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 The Eponymous Pickle
Alan Kay Talk on Future of Technology
Alan Kay was an early inspiration to us. Here an overview and link to video:Computer Pioneer Alan Kay Says Tech Industry Ignores The FutureAlan Kay is a computer pioneer, he was part of the the Xerox PARC team of about 30 researchers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Assistant Technology
Today's CSIG Talk: Roberto Manduchi from the University of California, Santa Cruz , who presented “Designing Assistive Technology: A Personal Experience of Trial and Error. ”
From insideHPC
How to Move HPC Forward in Europe
"With a differentiated strategy, sufficient investment, and political will, Europe has what it takes to be a global player and to achieve this ambitious goal. We believe that, with a common effort by all public and private actors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolutionary Computation for Creativity
Nicely done interview regarding evolutionary and genetic methods in O'Reilly. This was an area we explored in the enterprise, but to my knowledge never used practically. We did use neural networks to replace some statistical…
From Computational Complexity
Computation and Journalism Part 2
The theory blogosphere is atwitter with an announcement of a talk next Tuesday at Chicago by László Babai Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time. Luca will blog from the scene and we will have a full report as details emerge…
From insideHPC
DDN Storage Speeds Genome Sequencing at University of Miami
Today DDN announced that the University of Miami’s Center for Computational Science (CCS) has deployed high-performance, DDN GS12K scale-out file storage to speed scientific discoveries and boost collaboration with researchers…
From insideHPC
DEEP Project Unveils 500 Teraflop Prototype
The EU-funded DEEP Project has unveiled their innovative HPC platform: a 500 TFlop/s prototype system that implements a Cluster-Booster concept that has a lot in common with a turbocharged engine. The prototype operates with …
From insideHPC
Accelerated Drug Discovery with Intel Xeon Phi
Drug discovery has accelerated with the advent of high performance computing and new algorithms. "A structural bioinformatics algorithm, eFindSuite, can be used to demonstrate how moving the code to a highly parallel implementation…
From Schneier on Security
The Effects of Surveillance on the Victims
Last month, the Cato Institute held its Second Annual Cato Surveillance Conference. It was an excellent event, with many interesting talks and panels. But their was one standout: a panel by victims of surveillance. Titled "The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Blocks for the Digital Enterprise
In McKinsey: Six building blocks for creating a high-performing digital enterpriseDigitization affects almost everything in today's organizations, which makes capturing its benefits uniquely complex. Here are the most important…
From Putting People First
Customer journey mapping is at the heart of digital transformation
Digital technologies such as analytics, mobility, social networks, cloud computing and the Internet of Things are making old ways of working redundant and forcing companies to transform. According to Raman Sapra, global head …
From Putting People First
Customer journey mapping is at the heart of digital transformation
Digital technologies such as analytics, mobility, social networks, cloud computing and the Internet of Things are making old ways of working redundant and forcing companies to transform. According to Raman Sapra, global head …
From insideHPC
Cray, AMPLab, NERSC Collaborate on Spark Performance for HPC Platforms
Today NERSC announced a collaboration with UC Berkeley’s AMPLab and Cray to design large-scale data analytics stacks. "Analytics workloads will be an increasingly important workload on our supercomputers and we are thrilled to…
From Putting People First
[Conference] Design & The City, Amsterdam, April 2016
Design & The City explores citizen-centered design approaches for the smart city. Central theme is the role of design(ers) to create opportunities and practices for citizens, (social) entrepreneurs and policy makers towards more…
From Putting People First
[Conference] Design & The City, Amsterdam, April 2016
Design & The City explores citizen-centered design approaches for the smart city. Central theme is the role of design(ers) to create opportunities and practices for citizens, (social) entrepreneurs and policy makers towards more…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Artificial Intelligence, Art and Collaboration: Interview with Dr. Kenneth Stanley, UCF
As Computer Science teachers, we can all testify that we have spent hours developing our “hard skills” and using them in the classroom and beyond. Chances are a STEM professional will have been nurtured on computational thinking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Classrooms Broken, so they Need VR
Business Insider and Video:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey thinks that the company's virtual reality headset will eventually make its way into schools, allowing students to learn in new, immersive ways. "Classrooms are broken. Kids…
From Schneier on Security
Analyzing Reshipping Mule Scams
Interesting paper: "Drops for Stuff: An Analysis of Reshipping Mule Scams. From a blog post: A cybercriminal (called operator) recruits unsuspecting citizens with the promise of a rewarding work-from-home job. This job involves…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monetizing a Loyalty Program
Have ridden loyalty programs from the very beginning. With free turkeys at Christmas to getting paid points for just entering the store. What is that data worth? What's next? What works? How about monetizing your loyalty…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Are there some students who can't learn how to code?
Are there some students who can't learn how to code? Mark Guzdial asks that question on his blog and says that “Teachers must always answer "No!"” There is some pushback from teachers in the comments. I think we as teachers have…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Big Result On Graph Isomorphism
Jumping GI down from the nearly-exponential neighborhood to the nearly-polynomial one László Babai is one of the world experts on complexity theory, especially related to groups and graphs. He also recently won the 2015 ACM Knuth…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NYSE Publishes Cybersecurity Guidance for Companies
The New York Stock Exchange and Palo Alto Networks released a free book, Navigating the Digital Age: The Definitive Cybersecurity Guide for Directors and Officers. This handbook provides pragmatic information for CEOs, CISOs,…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Transforms Diagnostic Medical Imaging
In this video, Justin Baba from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory describes how HPC transforms medical diagnostic imaging. “A lot of studies have been published on the impact of detecting or tracking…
From insideHPC
Mellanox EDR InfiniBand Speeds OpenPOWER Platforms
Today Mellanox announced that IBM has selected the company’s ConnectX-4 EDR InfiniBand adapters and EDR 100Gb/s IB switch systems for their new Power Systems LC line of servers designed for cloud environments and high performance…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Frontiers in Science Webinar- Got Data? Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for Data Driven Research
The Office of the Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) invites you to attend Got Data? Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for Data Driven Research as part of its Frontiers in Science…
From Wild WebMink
Azure Loves Linux; What About Microsoft?
The news that Red Hat and Microsoft have reached an agreement about hosting Linux is very welcome. I am delighted for Red Hat here, and see this as a huge sign of the continuing power and growth of open source. It shows that…
From insideHPC
FlyElephant Startup Announces Support for R, Python, and Public API
Today the good folks at FlyElephant announced support for R, Python, and public API for the participants of its beta testing program.
The post FlyElephant Startup Announces Support for R, Python, and Public API appeared first…From insideHPC
DDN to Refresh Storage Product Portfolio at SC15
Today DDN announced plans to refresh their storage product portfolio at SC15 in Austin. "With massively scalable technology able to outpace the performance requirements and growth of Enterprise Big Data while enabling HPC users…
From insideHPC
Paving the Road to Exascale with Co-Design Architecture
In this special guest feature from the Print'n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin, Scot Schultz from Mellanox writes that a new era of Co-Design will pave the way to Exascale. "Exascale computing will undoubtedly include three primary…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Shaking up Jobs
Some interesting examples of business IOT. My electric meter was recently turned into an IOT device." ... After the town of Cary, N.C., installed a water meter system that automatically radios water usage to the public works…