artificial intelligence methods to enable data-driven discoveries across…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alchemy.Codes for eCommerce Experience
Brought to my attention. Via Procter & Gamble Alchemy.codes Much more at the link. Note the mention of the Olay Skin Advisor, which I have written about here. Recall P&G had previously tried startup style initiatives with…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing
Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing, an ACM Celebration Event
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Alexa Redesigns App, Interface
Good idea, the former design, which we used to implement our smart home, was confusing. We will be using the redesign to update a more multi room interaction. Also new uses of better Ring camera integration for security.
Amazon…