Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2015
From Putting People First
Interview with Birgit Mager on the evolution of service design
Ayla Newhouse of Adaptive Path interviewed Birgit Mager, President and Co-Founder of the International Service Design Network, on how she got into service design back when it was so new, and how she defines it more than a decade…
From Writing
Running Docker on AWS from the ground up
Docker is an awesome tool. In a previous post, I showed how you can use it to package your code so that it runs exactly the same way in development and in production. But how, exactly, do you run Docker in production? Most of…
From Writing
Running Docker on AWS from the ground up
Docker is an awesome tool. In a previous post, I showed how you can use it to package your code so that it runs exactly the same way in development and in production. But how, exactly, do you run Docker in production? Most of…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Fast Graph Isomorphism Algorithm
While we wait for Laci László Babai just gave his first talk on his new graph isomorphism (GI) algorithm. The photo was taken at the talk and posted by several people. Today we want to discuss his talk, but But we were not there…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning for Computer Vison
Webcast recording. Good introduction. Via Pete WardenHow to Get Started with Deep Learning in Computer VisionThere have been big improvements in image analysis over the last few years thanks to the adoption of deep learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shelf Scanning Robotics
A little scary in the aisles. We sought to re purpose security cameras to do this kind of thing. Also crowdsourced the governance of shelves with cameras. Note the analytics and auditing mentions. Robot Makes Sure Stores Don…
From Schneier on Security
IT Security Is Still a Great Career Path
Jobs are plentiful and salaries are booming. I know from personal experience that demand far exceeds supply....
From insideHPC
DDN Introduces the World’s Fastest Hybrid SSD and Hyper-Converged Storage
Today DDN announced the new DDN SFA14K and SFA14KE high performance hybrid storage platforms. According to DDN, the new SFA14K and SFA14KE deliver the world’s fastest, densest storage with more than 6 million IOPS and 60GB/sec…
From insideHPC
With APEX, National Labs Collaborate to Develop Next-Gen Supercomputers
Today Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, and Sandia national laboratories announced the Alliance for Application Performance at Extreme Scale (APEX). The new collaboration will focus on the design, acquisition and deployment of future…
From The Eponymous Pickle
November December Analytics Magazine on Real Time
November/December Analytics Magazine is now OnlineFrom real-time analytics to data reduction to the ongoing debate over whether humans make better decisions than machines, the November/December issue of Analytics Magazine, now…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
New NIH Prize Competition to Advance Open Science
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has partnered with London-based Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to launch a global science competition for new products to advance “open science,” a movement…
From Putting People First
Why service design is luxury’s new battleground
Ana Andjelic writes in AdAge that most legacy luxury brands are failing at delivering service, especially online: The fact that most legacy luxury brands fail to successfully create and deliver service is unfortunate. The business…
From Putting People First
Why service design is luxury’s new battleground
Ana Andjelic writes in AdAge that most legacy luxury brands are failing at delivering service, especially online: The fact that most legacy luxury brands fail to successfully create and deliver service is unfortunate. The business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing 3D Maps
In MITTechReview: Build a 3-D Virtual World with This Crowdsourced Map of the Real World ... Mapillary is stitching together user-submitted photos to create an ever-changing 3-D map of the planet .... " Good general idea, but…
From Putting People First
For years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong.
Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini are taking their gloves off and accuse Apple of abandoning the fundamental principles of good design: discoverability, feedback, proper mapping, appropriate use of constraints, and, of course, …
From Putting People First
For years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong.
Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini are taking their gloves off and accuse Apple of abandoning the fundamental principles of good design: discoverability, feedback, proper mapping, appropriate use of constraints, and, of course, …
From Putting People First
The science of human behavior is reshaping the US government
In September, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that directs federal agencies to incorporate insights from behavioral science into their programs, in order to help them achieve their policy goals. According to …
From Putting People First
The science of human behavior is reshaping the US government
In September, President Barack Obama signed an executive order that directs federal agencies to incorporate insights from behavioral science into their programs, in order to help them achieve their policy goals. According to …
From insideHPC
Nimbix Speeds Cloud HPC with New JARVICE Platform
Today Nimbix announced the release of its JARVICE 2.0 cloud platform. As Nimbix’s Platform-as-a-Service for big data and HPC applications, JARVICE simplifies compute-intensive engineering/simulation, rendering and analytics by…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nomadic Computing Faster
In the CACM: Nomadic computing speeds up Big Data Analyses. " ... University of Texas at Austin professor Inderjit Dhillon, a 2014 ACM Fellow, concentrates on expediting big data analytics by using machine learning to reduce…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Technological Unemployment Talks
Talks from the World Summit on Technological Unemployment, was on September 15." .... The World Technology Network (www.WTN.net), a community of the world's most innovative individuals and organizations in science, technology…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems to Showcase New Liquid Cooling Technologies at SC15
Today CoolIT Systems announced plans to showcase new server cooling technologies at the SC15 conference in Austin. Exhibiting at booth #163, CoolIT Systems will exhibit an expanded line of heat exchange solutions. Attendees will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Toyota Invests in AI and Robotics
In IEEE Spectrum. Continuation of the AI re-emergence. Talk is interesting regards to the specifics. Location specifics understandable, but I thought by now we could use distributed expertise better. Have followed Toyota…
From insideHPC
CycleCloud V5 Enables Single Dashboard for Major Cloud Service Providers
Today Cycle Computing unveiled the latest version of its flagship product CycleCloud v5. This version contains a number of enhancements including a single dashboard for quickly and securely accessing and managing workloads on…
From insideHPC
Slidecast: Micron Persistent Memory & NVDIMM
"Micron is delivering on the promise of persistent memory with a solution that gives system architects a new approach for designing systems with better performance, reduced energy usage and improved total cost of ownership,” …
From insideHPC
Nvidia Releases Machine Learning Products for Hyperscale Datacenters
“The artificial intelligence race is on,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Machine learning is unquestionably one of the most important developments in computing today, on the scale of the PC, the internet …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How to Teach Coding
Mitchel Resnick, the man behind Scratch and other cool educational tools, runs the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT’s Media Lab. He posted a great article (co-authored with David Siegel) called A Different Approach…
From insideHPC
insideHPC Special Report on HPC Weather Forecasting and Climate Research
In the pantheon of HPC grand challenges, weather forecasting and long term climate simulation rank right up there with the most complex and computationally demanding problems in astrophysics, aeronautics, fusion power, exotic…
From Schneier on Security
Linus Torvalds on Linux Security
Interesting interview. Slashdot thread....
From insideHPC
New GPUs accelerate HPC applications
In the past few years, accelerated computing has become strategically important for a wide range of applications. To gain performance on a variety of codes, hardware developers and software developers have concentrated their …