Communications of the ACM
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November 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chunking and MicroLearning tied to Services
Interesting piece by Steve Cushing. Can this also be translated into services as they are delivered in assistants? And how are they then combined into things that need to get done?Next Genertion Learning, Chunking and micro…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Online Stratagy
Just who is Wal-Mart's future competition? Business model? Evan Schuman examines the evidence." ... When you watch Walmart, you start to wonder where it wants to go with its business model, and whether it has any chance of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmented Reality Keyboard
Projected keyboard. Had seen a similar thing done, showing a keyboard projected on someone's hand. This appears to be more artistically done. Works best if you are already using augmented reality for something else.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at Workplace Automation
A topic covered here for some time. We mean to augment and scale expertise in the form of tasks and jobs. How and why does that occur, and can we predict when jobs will be replaced by capabilities like AI and Cognitive services…
From insideHPC
Smartphone App Keeps You Up to Date on SC15
SC15 has produced a handy Smartphone App for IOS and Android platforms. "Navigating the SC15 site from a phone is difficult, so the SC15 app comes in really handy when you're trying to find a booth number on the show floor."
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Big Data Analysis
In the MIT News. update on their work in this area. The Data Science Machine. (Paper) General scope is impressive.Automating big-data analysisSystem that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms 615 of 906 human…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Sales Engineer at Aspen Systems
Aspen Systems is seeking an HPC Sales Engineer in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: HPC Sales Engineer at Aspen Systems appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Watson Community using Gamification
Continue to be impressed by the progress of Watson Analytics. Here is their community, for both personal and business applications. Lots you can experience and test for free. Seem to be adding a badge based, gamification…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forgetting Organizations
An executive once told us as we sought to create expert systems: " ... You don't want to record and save my expertise, you want to forget it to make room for new creativity ... " . Related, from K@W: Digital Transformation:…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Customer Loyalty
Colleague Damon Ragusa writes:" ... Loyalty is a Behavior. So Start Measuring It Like a Behavior. Customer Loyalty (much like its first cousin, brand equity) is a lot like religion: there are more than a few views on what it…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Squid and Bacteria
Margaret McFall-Ngai studies the symbiotic relationship between squid and the bacteria that live inside them. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Journey Mapping for Digital
This made me think. Could there be a way to map the enterprise, and the customers, and concentrate on their intersection? Might even be interesting to stub in the places for a Sim Enterprise. Digital modeling digital? Knowledge…
From insideHPC
SGI’s CEO Jorge Titinger Recognized as Top 100 Hispanic Leaders in Technology
Today SGI announced that Jorge Titinger, president and CEO of SGI, was named by the Hispanic IT Executive Council to the HITEC 100, a comprehensive list of the top 100 Hispanic executives who excel in their technology careers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Blindness
Good thoughts, in fact even worse, people make a point of ignoring the data. In part because the don't understand it ....Data Blindness: Why We See Data And Don’t Act" ... People can become blinded by data, and large volumes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Building IKEA Furniture
A robot takes on a very small part of assembling a piece of IKEA furniture, comparing the task to the same human interaction. There is still much work to be done.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anonymity Networks
Of consideration, could data be driven through systems like this?Tor Just Launched the Easiest App Yet for Anonymous, Encrypted IM THE ANONYMITY NETWORK Tor has long been the paranoid standard for privacy online, and the TorOn…
From insideHPC
New NAG Service Helps Supercomputer Buyers Make Smarter Decisions
Today the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) announced plans to launch an impartial HPC technology intelligence and analysis subscription service at SC15. Developed in partnership with Red Oak Consulting, the NAG HPC Technology…
From insideHPC
Video: Prometheus Supercomputer from HP Enterprise
In this video, researchers from Cyfronet in Poland describe Prometheus, their new supercomputer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Comprising more than 1700 servers of HPE Apollo 8000 platform and connected by FDR Infiniband…
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast: Spack Package Management Tool
"Spack is designed to support multiple versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of platforms and environments. It was designed for large supercomputing centers, where many users and application teams share common…
From insideHPC
Ethernet Alliance Moves Forward on 25G Technologies
Today the Ethernet Alliance shared details of its recent 25Gb/s technical feasibility event in New Hampshire. With 25Gb/s technologies being driven in part by hyperscale data center and cloud services market needs, the productive…
From insideHPC
Interview: Brent Gorda from Intel on the Keys to Startup Innovation for HPC
"Successful startups are the ones who have knowledge and a strong focus on a problem to solve. Knowledge comes from experience and there is no better way to accumulate that than working at one of the HPC facilities in the US …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Investment on AI in Silicon Valley
Was part of the last surge. Now it is reported that much new is underway, and specifically in Silicon Valley. In the WSJ: " ... The latest example of the heightened interest came on Friday, when Toyota said it was making…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Good Network Design
In the Cisco Blog: Not supply chain networks, which I thought at first, but computer networks. Not usually my world, but had some interesting design ideas. I always liked flow models. Are there some universal network design…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Identifying influential citations: it works live today!
Life has a way to give me what I want. Back in 2009, I wrote that instead of following conferences or journals, I would rather follow individual researchers. At the time, there was simply no good way to do this, other than visiting…
From insideHPC
Critical Requirements for HPC in the Clouds
Users in HPC environments have requirements for using a cloud provider that are different than typical enterprise applications. Learn about the key considerations for ensuring maximum performance for running HPC applications …
From Schneier on Security
Passwords by Mail
Julia Angwin's daughter is selling diceware passwords by mail....
From insideHPC
TACC Speeds Big Data Analytics with Nomadic Computing
Researchers at TACC have developed a new tool to analyze bigger datasets using supercomputers and machine learning algorithms. Called NOMAD, the tool can pull insights from data much faster than other current state-of-the-art…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Times VR App Launches
Will this increase the exposure to VR enough to engage the general public? In Engadget:" ... At a time when virtual reality is changing the way we experience entertainment, it was only a matter of time before news outlets turned…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk- Computer Security and the Internet of Things
The next WATCH talk, called Computer Security and the Internet of Things is Thursday, November 12, 2015 from Noon-1pm ET. The presenter is Tadayoshi Kohno from the University of Washington and the UW Information School. His research…
From insideHPC
Cycle Computing’s Rob Futrick to Keynote DataCloud 2015 in Austin
Today Cycle Computing announced that their CTO, Rob Futrick will be the Keynote speaker at DataCloud 2015, the 6th International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds. The event will co-located with SC15 in Austin…